Hi Luke^^.
Just wanted to write something here^^lol... so, welcome to the site^^.

Nice Icon^^.
I will wait patiently to discover Minesota through your photos^^ and of course,your next pieces of work^^

see ya

Hey Cain. Thank you for looking at all my stuff (not that it's that much). My pictures aren't worth your time yet, but your comments are like publicity for me. It still hasn't snowed to much here and the leaves have all fallen, so it may be a while longer for the pictures. I am not a great photographer and wasn't planning on posting those pictures online, but I suppose I could try. Thanks for the inspiration and help.

hey Luke^^

it's good to see you around again^^

thanks for your indefectible support Luke!^^

glad you're going to show us Minnesota^^. thanks for fulfilling my selfish wish^^ lol


to answer your question, I think it's up to you... if you think your shots need to be manipulated. maybe you could test the levels in photoshop, brighten some pictures a bit if they're too dark, and play with black and white picture? I don't really know what subject you choose to shot precisely (sunset, trees, landcape, building?)... you could upload some untouched and some reworked...

can't wait to see them though^^

take care luke

see you

-Lucy

Hi Luke - thanks for the kind words you left on "Circuit bored". It's appreciated :-)

In answer to your question I like to view as many images as poss just to give everyone a fair opinion plus it beats actually working

Hello! The base picture for Green Velvet was actually a very close picture of the inside of a unique looking flower. The picture came out much too blurry so I altered it a bit, and then, knew where to take it. That was the final pic. Thanks for the interest.

Thanks for the compliments. I'm glad you like my work.

Thaks for the comment on Wacky. I appciate it.

Thanks for your compliments on "Reflection". I'm glad you liked it!
Greetz, Mia

Thanks for commenting on Soul Mate :D

Thank you for the comment on "Speaking Words of Wisdom III". But how do you mean repetitive? As in it is the same sky just at a little different angel as "Speaking Words of Wisdom II"? Or repetitive as most of my pictures on this site are of skies?

Thanks Luke for comment "Fleur soleil"

Well Lucy, I haven't manipulated any photos yet, so right now you have a clean look of the nature in Minnesota. Thanks for your advice though, much appreciated.

Thanks Kyle, you had me wondering a bit. Still a nice image.

And Sean, I meant repetitive as in many pictures are of the sky and clouds. All are beautiful, but they are very much similar. Different weather, angles, or time of day would change much of that, so I am not saying give up on the sky. Just try to make more of your images distinguishable from eachother. I like the natural lense flairs greatly, I have taken a few pictures of those myself, but through trees.

Thanks for your comments on "Richard Burns"....much appreciated.

Mike

Thank you for the nice comment on -orchid-.Very much appreciated,Luke.

lol, thanks for the info, Luke :) I will most likely still not have a band by the time they move to Canada (hmm, that's kinda sad isn't it.... have to keep going solo :p)

Anytime, Mike and Joost.

The problem is, Raluca, that I don't think they ever will move there...

That's exactly my point :p

Thanks for the comment on my sun picture :)

Luke, Thanks for taking the time to comment on Steel Ripple. I appreciate it and am really glad you liked it :)

:) I'm glad you liked the pic. And yes, I did add some saturation, but only beacause I had to resize the it. Other than that its all natural lighting, ect. Thanks!

Luke, thanks for the feedback on "Silhouette", it's always appreciated!

Thanks Luke for your comments on «The sky is on fire».
No filters, just edit.
Cèsar

Thx for your comment on arachnafobia

It was sitting there for ages so I tryed my luck and took my camera. It was at night so I had to flash. Not easy trying to shoot a macro on a white wall using the flash. I'm afraid of spiders, but my will to make a nice picture was stronger. Every time it moved a few inches I died. Maybe its theraphatic, making photo's of something your afraid of.

Its not that big, only 2 inches (5 cm) all together.

Hey Luke. Thanks for the comments on "Mother Mary Comes to Me" Im glad you liked it. THe white things are clouds from the original I thought they looked cool like that.

