Painted landscapes
These are all photographs I’ve taken in my beloved Lake District over the last few years and reworked with a new effect which I found pretty addictive but can’t disclose, not yet anyway. You may of course say it should remain that way, but I rather liked the results and it is my party….
As usual they are being served from my SlideShowPro Director content management system, but I recently heard that they have discontinued the Slidepress plug-in (why is explained here). So instead I am using their Publish mechanism, copying code from Director and pasting it in WordPress. I’m not sure it’s totally reliable and WordPress has a habit of correcting – or rather deleting – the code.
Time to “fess up”. These all use the amazing Oil Paint filter in Photoshop CS6.
As someone who doesn’t “get” the Lake District or usually like any “painterly” type effects I’ll have to admit to be being somewhat surprised to rather like these.
Nice work.
You don’t get the Lake District? Heresy!
Yes, I know, and made harder by the fact that we now have friends with a B&B in Keswick. ;D
The parable of the lost (Herdwick) sheep comes to mind!
;D
That’s a lovely effect. Works really well with organic, natural subjects. I’m wondering how it would work on geometric, abstract, images.
In my view, not so well, and I did try with a range of subjects. People work OK – I’ll post some of them one day.
Fascinating…looking forward to more info.
Hey John, are these your photos or others? There’s some magnificent shots among them.
Thanks, I’m far too vain to use someone else’s pictures!
I love this effect, John. Very dimensional.