My family and I went to the St. Louis Zoo yesterday. It was the first truly springlike day of the year -- so I brought my camera. I photographed many of the animals, although I had no intention of using any in my fine art photography. I also photographed some ornamental grasses, which do have potential as fine art.
It was the prairie dogs, however that gave me a subject to play with in PixelBender. PixelBender is a plug-in available for free download from Adobe. It gives you the option of adding paint-like effects. More work is still needed in Photoshop to achieve a finished look, but it give a great start on a fun project. It's certainly not fine art, but it's a picture that could be printed to canvas to please any prairie dog lover. Be sure to click on the image to get a better view of the brush strokes.
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As for the ornamental grass, it begs for a black&white sepia treatment.
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You can view my website at:
http://www.tombellart.com/.
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