Post by alexr on Mar 3, 2019 16:57:37 GMT
After putting this image in my Gallery I have been asked to explain how I did it.
Rose kaleidescope by AlexR!, on Flickr
A bit of background first...
Another forum that I participate in had its monthly competition of 'Symmetry'. The only picture I had taken in the time of the competition was one of a valentine rose I had taken using an extension tube:
Red red rose by AlexR!, on Flickr
So I thought I could use this to do something, but didn't have much time available. So I basically used this tutorial:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXZLYg1Ym3U
In essence, by copying into a new layer, flipping the layer and extending the crop out I got two roses side by side like a mirror, then flipped it again vertically to get four roses in a square. So it was symmetrical in two planes but I wasn't excited by it, I felt it needed more substance. So I added another layer, which I rotated by 45 degrees, then tried all the blending modes until I hit on what seemed to work best (which happened to be 'lighten' - I'm sure most of you would have known this but I can't ever visualise them, trial and error is my friend). The resultant rotated 8 roses slightly messed up the symmetry aspect but I thought it looked better and there were still some embedded symmetries.
And that is it, nothing difficult at all. As a postscript, it didn't get anywhere in the competition it was designed for, so it was nice to get an honourable mention in the IOW.
Rose kaleidescope by AlexR!, on Flickr
A bit of background first...
Another forum that I participate in had its monthly competition of 'Symmetry'. The only picture I had taken in the time of the competition was one of a valentine rose I had taken using an extension tube:
Red red rose by AlexR!, on Flickr
So I thought I could use this to do something, but didn't have much time available. So I basically used this tutorial:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXZLYg1Ym3U
In essence, by copying into a new layer, flipping the layer and extending the crop out I got two roses side by side like a mirror, then flipped it again vertically to get four roses in a square. So it was symmetrical in two planes but I wasn't excited by it, I felt it needed more substance. So I added another layer, which I rotated by 45 degrees, then tried all the blending modes until I hit on what seemed to work best (which happened to be 'lighten' - I'm sure most of you would have known this but I can't ever visualise them, trial and error is my friend). The resultant rotated 8 roses slightly messed up the symmetry aspect but I thought it looked better and there were still some embedded symmetries.
And that is it, nothing difficult at all. As a postscript, it didn't get anywhere in the competition it was designed for, so it was nice to get an honourable mention in the IOW.