Thanks for looking at "Cute but shy" and leaving a comment, Luke. The leaves weren't wet, but when they're young and soft like this they have a waxy appearance which reflects the light. As they age they get harder and darker. Thanks for your interest :-)

Thanks Luke, for the awesome comment to; 'Horse Statue', I really appreciate your support to my work. Thanks again, my friend :)

Sup luke! lol, ya, 'twas grainy overexposed, but I can't figure out how to change the res. settings on my cam :-/ O well, and I said this on the pic, but here it goes anyway! It's not what's near you, it's how you capture it

thanks for the comment on "flaming tyrant" luke.. much appreciated

thanks for the comment on my reflections of a summer day, that was one of my photos that was good to begin with haha

Helloo. Thanks for your comments on "Alive." I do see where you are coming from. Thank you for taking a look and giving me some pointers. It is appreciated.

Thanks, Luke, for your comment on "Horse Crossing for Signpainter - Rework 1" - It's appreciated.

thanks for your comment .

Hi Luke,I am glad that you liked "Greystone" and thanks alot.

Hello Luke: Thank you for your comments on “Just Visiting”. I love soft focus; it gives the image a very dreamy look. Some images work well that way others it ruins.

It was left, slightly bright to emphasize the warm early daybreak lighting. Some like it some don't, either way that's OK!

Are the black bands around the edges distracting? I don't know if it works or not. For me it works: As I shoot 35mm, if you crop and resize the image, it loses some of its impact (I do all my cropping in camera). So I decided to stick to the original film size on a black background. Also the black edges on a vertical image give you the room to put your program icons into the black and have no impact on the image itself.

Thanks for your comments on "Heavens Chrous" Luke! I agree that it does look a little busy, I'll keep that in mind next time.

Thanks for taking a look at "Escape from the City"... I know it's small and tend to agree it's abit busy. Thanks for the input.

thanks for your comment on "bulletin". the image was very small to begin with so I had to englarge it at the best resolution I could. I'm actually still playing with it a little. I got the name "bulletin" because it almost looks like there are liquid metal bullets in the picture. and that was the first word that popped in my mind.

Hi Luke. I will treasure the comments you just left me about my gallery. That was very kind and meant a great deal to me. In fact, with so much disappearing I've decided to copy and paste my favorite comments into a folder on my HD. It is important to me to do my own thing and not fall into the trap of doing it for others or copying someone else's successful style. I won't enjoy my art near as much.

Hi Luke. Si is just an abbreviation of Simon - it saves 3 keystrokes every time I type it - so it's pronounced the same (i.e. "sigh"). I started using it years ago when a crowd of us had t-shirts made up with our names on - at 12p a letter it was 36p cheaper than my full name, enough for a pint of beer in those days.....

thank you for your comments and advice on "Wildflowers"

Hey! Thanks for commenting on the 3 pics :D To answer you're question on Another View, that's actually my camera. I couldn't edit it out lol, but thanks for the compliment! I love Cain's work, so that's very (VERY) big to me :D Thanks again Luke!

Thanks for your wonderful comments on mountain scape...hope to do better on the water as I learn more..but for now...that was one of my first attempts and as you saw not to good on the water...

TokenArt

Thank you for your very nice comment on "My Photo" :)

Hey Luke, it's so sweet of you to put links to my profile in your messages, thanks a bunch!!

*cough* sarcasm

...I feel so loved...

As you should... thank you for fixing that

Tks Luke, I am glad you liked the angel.
JuneBug

Is it just me, or am I sensing hostility? I didn't mean any harm... (not you, June)

Thanks for your comment and suggestion on "Paintwork and power", Luke - the close-cropping to confuse the eye was deliberate, but I appreciate it may not work for everyone :-)

I read your comments about " Left behind" ...That is the way i wanted the picture to be...
I understand that there are thousand ways you can take footprints on the beach..this was my contribution..you are welcome with your version anytime...Thanks for stopping by!

It's so hard to tell which comments you're referring to...but no, in that last one no hostility was intended...

