Nice Set of Headlights on That One!

Yeah, I'm back.  At least I think I am.  Got three new posts on the Hare-Brained Homestead blog, so I thought it was time to freshen up here, too.

Sunrise

Scan of slide from around 1975 or '76. Sunrise over the Grand Canyon, Arizona. Rare, in that I've never liked to get up early.

"Painting" type manipulation in one of my editors.. forget which now. We'll be getting away from the ladies for a little bit, because I was starting to get a bit out of control with the tricks, so it's not likely you're ever going to see a full size version of this creepy image:



I have some in the works, combining old and new images, that are a little less over-the-top, so there's that.

Wood Nymph

Yeah. I suppose you could infer a play on words there. A photo montage of two different images.. one originally color,(yes, you've seen it before), one a silly black and white.

Tried out some new software for this. "Nymph" cut out using something called Picture Cutout Guide, which is an easy way to separate different elements from an image. It's a memory hog, though, and very slow, but worked well for this purpose. Coloring was done using GIMP, which is free editing software similar to Photoshop, which was also used. I need a lot more familiarization with it.. has a few tools Photoshop doesn't have.

On The Prowl For Sausage

All those lucky bikers must be just around the corner...

The Twins

Your pride is showing.

Coldstone Creamery.

It's OK. It was a _________________ cemetery. (Insert a religion you love to hate. Easy one for me.)

Haven't posted a picture of the fabulous Margaret recently, and this one hides a secret I won't tell. See previous.

Air-Cooled Coochie

(and I spelled it right without having to look it up)

I bet my friends who were involved with this project will scratch their heads in puzzlement, because they won't remember this, until they realize there's some digital undressing going on here. My technical skills aren't quite at the level yet where I could remove the top as easily as the bottom, and we weren't paying her enough to do it "live".

Another Pair of Breasts

Like Poles Repel ~ Perfect Balance

               …and finally, what happens if one doesn’t follow the advice in the old saw: Don’t get your tit in a ringer….

Tit-al Wave

…same starting image, taken to extremes.

Monologue..

What?!? Why so serious?

Some of the stickers and text tools available in Picnik. I would have preferred a more realistic pair of nose glasses, but that would have required a more labor-intensive project in Photoshop Elements. I may still give it a go.

Scanned under-exposed black and white negative.

Dominant Female

Only thing missing is the whip?

Following up on yesterday's image, where a monochromatic color cast was added to a black and white original, I used Photoshop Elements again, to add multiple colors to the image, along with a Mardi Gras mask I found online. Then the whole image was "posterized". Finally, the border was added today, using the many tools available in the free version of Picnik.

I've had fun with this image again lately, experimenting with the effects tools in the ACDSee playbook. One particular humorous example, using the "mirror" effect is the aptly titled, "Two-Headed Monster". Margaret thinks it's creepy. (And no, this is not Margaret).

Eat It!

OK. Let's get this out of the way now and never have to think about it again! Any photographer who says he or she doesn't have a shoebox full of these images is flat out lying. In fact, with cameras on virtually any cellular phone, and digital cameras big and small, I'd bet the numbers of "self portraits" has probably risen exponentially. Just Google Brett Favre. In fact, there are serious erotic art websites for women to post self-portraits.  Without looking, I'm guessing there are sites for men, as well.  You can look if you want to.

This is one of the earliest "selective coloring"  images I worked on.  You'll probably be more interested in the others.  You may leave the page now.