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Create by Nichole Van, I’ve banded together with a handful of other photographers to start a blog project focusing on exploring the fine art side of photography. Each month, we will post a photo or series of images focused on art and photography. There are no rules. Just post what comes from the heart and allow the inner artist a chance to explore and fly.

I know the definition of “fine art” means so many different things to so many people. That’s the great thing about what we do…its all subjective. It’s totally up to the viewer to make that choice. For me “fine art” is defined in so many different ways. Of course, all the paintings by the great ones, inspiring portraitures and processing techniques are just to name a few. When I decided to join this group one of my main purposes for doing it was to get back to where it all started for me (and probably many of you too), basically where the fun was and that was photoshop. I often get asked, “how did you learn photoshop?” The best way for me was to just play and play and play. See, I had an old version of it that didn’t support actions so in seeing all of these amazing photographs from others being processed by actions, I was so jealous but I vowed to try to re-create the look the best I could. Of course I made LOTS of mistakes but the beauty of it was I discovered so much in doing so. And I think that eventually lead me to just be bold sometimes when I edit. I remember those days fondly too….spending hours and hours playing with just one photograph and being so proud of myself when I achieved something I really liked. Well, yesterday, that feeling came back. I really don’t have the time to spend playing in photoshop with the kiddos, the forum, workshops, my clients etc and that’s OK, but it’s cool that this group gives me 1 day out of 30 that I allow myself to do that.

So, with this month’s fine art image, I took a plain old “nothing to spectacular about it” photo and tried to make it interesting. I had the best intent on letting you all know my steps but after like the 20th snapshot, the 3rd artistic filter and slapping on the 5th texture, I loss track of my steps so I’m so sorry for that.

And here’s a side by side before and after:

Thanks everyone for stopping by and please check out our first elevate post for 2012 by visiting Martha Schuster | i see the moon photography | Long Beach, CA.