June 2022 – Impressionist.

OK, these are not really impressionist images. These are experiments with different approaches to creating interesting effects. Some ended with an impressionist style.

This is a combination of blur effects on the background with a mask around the sunflower in the front to create separation.

Multiple exposure of a poppy

A combination of vertical motion blur and a luminosity mask so it doesn’t get applied to highlights creates a striking effect on snow scenes.

Spring colors are emphasized using a blur effect with a color range mask to limit where it is applied. The blurred purple flowers stand out in contrast to the sharper veins on the leaves.

These leaves also use a blur combined with a color range mask to pull out the colors of Fall.

Sunset in Nova Scotia becomes more dramatic with a horizontal blur combined with a HDR effect.

A combination of a blur in one layer and luminosity mask in another creates this view of a cemetery in the Fall

The following images all combine blur and HDR effects to make a painterly style starting with this hut on a hill in Nova Scotia.

Flower on a Wall

Footbridge

 

Irish Fields

Balloon

 

 

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