Gingko Study

Gingko Study 1

From a close up photo of a dried gingko leaf that I have taped to my studio window comes this color study. I used Photoshop to crop the leaf, erase some background dust, sharpen the image, and take it to purple using the black and white tool.

 

Then I overlaid an orange background onto the purple leaf. The orange background is dissolved so that only parts of it show through. I liked the image so much that I set it as the background wallpaper on my computer screen. I like to change the wallpaper often so this purple leaf will see me everyday for a while this autumn.

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Wanda Hayes Eichler