Julie Powell – Photographer & Graphic Artist
Creating & Capturing Life's Precious Moments
Every month I find the Shiftart.com challenge getting more and more difficult, September’s challenge, for instance, all images were predominantly orange! So I sort of went grungey B&W surreal fairy-tale. Apart from the boy (which is a composite of 2 images as well), I used the images below to help create ‘Tinkerbell’ and the background, as…
Read MoreSticking with my more is less theme of late, I offered this up as my Shift Art Challenge, for August It is a composite of three different images, the field, the sky and the girl. I added the hair and skirt, changed all the colors and tones and added more grass in the distance.…
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Just in I won First Runner Up in this month’s Shift Art challenge, very exciting, especially considering the piece that won…..awesome. Check them out here. Shift Art is very challenging, as you are not working with your own images, for me, I find that extremely challenging. Each month I try to work my magic…
Read MoreAnother month and another ShiftArt.com challenge, spurned on by my Honorable Mention and subsequent video tutorial, I jumped into this month’s effort These are three of the images used to create the final composite, plus of course quite a few bits and pieces from my own collection as well. I really played with various Dodge…
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Back again, with another Shift Art entry, it is becoming increasingly difficult working with images that are not my own, it seems. But this challenge does push you beyond your creative limits and boundaries……..and that’s a good thing. So taking these four images from the selection on offer, I decided to merge the woman’s face…
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I’m not in the studio this week I am on the road, so here is a quick post for the latest digital art for the Shift Art Challenge; Balancing the Light and the Feather in this symbolic piece features no less than 13 separate images to make this compilation…wish me luck. ~Julz
Read MoreForgive me if I have shown these ones before, but I don’t think I have, this is something I did for the March Shift Art challenge; didn’t win anything……..but as I keep telling myself; I do it because it is fun and I enjoy it and it is a challenge; not to win I love…
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It’s that time of year again, when the challenge is called and entries put in for the ShiftArt.com Challenge. I must admit to being a little flummoxed this month, with decidedly difficult images to work with. I started and stopped four different images, worked and re worked, until eventually I had to say enough, I…
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I wrote a post earlier in the week about my submission for Shiftart Challenge, considering the competition this month; I did not envy the judges. It was won by an amazing piece by Jason Hahn, followed by an equally amazing first and second runners up. I rate a mention, so I was pretty happy with…
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Shift Art Challenge time again, this is my entry for December……….titled Inner Peace, I used some different techniques on this one including motion and field blur, using Dodge & Burn to re define facial features and colour layers and blending modes to create natural looking makeup. Not sure what the ShiftArt challenge is? Visit the…
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Julie Powell - Photographer & Graphic Artist 