I have been seeing a lot of creative artists’s work and this has resulted in me exploring beyond the photographic image and seeing more. The borders in particular do not have to be defined, layers and textures can be added and images can be extended – photograph or art…
So which genre(s) do the images sit within… They have probably moved from documentary or landscape photography… are they within creative photography, mixed media, abstract images or…
At the moment the work is mostly achieved by processing in a number of Apps and revisiting them as necessary. I often work with the image inverted or reversed then return to the ‘correct’ view. However, I have not been particularly methodical and failed to record the processes for each piece of work – so they are definitely ‘one offs’ and there is a lesson to be learned.
So here is a new version of the landscape from my previous blog: ‘Crossing Beauly Firth’. Besides applying layers and textures I have merged a second copy of the image at 90 degrees thereby making the ‘crossing’. I have included some of the work in progress with the final image.
Buealy Firth Processed Raw image 
So the original raw image was made with an Olympus digital camera and processed through Apps, all told over a day’s work including travel. How long would it have taken if I had created this by hand, physically applying every layer, texture and, border on top of an original piece? Perhaps I should feel guilty that there has been little pain in making this, and would I have felt more comfortable had I made an image with my Sinar X large format film camera [no lens as yet through], had it printed onto canvas and then worked on it – it would have cost more certainly…
But would it have worked in black and white or sepia?
White and black photography 