merciful house

I’m throwing in some images I fooled around with Photoshop a few months ago. I call these kinds of images I make “scrubs”, image files that don’t have any purpose other than practicing different kinds of effects with varying success.

In these particular scrubs I was focused on photo retouching (playing with colours and contrast mainly).

There are lots of scrubs lying around my hard drives, so I might dig some out for display in future posts.

Filed under: illustration, photography by Ude at 12:59 pm
Tags: images, photo, photoshop, retouching
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Some time ago I noticed one thing.

Basically ever since I bought and used my now broken 35mm/2.0 lens with my Digital EOS camera, I aimed for crisp, clean photography. While I managed to capture good photos, somehow I lost track at some point what photography is all about (or can be). Surely it isn’t about how sharp the pictures are, but how they touch the viewer, right? (more…)

Filed under: photography by Ude at 11:32 pm
Tags: experimenting, photography, photoshop
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Spontanious sketching

Over a month ago, one afternoon while just idling on my sofa wondering what to do, I suddenly got up, grabbed my Wacom-tablet’s pen and started to draw something in Photoshop. It didn’t matter what, I just wanted to do something creative instead of wasting the day away.

After some no-brainer sketching, I ended up with some simple black’n'white figure. A rather typical sketch from someone (or at least me) who hasn’t got an idea in advance what to draw.

The initial sketch I did with my Wacom Intuos2 and Photoshop CS3 (A4 sized).

I didn’t want to stop here however and call it a day, and decided to see how far I could take this within one day.

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Filed under: illustration by Ude at 2:04 pm
Tags: animation, art, flash, photoshop, wacom
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I might as well throw in some watercolour paintings I did while I was in the countryside. I’ve been painting with watercolours for two years weekly during spring and autumn courses, but hardly by myself at all. Now that I was away from other distractions, I found myself painting quite often, which I didn’t mind one bit.

The ones displayed here are the only ones I happened to scan. I’ll try to scan more of them later. Although I’m rather satisfied with these, I still consider them more like practice paintings rather than serious attempts. And they are mainly done just for fun anyway.

These were painted on A4 sized paper (300g/m2). I usually paint on bigger ones, but for this visit smaller sized paper was more convenient. “Hiljainen virtaus” (“silent stream”) and “Lämpimän tuulen neito” (“lady of a warm breeze”) were quite spontaneous paintings, while “lehdet” (“leaves”) was first sketched on a notebook.

Filed under: illustration by Ude at 4:07 pm
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I just uploaded some photos I took while in the countryside. Not that many this time around as I tend not to take photos that I feel I’ve already taken before. I really should reinvent my style of photography somehow.

Maybe it will happen now since I broke my trusty EF 35mm f2.0 lens, which I’ve been using 99% of the time since I bought it two and a half years ago.

Lake scenery in North-Karelia, Finland.

Filed under: photography by Ude at 10:45 am
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