Thursday, November 21, 2024

Fiddling and Faddling or maybe Faffing

Although I am now less into wandering about toting my heavy camera than I used to be, I still enjoy looking at my old photos and, sometimes fiddling around with them. 

Our final Celtfest of many Celtfests that we attended was in 2019, before COVID. Now, even though COVID is over and Celtfest has returned, we are no longer moved to spend the weekend in the hot sun and lugging chairs and supplies. So 2019 was it for us unless we some year decide to sit under the shelter at the top of the hill with the old folk. But we are so far removed from the stage up there that I haven't yet been inclined.

Twin Flames was a wonderful group at the Celtfest, actually a non-Celtic group but they were still a roots group celebrating their native music. I posted about them here back then.

This was one of the photos, the lead singer playing the native flute at this point in the performance.


On a whim, I decide to change the crop, eliminate the old background and add a new one. We can do this much easier now than we could in 2019. I am not sure that I like my experiment, but that is what it was – an experiment.


Then, I had another idea: composite two images of this wonderful lady and then play with filters. I think the finishing filters gave it a better finish than the above photo, but both images took a lot of faffing about on a Tuesday morning.


I am not an artistic sort of bloke, but newer technology does give me some hope and assistance.

Maybe I was fiddling and faddling more than faffing. Watcha think?


22 comments:

  1. Well the two preceding comments may lead me to salivate a bit for cakes...but your post, now, what exactly is faffing? I'm quite pleased with the resulting photo, so whatever you did came out looking pretty good.

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    1. They're gone now. I don't get much spam, but they threw cakes at me this morning.

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  2. Cakes? I missed cakes? I like the photos, all three. I like the third the best, if I needed to chose.

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    1. I agree on #3. As for cakes ... Blogger ate them. 😎

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  3. I think the result is charming! xoxo

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  4. I like that last shot too.

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  5. I think the results are wonderful. Well done.

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  6. Rome is not on fire. I rather like the red bursts with the red dress shot. And the double is great. You do inspire me and I am now taking baby steps away from my well-loved Corel to try the newer tech.

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    1. My fine motor control isn’t all that great, so invoking AI to help me select things can be very helpful, not to mention time-saving.

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  7. It is fascinating when we look back on our old photographs that we now see how to improve them and our vision has grown. Thanks for sharing another friendly and worthwhile post. Aloha to you

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  8. I think you're extremely creative! You did some interesting things with the photos.

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  9. You were fluting, AC.

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  10. Either way, I like it! (And I love Celtic music so a Celtifest would be just my thing!)

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  11. It is great to tap into your creativity drive

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    1. Yes I like trying new things. It’s for me and not because I think it’s great.

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  12. I like the original with the black background.

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  13. That looks like fun! With the faff backgrounds, they look like school photos.

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    1. I think. I could have done it better, but it will do.

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  14. Not sure where the closes celtic fest, would be to me.

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