FILTERED PHOTOS FROM THE WELLINGTON WATERFRONT
Oriental Bay is one of New Zealand's most desirable areas, with spectacular views of the harbour, and a short scenic walk along the waterfront to all parts of the CBD.
Now didn't that just sound like something an estate agent would spout before saying that a two bedroom apartment costs $2.8 million?
But fortunately it's free to walk about taking photos, and I often do!
New Zealand has a long history of landscape art - in fact @kiwideb has a famous great great great grandfather, John Gully, who painted watercolour scenes from throughout NZ in the 1870's.
John Gully on Wikipedia
Lake Wakatipu, South Island, New Zealand by John Gully - Image
And right here on Steemit @samuel-earp-art is showcasing his awesome NZ oil paintings - https://steemit.com/art/@samuel-earp-art/bitcoin-art-sale-will-paint-for-bitcoin
Very occasionally I paint something myself, but I don't have anything like the patience or skills to paint anything realistic. Truth is I just want vivid colourful action as fast as possible, but if I could turn some of my photos into paintings I would.
Lately I've been playing around with more photo effects, and taking things a bit further than I've been able to do in the past just using Photoshop.
I'm not sure what photos that have been tweaked into outer space are classified as, but I'm going to call then "Filtered Photos". I really like this style and plan to do a lot more of it.
Pictures by @sift666 were taken using Canon Cameras and edited in Adobe Photoshop CS6 on a HP computer and also on a Samsung tablet using Snapseed and Deep Photo Art .
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very nice - these are awesome but then so are you :)
Thanks for you complimentariness :)
ohhh that's looks great !!
Glad you like them! :)
Keep it up I like the look. I think they are unique enough to sell.
Wonderful post and narrative. Thank you for sharing!
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Thanks for the resteem
Great photo effects.
How about filtered photos rather than art photos?
Good idea - will do
The photos look amazing with the filtering, now you just need to ask the real estate agents for your commission lol.
Didn't know there was a steemit kiwi page will check it out.
Thanks - we have only just set up the Kiwi page, and will hopeful getting it ticking along
Great Art work! I think it IS art work..because...first, you have to decide on the photo, how you want to take it, what you want in it..then you have to decide on the filter effects, no doubt you tweak it about (I've never done it) until YOU are happy with your final "Piece" See?...art!!! I think your work looks awesome, hey and so does Kiwidebs Great x 3 Grandfathers watercolour. Great post :)
Thanks - yes it takes a lot of playing around to get the hang of it - I'm running 6 programmes with about 500 different filters in total - but once you know what one to use it is very quick
The free app I recommend is Snapseed - brilliant app and totally free with no ads.
But I couldn't do these pics just using that alone
Your market post was awesome!
Wow I love this piece, oh and thanks :)
Amazing posts and wonderful Photos @sift
Thanks - I'm having fun with these effects!