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Edit This July 2020 - Hungry Wolf In Manchester Painterly
My art entry and edit explanations for the Edit This Contest July 2020 on Fine Art America.
Another one of my entries into the "Edit This" contest on Fine Art America for July 2020. They provide a photo and ask us to edit it to make it our own piece of art. They do want the original photo to be recognized in some way. They then have a contest and vote for the best design.
In this contest they provided a pretty dark photo taken of what looks like an apartment complex in Manchester England. For my editing this time, I edited the image in both Affinity Photo, Painter Essentials, and Lightroom.
This image was pretty dark and a little fuzzy so it took some thinking. I knew I wanted to do something with the sky but the tree was looking like quite the challenge. The only thing I could do was to just start in by adding in one of my night photos with stars and try to work around the tree the best I could. I also removed the lamp post light. That caused another issue because the existing tree had light on it. Not liking the look, I decided to make further changes and grabbed one of my moon shots that was already behind a tree. I made this tree replace the existing tree so the light would look better. This step took a lot of time to make it look right.
Feeling like it needed something else I added one of my Siberian Husky photos and made it look like a wolf. To help with the softness of the photo, I opened it in Painter Essentials and added some 3D texture. From there I went into Lightroom where I did my final edits. I did some light painting in the windows to make it appear as lights were on, did some fine tuning on colors and clarity, added tags, a description and it was finally done. It took me probably 3 hours to create it. These contests are always a challenge which makes it fun and helps me to learn more as I go.
Since I won 4 contests ago, I'm still not able to win for the this contest, but I can still enter them and people can still vote. I ended up in 7th place for this one which I consider a great honor!
Here's the link to the photo:
https://5-jennifer-white.pixels.com/featured/hungry-wolf-in-manchester-painterly-jennifer-white.html
The contest link was removed so I'm unable to share that link. I believe there was a technical error.
Can't wait for the next contest! Check back to see my next creation.
