Flowers

I decided to do a little playing with some photos I took of flowers. I wanted to have some fun and be a little more artistic and here are the results :-)

Here I cropped the photo, changed the levels and changed the hue slightly to make it seem as though the flower was in a spotlight.

 In this one I changed the levels on the colours almost completely eliminating any red from the photo to create an almost x-ray like image. I like this one particularly as originally the flowers behind the white one were all red or pink. I enjoy taking photos and changing them completely and seeing the difference.

 For this one I wanted to try something a bit different, I have always wanted to be able to paint. My sister is an amazing artist and if i could draw to the standard of her "crappy doodles" I would be happy but alas that skill is not mine. It does amuse me that she struggles to use a camera set on auto so I guess we all have our strong points :-).
Anyway while browsing photoshops filters I have discovered that I can now apparently turn my photos into lovely paintings, I believe this to be some what of a cheat but not one that I am going to argue with!
This is a photo I took many years ago but thought it looked absolutely beautiful as a watercolour painting.