Category: editing and effects

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Your best bits.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography12 Comments

Hello, it’s Monday again and time for The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which this week is designed for you to show us something you liked about your photography this year, using the prompt; Your best bits.

I chose to spend some time mucking about with a random selection of shots from the last twelve months, starting with a simple photo of a quiet Barnstaple street and ending up with, well, this…

What were your highlights this year, now is your chance to shine…

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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.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: ‘Tis the season.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography14 Comments

A very happy Monday to you, one and all, from The Cosmic Photo Challenge‘s Christmas grotto of festive images, themed today around the prompt; ‘Tis the season.

For my contribution, here are a few photos of our tree and some illuminated decorations in the dark, with which I did a spot of light painting, inspired by last week’s traffic trails.

How are your holiday preparations coming along, can we have a look..?

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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.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: A cold start.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography8 Comments

Good morning, I hope you’re all refreshed after a couple of days break and ready to face another round of The Cosmic Photo Challenge, this week themed around the prompt; A cold start.

I gave Rhonda a lift to work at 6.30 yesterday morning, so it was still pitch dark (and appropriately, bloody freezing) when I went looking for inspiration, above and beside the roads just outside Barnstaple.

I took several long exposures from bridges and lay-bys, of car headlights passing in the slowly lightening gloom of dawn.

Where did you find your chilled images at the weekend, can we have a look..?

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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.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Art for art’s sake.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography7 Comments

For this week’s mission on The Cosmic Photo Challenge, I asked you to get creative and fulfill the theme of; Art for art’s sake.

Absolute carte blanche to do whatever you like, basically, as all art is subjective and if you say it’s art, then that’s what it is.

I went with a composite image; see if you can spot the elements of 10 previous challenge submissions I’ve added to this autumn scene, including a couple of local graffiti characters I released into the park, from their home in a pedestrian underpass.

Where did your imagination take you today..?

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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.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Let’s hear it for the leaves.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, nature photography, photography12 Comments

This week’s edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge was one last hurrah for autumn colour, photographically speaking, as your theme was; Let’s hear it for the leaves.

I took a stroll round the park yesterday, just as the morning sun was making everything golden. I found some interesting foliage around the war memorial, along with crisp carpets of leaves in every shade of red, orange and yellow.

Now let’s see what you captured for us over 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.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Interesting textures.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography11 Comments

This week on The Cosmic Photo Challenge I asked you to provide images inspired by the prompt; Interesting textures.

I decided to go for the artistic option and transformed three ordinary pictures of a whicker basket, some metal shavings and the grain of a piece of wood…

…into these metamorphic 3D illusions of themselves.

Now let’s see what you cooked up for us this week…

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.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Look to the skies.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography8 Comments

The start of the week always means it’s time for The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which this week is brought to you by the prompt; Look to the skies.

The weather was a bit grey for most of the weekend, but there were a few nice clouds, along with a clear night to take one more long exposure of star trails and some…artistic licence with a rainbow outside work last week.

What did you manage to capture for us this week? Let’s have a look at your pictures, it’s easy when you know how…

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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.