Hi again, and thanks for your comment and vote on "Bluelily". I kept the manipulation as simple as possible, to give it a "real" look - glad you liked it that way :-)

thanks for the nice comment on "liso y sedoso"... i don't use paint lol.. i use corel photopaint with kpt 5 plugins.. glad you liked it

Hey Luke! here's what i posted in respose to your comment on my self-port : lol, well thank you for the encouragement, that last part you added made me laugh :-P I'm hoping to get a better close up eventually, but school, drawing, and sports have made it difficult to make time lol (main reason I haven't been posting much lately)

Hi Luke. You obiously are a talented photographer and a fan and creator of skyscrapes. So you might want to take a look at my gallery if you want for I have many skyscrapes. My most famous is the "Speaking Words of Wisdom" series eseically the first one. Anyway keep up the good work.

Yeah don't get me wrong I liked the enviroment too ..just not as much with the fancy car. I thought that the car would just look better in the places I said. ..and: Ohhhhhh yeah I thought that was like your mom or dad's car. But i guess it is ..at some place that sells cars? ..because it looked like a garage. ..i dont know.

Sorry, not that rich...although I would love to own a Lambo.

Hey Luke. Thanks for your opinion on "The River of Styx". Yeah I know that the water isnt that clean ..but there's not much i can do about that, and I don't have Photoshop to "make" it clean. haha. thanks!

Also thank you for the comment and advice on "My Guitar". Yeah I probably would ..unfortunately I don't think taking a Line 6 mm9 model guitar and making it that color would be ..perfectly legal. Haha. Thanks for the advice ..though I don't think I agree with you on the guitar being centered. It is just like a centimeter off. ...oh well. And I did take many different shots that day of the guitar there ..in all different veiws.

and for the comment on "Within". yeah it was little contrast adjustments. I'm glad you liked it. and I really appreicate it. thanks.

hey luke, its always nice to see a new display picture appear on my work :) im glad you like my "sea cows" thanks for the comment:)

Thank you Luke for your commenting on ..Fly Brook...See any flies?

Hey Luke, thanks for your comments on Autumn Days, glad you liked it. I'll have to come back and check out your gallery when I have more time...take care.

Thanks for the nice comment on "Hazy purple twilight" Luke, glad you like it :)

lol thanks for the comments on "Alien Grass", I don't think I would want to know what kind of place would sustain something that looks like that ;)

Hey Luke, thanks for your comments on «Negative».
César

Anytime... And yes, Rob, I did manage to find the flies. :-)

No problem, Luke. I might have come down too hard in retrospect. Appreciate your thoughts, and of course no apology is necessary.

Thanks alot for your comments on "A CHILLING DISCOVERY"...no, I don't mind if you try some shots like this...I actually believe it could be done better than this, with Jack Frost's help, of course, so good luck with it...besides, I'd rather see the cold weather show up in your city than mine! (hehe)Thanks again. : Pat.

Thanks for your comment on "Treetop Birds", Luke! The lighting was manipulated slightly to make the area beyond the birds darker and give a slightly fuzzy effect to the trees. There was a huge storm front rolling in when I took the photo, so it didn't require too much manipulation :) Thanks for making room in your faves! Glad you like my new icon :)

hi thanx for the comment on "lights on but..." i just took a photo of 1 of the lights on my front room(withe the light on) using the sepia setting on my cam then using photoshop cs
added another sepia filter and tweeked with the rgb levels towards the red end and using the healing tool edited out the light bulb .to create a pic that at first glance looks normal but not normal at the same time

i am glad you like it


... a moment doubt is a lifetime of pain..

Hey Luke :) Thanks for the comment and crituqe! I was waiting for someone to give me tips lol, cuz I've been wanting to do another one of that, but wasn't sure exactly what to do. Thanks for the tips :)

Thanks Luke for viewing and commenting on my Green Spider photo. Don't be afraid, he's only about 1/4 inch long and won't bite hard. Sleep tight!
Russ

Geez Luke, thanks for complimenting my "Acid Breeze." I am a little surprised that you liked it that much, but Im really excited about it now. Thanks!

thank u for the comment on my ping pong table image, i am glad u liked it :)

Thanks for noticing my image. I appreicate it.

