Another week and another challenge. I suppose it’s inevitable that at some time the challenge theme is going to repeat. On the 1st of November 2013 Cheri asked us to write about something Eerie. It’s not too hard to jump from Eerie to Creepy which is this weeks challenge theme.
A long time ago I used to experiment with composite images and digital blending. Some of the creations I would come up with were quite creepy; like this one of a stone gargoyle from the side of a church blended with a set of human eyes. I was also into framing all of my work at the time.
Later I developed a more dark and sombre mood as you can see from this next one.
The good thing about this type of work; I was teaching myself to use Photoshop, blending layers, lighting, brushes etc. All of which were to come in handy later. This next one was a composite of so many of those techniques I mentioned above. The background is a photograph of trees in the fog, layered with a blue cast and some dark textures. Next the girl was cut-out from her original background and blended into the photograph using a slightly transparent layer. Brushes were used for the lightning and the flying birds.
Talking of brushes. The next two works were created solely using Photoshop brushes. Oops! I tell a lie. The moon was mine. but everything else came from various Photoshop brushes
Definitely all brushes this time. Can you see an underlying theme to all of these works?
Finally, I give you… “Come Play With Me”. Once again, it’s a composite made of several layers of photographs combined with Photoshop brushes.
Here’s what other bloggers are writing about this subject;
https://cynthiamvoss.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/photo-challenge-creepy/
https://anadventures.wordpress.com/2015/08/20/creepy-monk/
https://theparanormalist.wordpress.com/2015/08/20/you-want-creepy-my-whole-blog-is-creepy/
http://abstractlucidity.com/2015/08/19/photo-challenge-creepy/
https://lulaharp.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/wpc-creepy/
https://beyondthebrushphotography.wordpress.com/2015/08/18/please-come-again/
https://gottatakemorepix.wordpress.com/2015/08/18/wpc-creepy/
https://jennsmidlifecrisis.wordpress.com/2015/08/18/weekly-photo-challenge-creepy/
http://mariamjohnson.com/wpc-creepy-not-creepy/
https://photoessayist.wordpress.com/2015/08/15/creepy-prehistoric-creature/
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Very cool pics……..as always! Wonderful images.
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I should get back into doing work like this but I never have the time…
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My favourties are the first two – I do wish I could understand PS so I could experiment with layers. Too great a learning curve it seems.
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It didn’t take me that long Lynne and there are loads of Photoshop Layer tutorials.
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Someday …
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These are all so creepy good!
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Thank you Susan. Unforunately I really do’t have the time to spend on creating works like that anymore, more’s the pity
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Definitely creepy and really well done, Mike. Love the image with the moon. Looks like you had fun with this theme.
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Happy Days, but so long ago Jane. I spent many a dark night during winter teaching myself to use Photoshop and now i hardly ever use it. Nearly all of my processing is done using just Lightroom.
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Great shots. Cool and very creepy… 🙂
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Angela, thank you, I’m glad you liked them.
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I’m impressed with what you can do in Photoshop. All are quite interesting and down right good.
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All from my distant past, Yvonne. But it was a good way of learning Photoshop….and fun
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Thanks for including me in your links 🙂
These are just gorgeous. Any chance I could share a couple — properly credited and linked, of course — in my Haunting Photos Gallery? It’s still under renovation, but these would be beautiful additions.
I’m hesitant to add a link here because of what you said about self-promotional comments. How about this? Just reply here (I’ll get a notice, I think) if you want to see what I’m talking about, and I direct you to the gallery.
If you’re game for being featured, you might want to watermark whatever you’re willing to share.
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Hello Renae – I have no objection to you using any of the work featured in this post. They have a Creative Commons License, which reminds me I need to change the Copyright Statement on my blog. Please remember to credit me.
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After some delay, I did get two shots added to my gallery. (I chose Come Play With Me and Moonlit.) They are credited and linked. Thank you.
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