It's nearly 12 months since I hopped on a jet plane and enjoyed my first proper photography/travel workshop in Venice.
I fell royally in love when I was there, not only with the City and it's people, but with my camera too and I'd like to think that leaps and bounds have been made in my photo taking abilities since that awe inspiring visit was made.
This is the SOOC image that I used for the photoshopped version above.
If you've been a student in my Paint Sketch Play class you should have a good idea of how I arrived at the final image.
Lots of Art History and Mixer brushing.
Layers of texture and sketch.
Judicious amounts of Gradient Mapping and Selective Color Adjustments, topped off with some Smudge, Blur, Blend and Vignette layers.
And of course a good crop to find the part of the image that worked best.
Carnivale is almost upon us again.
I'm thinking, wishing, dreaming of being there again. Sipping little cups of hot chocolate, dining in the cafes beside the Grand Canal, walking the promenade and the Piazza and feasting on the eye candy with my camera....
Beautiful!!! I love Venice too. Unfortunately I hadn't discovered photography at the time, so oh how I would love to return one day!
Posted by: Robin aka Gotham Girl | January 14, 2013 at 03:35 PM
Venice, where around every corner is another beautiful shot! Lately I've been yearning too. Then I remember the effect the humidity had on my arthritis! Still I think I'd risk it.
Posted by: Marg Byrne | January 13, 2013 at 06:18 PM
Absolutely remarkable ~
I'm going in March :-)
~K
Posted by: karen burns | January 13, 2013 at 02:30 PM
Absolutely beautiful. It's time for me to go back to my class notes and make some Photoshop magic.
Posted by: joanne thieme huffman | January 13, 2013 at 07:46 AM