The next composite in my wildlife series is a couple of black crowned cranes. The black crowned crane makes it home in the savannah area of sub-Saharan Africa, from Sudan and Ethiopia in the east, over to the west coast including Senegal and Gambia. It lives in shallow wetlands and…
Continuing with my wildlife series, I decided to create a portrait of a llama image that I captured during one of my wildflower shoots last spring up near Burnet, Texas. I often travel for 6 or more hours in the spring driving through the back roads looking for fields of…
GIRAFFE PORTRAIT The background is a combination of a couple of colored textures blended with a vivid purple solid layer in different blend modes. I then put the background through Topaz Impressions and added a custom preset (my Van Gogh preset) at about 65% strength just to knock off…
THE LAST STAND Portrait of a flamingo from the San Antonio Zoo. I used NIK Color Efex Pro, Detail Extractions and Pro Contrast, did a slight painting with Topaz and also added a bit of the oil paint filter. I used a High Pass filter to add back some…
I’ve not been posting to my blog lately, and I really need to get back to it more. Unfortunately, I’ve just been posting over on Facebook, which has it’s limitations. My plans are to take my last 6-8 digital works of art and turn them into posts and get them…
AN AFRICAN SAVANNA The acacia trees are stock but the rest of the images are my own captures. The grassland is actually a field in the Texas Hill Country, the sky was from my trip to Costa Rica in Monteverde, the mountains are from Red Rock Canyon outside of…
A ZEBRA PORTRAIT The zebra was captured at the Wildlife Ranch and the textures are stock or purchased texture packages. The background was painted in Topaz Impressions. The zebra was enhance with DxO’s NIK software using Tonal Contrast and Detail Extraction. Color profile LUT was added to bring it all…
Whooping Cranes This composition is a little different as I used Topaz Impressions to give the background a painterly effect. I also used a series of filters to build the reflections and the wave ripples around the birds leg. The creation also uses a couple of different textures. The birds…
The Blackbucks The wildlife images are from the local Wildlife Ranch. The sky images are from Antigua and Hawaii and the landscapes are from the Tetons and Red Rock Canyon outside Las Vegas.
The Forest Dwellers The bongo antelope is from the local wildlife ranch. The forest images are from my trip to Costa Rica last year.