About the Image(s)

I am not sure where, but I recently saw photographs that looked more like paintings than photographs. I learned that these are in a broad category called "Fine Art Photography" that includes photos that look like paintings to abstracts that look like nothing in reality. (Not sure I'm crazy about the term "Fine Art Photography".) The common element to all is a heavy level of processing. I was curious about how a photograph could be made to look like a painting and took a class. This is a product of that class. I look forward to comments from the group.

I took the original photo on a boat trip on the canals in the Burgundy region of France, with my Canon EOS Rebel XT with a 70-300mm lens, 1/320 sec at f/9.0 with ISO 400.

In Photoshop I started with the original photograph and then added two layers of other photographs, which are both photos of textures, and used the blending tool to manipulate the blend mode and opacity of the texture. The first was a carpet pattern at a hotel I stayed at (Texture 1) and then the second, a rock surface I saw at a friend's house (Texture 2). Then I played around with the blending modes and opacity in Photoshop to get the desired effect.