I didn't have much experience in Photoshop back then in 2008. But I had plenty of fun learning through errors and experimenting with all kinds of options without a clear, or even vague result in mind.
In today's post, I'll show you nine old photographs, enhanced or ruined - who knows, while playing in Photoshop. The bushcricket shown in this opening picture looked pretty good in the original photograph. The colors and the light & its direction were great - too bad that the area of interest ended up being blurred beyond repair. That's why I applied some rough artsy effects to the image. I was very satisfied with the result ... for a day or two ... then I realized that the thing isn't that great. It has some rough, clumsy charm, though.
Here you can see what I achieved on the 31st of December 2007, after working, probably for hours, to enhance a generic, boring photograph taken in a pine grove somewhere near the sea. If you think that the final result isn't too bad - who am I to disagree? Since the picture isn't trying to appear realistic, I actually still like it.
Here you can see some rough effects applied to the tender flowers of the wild onion.
In the case of this photograph, similar effects were applied to a fairly small, cup-like wildflower.
To get this creation, I deformed a piece of the coastal scenery. The rocks by the sea became some kind of sculpture or a petrified creature.
Here you can see another bushcricket. In three, slightly different versions this time.
This ladybeetle project was pretty successful. Relatively clean and simple.
Here you can see one ordinary macro photograph, for a change. It's a bushcricket portrait.
This last edit was created a couple of minutes ago from one of those old shots from 2008. The photograph was taken in the middle of a sunny winter day, but with a very simple, elegant intervention, I turned it into something that looks like a night shot that implies a beautiful, atmospheric moonlight.
If you count all the edits, they are probably a few more than nine, but everything was done with only nine old photographs, so the title isn't that wrong after all.
AND THAT'S IT. HOPE YOU ENJOYED THIS CLUMSY OLD STUFF. AS ALWAYS HERE ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS, THE EDITS, AND ALL THAT VISUAL STUFF, ARE MY WORK - THE END.