Digital Imaginings

Each of my digital imaginings begins with a photograph. It may be a physical photographic print that was taken years ago when I used film and a very simple camera. It might even be a rather poor example (as was the case with Oceanus below) but I have scanned it into my computer. Or it may be a more recent image taken with a digital camera.

I then apply various digital processes to the photograph. It could be a single process or several until I achieve the end result. I use a variety of image manipulation programmes, some free and some paid. I may use just one of them or a combination; whatever I think will give the right effect – and the ‘right’ effect will totally depend on the image itself.  I don’t have a single style.

There’s a lot of experimentation – that’s part of the fun – and, of course, some don’t work out. Each image that I create is different. Some can be printed in larger sizes to frame and hang as wall art while others make great greeting cards. Some of them end up in both categories.

Below you can watch a very short slideshow of the stages involved in transforming my photograph of a statue of Oceanus, a Greek Titan god of the seas. The statue is by Giambologna and is in the Bargello Museum, Florence.