4 Creative Photography Ideas
Simple Alluring Post Processing Creative Photography
Creative is what YOU call creative, not what someone else does.
Your result could be a simple change, something utterly strange or merely alluring.
You may have seen my previous post 5 Intriquing Creative In Camera Photography Ideas – With Detailed Photos.
In post processing creative work, however, you have virtually unlimited options of what you can do.
My interest in this realm started by accident. My first “creative” photo was a night shot I took of Kennebunkport Harbor in Maine. In post processing I changed the sky to daylight and left the harbor and boats in night time. It was so subtle that NO ONE saw what I did.
I did take to the idea however. My first real success was the modification of a photo of a artist’s studio in Asheville, NC. This was a three story building, with a stairway on the side. See original and changes.
I do not always know if I want to change a photo, but, often shots like this one, or stairs, walls and chairs are photos I take with a creative idea in mind, thought I do not necessarily know exactly what.
One concept for creative post processing is to see what you can ADD or REMOVE from a photo to make it unique.
In this case I saw the dark spot vaguely near the center of the photo and decided to ADD something there (I am a great fan of PS Paste Into). I tried a car, but it was too small. I tried a coffee cup, a mirror and lightning bolt. As I said before, I am not always aware of exactly what would please my eye.
Speaking of eyes . . . that seemed to work for me.
A bit more involved was my NY Times Square Toast
I started with a so so photo of Times Square, NY.
I reworked the basic photo to be a bit more appealing.
- Changed the sky
- Added color and saturation
Then I
- Put in a cutout of a glass of wine
- Duplicated that glass to a new layer and rotated it 45 degrees
- Played with opacity of the rotated wine glass
And arrived at the following.
Sometimes, creativity is just a matter of changing the look and feel of a photo.
Below is a NYC Skyline, with the Brooklyn Bridge, from Brooklyn Park
For this photo I tried several options, all of which I liked.
Glenn Abelson
Comments welcome, below
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