Hey thanks for the comments on "The Future", and "Mysterious Beginnings 2". The Future came out a little blurry, a little disappointing, but I appreciate your support--Thanks :)

Thanks for commenting on my pictures! They are very welcome as I dont get many of them usually... :D

Thanks for checking out (More Than Meets the Eye), Luke. I'm sorry I don't really have any better advice for seeing the spider, those things just wreak havok on some people's eyes. The program is pretty easy to use I think, but it would surely be much more difficult if you were unable to see your own creations. The tricky part about the program is tweaking it to get an image that really stands out in 3D, as opposed to one that just technically works. It's nice that it lets you provide all the texture pattern yourself (like I did on this one) or use some default ones if you prefer. Maybe you'd have better luck spotting one of these things if you made it yourself and knew exactly what you were looking for. Good luck!

Thank you for commenting on Blue Eyes, I appreciate it alot...

hey thanks a lot for the great comment on "dedication".. the image was originally supposed to be a regular, cool looking desktop, but when i rendered that dark "squiggly" fractal, i noticed it looked like a heart in the middle of it.. immediately i thought of her, so i then changed the colors to a lighter soft shade. glad you like it ;]

Thanks for the comment on "Orange Soda", I'm glad you liked the image and gave me suggestions.
Cheers! :D

Thank you for the nice comment on "Mercury Matrix", Luke:-)

Tks Luke for your comments on ~~friends~~
JuneBug

thanks Luke, for your comments on "at the edge...". very much appreciated.

lol, no it's not really that... it's just because it's hard for me to explain in another language the way I work. My programs are in frensh and it's really difficult to find the correct term or word used in the english version of photoshop. So you see, more a bit of technical problem than something else. I'm seriously thinking about having an english version of PS, it would be easier this way.

But I'm going to try to explain anyway... tell me if it's not very clear :

first I duplicate my photo two times and use a different blur on each ( a motion and gaussian blur) then use the blend mode and play with the opacity to find something I would like.

Then I add a 'gradiant color' layer to have these green tone.
another layer for one of the sky shot I took this past winter, then blend it with the forest shot.

And finaly, I add a new layer and use the brush to light some part of the shot, and another one to darken in black the different side of the pic...

This is, mostly, what I did^^

Yes! It’s incredibly important. At 100%, it's a bit harder to see the difference as a whole, but the before and after (full images) look way different. The images out of the camera tend to be a bit dull or flat looking, and a bit soft (not out of focus though).

The icon lens is not the same one from the tutorial, that’s just a 70-200mm. The icon photo came from a football game last night that I shot using a 400mm lens. They are pretty absurd, they weigh 14 lbs (which is alot for just a lens!) and you can not shoot without a monopod, they are just too heavy.

Thank you Luke for the nice comment on "Over the Rise". I appreciate all the feedback I can get;-)

Thanks Luke for the nice comment on "plane trees",much appreciated.In my gallery I didn't change any photo with photo shop. I do have it, but prefere natural.

Hi Luke tks for commenting on High Speed Chase. Not really my thing to take pictures of however perhaps one day I will attempt it again keeping in mind your suggestions.
JuneBug

Hi Luke! Thank you so much for your great support on both versions of "Annabel Lee" I really appreciate your comments and am really glad you enjoyed them. I had such a great time putting these together and am so pleased that they have been so well received. I would love to win the contest, but at this point, even if I don't I'll be happy just because of all the great feedback. Thanks so much! :)

Thanks very much for the comment on 'X'; I'm glad you liked it! You're right; I used Photoshop. (Well, actually, I used Adobe PhotoDeluxe, also known as 'Photoshop for cheap people'.)

Hey Luke :) Thanks for commenting on my pics! I'm glad you liked um all. lol, your comment on the fire pic made me laugh ;) good to hear from ya

Hey again! I used the Gimp to make that fractal. It took a while actually but i was happy w/ how it turned out. Thanks!

Thank you soo much for your comment on "Nice View" Luke, Really appreciate it.. You can recommend it to whatever you want :) Thank you for asking :D

Yes there is significance to my screen name but that might reveal something, ask me again later, prononced Ze- zicks with a soft e.

Hi Luke! Thanks for the kind remark on "Oncorhynchus tschawytscha". Much appreciated:-)

... and also thanks for your message on "Shimmer" :)