listing whisk

for the artist challenge... create a photo in the style of Jackie Rankin
http://365project.org/discuss/themes-competitions/20566/new-artist-challenge-jackie-rankin

you can see some of her gorgeously whimsical work here:
http://www.jackieranken.co.nz/Portfolio/tabid/143/AlbumID/576-17/Page/1/Default.aspx

OMG! this was HARD to do, and i'm not sure I've quite "got" it... although i expect i learned quite a bit in photoshop along the way...

so - this started out as a fairly silly ordinary shot of the whisk in the icy snow in my backyard... then i:

-- processed from RAW in lightroom
-- converted to black and white in silver efex (this was tricky for me... she doesn't go for quite the same level of contrast as i am used to doing, so it was difficult to know what would be *right*)
-- back in lightroom, tweaked contrast a bit, and added the sepia-ish toner to both shadows and highlights
-- then to photoshop where i added some texture layers (all photoshop)
-- then i had to do the freakin' frame... had i thought about it, i would have done it in silver efex - photoshop does not seem to have any preset frames... first i increased the canvas size to get a white border all around the image... then i tried to paint it on using various paintbrushes and blending modes and who-all knows what else... i finally gave up, created a blank canvas which i took into silver efex to add a preset frame and then layered it on top of the image using multiply... i then duplicated the frame layer twice more because it really didn't seem dark enough and i couldn't think what else to do...

and here it has ended up... a rather silly shot attempting to emulate the style of Jackie Rankin...

thanks for all the lovely favs and comments on my various foggy shots... :)

[Karen H]

That's a lot of back and forth

[☠northy]

@tigerdreamer i know.... heaven forbid i should take the happy path!

[Kerri]

Awesome shot

[Hope D Jennings]

Super cool.THANK you fir sharing how it was done!

[Maggiemae]

Sounds a lot of work - I'll probably stick to eggs!

[Nancy]

Well done...lots of time! .glad to know about the preset frames in PS..I have been looking ...enjoyed your bio too!

[Ken "Tasian"]

Great narrative on how you got this neat shot.

[Call me Joe]

♥♥♥

[Trinda Love]

Wow, what a process, it does wind up looking like her shots, great job

[Taffy]

Amazing processing! Good homage to Rankin.

[Mike Gifford]

Northy, I'm with you. I've done two Ranken compositions and both have been an edit marathon! Nice job on this one!

[Shanne]

wow, that's really cool processing - I keep meaning to look at this - there are preset frames in GIMP that might do this

[Melissa Bailey]

blimey that is a lot of editing! Well done though, the end result was worth it, great shot!

[Disha Parekh]

How cool. Thanks for telling us how you did this. I'm going to come back in a week and try to copy you so I learn a thing or two about photoshop!

[Penny Price]

Great POV and DOF. Brilliantly processed.

[Lisa Pouncy]

Looks great to me. I ought to make more effort and try out more of these challenges but always seem to be chasing my tail right now! xx

[Channelf]

Lovely result. I too learn a lot when trying these challenges, that's what's good about them !

[Carly]

I really like the end result good job :)

[Katie]

Really love this! Thanks for the direct link too, to give the context (since I'm lazy). Love the whole editing story as well. Super cool.

Now I want to go build a forkhenge!

[Michael Elliott]

How'd it get there? Great outcome for challenge.

[Nicole]

That is very cool!!

[❀ Lynn]

Great job! I am impressed with what you went thru to get there.

[Kitti Nelson]

Amazing amount of effort but well worth it - & thanks so much for the link.