Irony
by Anita Pollak
Title
Irony
Artist
Anita Pollak
Medium
Photograph - Two Blended Photographs
Description
What do you get when you cross an iris with a peony? Well, Irony, of course! This was done for a lesson I took about blending images in creative ways. Some of the images I made used texture blending, but none of them gave me that "WOW" moment the way this one did.
Using the "blend-If" sliders found under "Blending Options" in Photoshop, I had the yellow iris with a black background on the bottom layer, with a cropped red peony above it. I played with the sliders until I got this result, which is so far out of my comfort zone, but so very cool, and I love it!
“The magic rarely happens within our comfort zone, but outside it, on the ragged, scary edge, where we have to fight like hell to keep from drowning in the unknown.”
— David duChemin, A Beautiful Anarchy: When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created
Featured in the following FAA groups:
The Artist's BuZZz - 3/3/2023
Experimental Photography - 2/21/2023
Lady Photographers - 2/8/2023
Imagination Gone Wild - 2/6/2023
A Woman's Touch - 2/6/20232
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February 6th, 2023
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Comments (41)
Nancy Griswold
This is WILD and so innovative, fine creative work, I am really enjoying this so much! FAV+
Bernadette Krupa
Anita, great creation "Irony! Congrats on multiple features - If The Image Excite, The ARTIST BUZzz and Experimental Photo!! L/F
Bharati Manjeshwar
Love this representation of 'Irony' and the description of how you reached this outcome. Great work! L/f
Conni Schaftenaar
what a fun way to blend two photos, Anita! Thanks to Laurel for sharing this in the Digital Thread in the BUZzz! F
Laurel Adams
Anita, CONGRATULATIONS! Your work has been featured in the Home Page of The ARTIST BUZzz Group! You are cordially invited to POST image embed links for this distinction to the 🌟GAs -Features Archive -2023 thread in the discussion tab. Thank you for your glimpse of beauty! I am going to post this in CONNI’s Techniques thread #5! YAY! Please check it out…so EXCITING!
Anita Pollak replied:
Thank you so much for this wonderful feature, dear Laurel - I really appreciate it!
Laurel Adams
Anita, this is CREATIVE PHOTOARTISTRY!…what an AWEsome discussion this might spark in thread #7.!! YAY!..Fav
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