Extensis Portfolio Image Collage Competition

Results of the April Competition

Another month and more images to consider.

 

The April Winner of the Extensis Portfolio 8 software is Laurie Thompson, New Orleans, La, USA, with his entry 'Bits and Pieces'

After photographing several times in the worst flooded areas of New Orleans, I began to look past the destroyed mud covered houses to the little bits and pieces of peoples lives that had been washed out of the houses with the flood waters. I found the doll in one yard, the wagon in another, etc. The flood waters of Lake Ponchartrain evidently washed the birdseed, including sunflower seeds, from the neighborhood bird feeders. Now that Spring has come to the city and even though these neighborhoods are still deserted, the sunflower seeds that were left when the flood receded are growing and blooming in the dried mud. A small sign that life will return here one day.

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Judges comments: 'A powerful image'.

Runners up were:

Gene Ouimette, Consecon, ON, Canada

Judges comments: 'Excellent piece mixing hand-drawn and photographic elements. Lovely color use'

"Hopi Clans" is a collage of digital photographs of textures from varying surfaces, combined with scans of hand drawn elements. Elements are then layered & manipulated in Photoshop CS.

 

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"Oriental Medley" is a combination of scans of papers & hand painted elements, which are layered & manipulated in Photoshop CS, & then worked into with a pressure sensitive Waco pen, using various brushes & tools in Photo shop.

Susan Oakes, Lake Worth, FL, USA http://www.suoakesart.com

Judges comments: 'Great color progression through the image that gives a strong feeling of place.'

It is entitled Chatham. It is a collage of photographs I took of the rural town of Chatham which is in upstate NY. I wanted to portray the idyllic tranquility and beauty of this place in one image which a single photo cannot do. I put several images together in such a way that they related to each other as separate pieces and also as a whole.

The image was created in Photoshop with multiple layers and effects.

 

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It is entitled Disjointed, and is a very personal statement. It is a collage of photographs which my daughter and I took, and contains images of myself (eight in all). I created this image to reflect the feeling that there are so many disparate parts of my life which seem to be separate entities and cannot be united. The only common denominator is me; yet I wish for wholeness. "Sometimes the pieces just don't seem to fit."

The image was created in Photoshop with multiple layers and effects.

 

Ansgard Thomson, Canada http://www.ansgardthomson.com

Judges comments: 'Strong abstract image'

"Composition 2 on the edge "
This image was composed from 9different images that were created with pen tools in Photoshop and compiled into this collage with even edges .All images had been created as individual works .

 

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"Unedged " was created from the above pictures in painter by using warping all the 9 images together to created a collage composition to harmonize all forms and shapes and colors to remove all hard edges into a colorful abstract as one layer .

 

 

 

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