38th St. Orchid

I've been running a series of exercises where I use only my cell phone camera (oh yuck!) to create a base digital file for further processing. I'm finding that a lot of the conventional ideas about camera use can be bent considerably if you have clearly defined expections of your goal image and are also willing to stretch your own ideas of what can be done with a cheap, poor quality camera.

This particular image is of an orchid plant in a flower vendor's display against a white brick wall on the corner of 38th Street and 2nd Avenue in NYC. It is a straight up shot with my cell phone camera - 'as is where is', so to speak. Processing is with Silver EFX compined with a transparent paint daubs filter.

I have no idea what the camera data is!

Comments and critiques are encouraged and welcome!

For those who might have more interest, my latest blog post touches on this exercise a bit more (link below).