It’s a trawl through the archives this week on The Cosmic Photo Challenge, after a bout of festival nostalgia inspired me to set the prompt as; Music on film.
Here’s a small selection of the many images of musical folk I’ve captured over the years.
Where did your musical muse lead you at the weekend?
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I thought the weather was turning against me at the weekend and getting out into The great wide open might have been more of a Cosmic Photo Challenge than usual, but yesterday the sun returned after a foggy start at the local vineyard.
By one o’clock it was roasting hot and I drove up to the wind farm on top of the river valley, where panoramas really are the only way to do the view justice. I was rather pleased with capturing four moving turbines in a single long exposure shot, plus I caught a couple of nice reflections.
Where in the great outdoors did you seek inspiration at the weekend..?
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Good day to you, wherever you may be, I hope you managed to have Fun in the sun at the weekend, to give you material for The Cosmic Photo Challenge today.
I took a walk around the local funfair, which has been in town for a couple of weeks, to try some experiments with long exposure pictures of the various spinning and undulating rides.
Also, because music is never far away from my weekend itinerary, I used a timelapse video of the fairground to provide a visual accompaniment to one of yesterday’s peculiar sonic adventures.
Now let’s have a look at your fun weekend…
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Hello there, welcome to this week’s special bank holiday Monday multimedia bonus edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which today is inspired by the prompt; I’ll see you in the trees.
Our run of extraordinarily fine weather in the UK continued right through the weekend, so early yesterday morning I took tranquil walk around Venn Quarry Woods in the already warm summer sunshine.
You, too can enjoy a moment of peace and quiet in this woodland wonderland, complete with relaxing birdsong, via the embedded Instagram player below.
I had quite a musical weekend (what with the release ofmy new album of original material), including making this glitchy electronica audio-visual piece, incorporating the birds of Venn Quarry Woods on vocals.
I’m sure you have some tree-mendous photos to fit the bill, so why not join in, it couldn’t be easier…
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Monday always brings opportunities, the main one being the opportunity to share your pictures with us on The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which today is on the theme of; Circle/Square.
I don’t mind telling you I’ve been very lazy this weekend and I sat in the sunshine with a book almost the whole time, from where I could see the beautiful circular bloom of our first rose.
There were also some strangely angular flowers (some plants may have been harmed in the making of these photos) or maybe it was just me and my square eyes…
How did your weekend shape up? Why not join in, it’s easy to do…
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Oh well, it might be Monday again, but at least that means it’s time for The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which is inspired this week by the prompt; Lighter mornings/longer evenings.
I have a couple each from each end of the day, along with one of me getting legless in the garden yesterday evening.
Mornings…
…and evenings.
Now let’s see what you captured for us this week…
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
It’s Monday again and time to get creative for The Cosmic Photo Challenge, because this week’s theme is; Art for art’s sake.
I always enjoy a bit of mucking about, so I spent a couple of very pleasant, zen-like hours yesterday, making this single composite image.
Where did your artistic muse take you at the weekend?
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Hi there, I hope you’ve all had a good weekend and are ready for The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which this week is based around the prompt; Out in the country.
I’ve had a fairly creative couple of days (the result of which can be seen on Return Of The Internet Nobody) and in the process of making the audio visual treats you’ll find over there, I had an idea…
Having shot a long video of a drive in the country (with the camera in a windscreen-mounted holder, safety fans), I realised I could use the frame capture feature to produce photos for today’s challenge.
These were edited for artistic effect, partly because some of them were a little blurred, but they came out surprisingly well.
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Just because I could, I shot a timelapse video of the return journey, shrinking the 20 minute drive down to 35 seconds. This worked fine, but it was very fast and I decided to slow it down with one of my video editing apps, which I noticed had a new “smooth slo-mo” button and I do love a gadget, so…well, of course I tried it.
Now, the feature is supposed to reduce or remove the jerky effect you sometimes get when slowing video right down, by artificially transitioning the frames more smoothly from one to the next.
But the poor old software doesn’t know I’ve given it a timelapse video to smooth out, with maybe a hundred yards traveled in between each individual photo, so it tries as hard as it possibly can to streeeeeeeetchh each frame and join them up.
The resulting warping, concertina effect immediately brought to mind a “boing” noise, so I quickly added an appropriate soundtrack and voila!
What did you capture in the countryside this week?
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
For this week’s theme on The Cosmic Photo Challenge I asked you to capture images which featured; Straight lines.
Once you start looking, the straight edges and outlines are all around you, so I thought I’d go for the mundane with an artistic twist.
Now it’s your turn to demonstrate some linear precision, let’s see whatcha got…
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
This week’s edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge is brought to you by the prompt; Intentional camera movement.
There are many ways in which moving the camera mid-capture can alter the resulting image, so I decided to think outside the box and revisit a couple of techniques I’ve used before.
With the camera attached safely to my windscreen, it was certainly moving in relation to everything outside; while experimenting with mirrors and panoramic settings again was…well, predicably peculiar.
Now it’s time to share your out of focus fun…
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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.
Tag your posts with #CosPhoChal.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
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