Best viewed large. This shack always enthralls me when I drive past it on the way to work. This time I went just to capture it. This is my fist time experimenting with filters. I used the watercolor one. I'm thinking it is a bit overdone. What do you think? And is there a way in Elements that you can dial it down a bit?
What a great place! I like the processing - it looks like a screen print. I think you can either make the layer transparent or (I tend to do it this way because I can't remember where the transparency control is) you have the normal photo underneath the effect layer and then set the eraser to large size and make it say 25% strength and then erase your layer until you get the effect you want. Be careful because every time you re-click and go over it it will erase another 25% so unless you want a variable effect hold your finger down until it's all erased once over and then start again if you want to make it less again. Hope that makes sense.
Does the building just sit on top there? How cool? (I really thought I commented on this already... don't know what happened. And I thought I was following you... weird. .... Unless you are trying to avoid me! HAHA!)
I have a few pics of this bridge; it's quite photogenic in its deteriorating state. (tho it appears the rail line is being fixed up again?) Nice capture, and fun processing!
it may be... it loses a bit of the photo and becomes more like a drawing. I guess it all depends on what you intended. the way I see is that your pic needs to please you first... if you feel like it could have been too much then try a different editing with less watercolor effect... until it pleases you.
I think I know this place. Please help. A couple years back, when visiting the kids in Eugene, I was given the day off, and drove to the coast.
I do not remember the river, though I think it began with an S, nor the coastal town I landed in, but I did have a great bowl of chowder. I do remember there was a great lighthouse a bit up the coast... But I never made it... Had to get back to Eugene!
@hown You are right. This is in a place called Cushman between Eugene and Florence. The river is the siuslaw. The lighthouse features in several of my photos. Sadly it is now losed for repairs for the next 1 1/2 years! Hope I can still photograph by then! Fyo, I come from the north east...grew up in Cambridge and went to grad school in Ct
@jgpittenger We are practically neighbors... sort of! Siuslaw, that's it. Florence, that's it! What is the name of the light and the big restaurant that had the chowder? Mo's? I was looking for the images from that trip... no luck! Yale? Wesleyan? Trinity? Conn? Where are you?
@jgpittenger ... They own a home whcih is in Eugene and rented. They are now both (daughter & son-in-law) living and working in Portland (for just about a year) and trying very hard to pry us out of Connecticut. Grand daughters (five and one yr) might just get us there faster. Your image awakened some tired gray cells... many thanks for that! Next time I am in the city of my birth, I'll do a walk around the campus and send you some shots. Not much has changed.
@jgpittenger Yes... Before Yale New Haven Hospital was Yale New Haven Hospital!!! Would love to go shooting with a native (almost). The kids are working on us to make the lifestyle change and it could be sooner than later! Would you share contact info? hsn324@gmail.com
I do not remember the river, though I think it began with an S, nor the coastal town I landed in, but I did have a great bowl of chowder. I do remember there was a great lighthouse a bit up the coast... But I never made it... Had to get back to Eugene!