I find that is difficult to take pictures of koi fish - the water is murky, the sun is too bright, and fish don't sit still for their portrait {sigh}.
I love how they come swarming to the pool edge when they see your shadow, mouth open asking for treats. I also adore their beautiful bright colors and graceful movements.
Here is the original image.
I plopped this image into photoshop (elements) cropped and removed a few fish, added a photoshop painterly artistic filter (something that I hardly ever play with), added one of photoshops textures, and a few blue grey geometric shapes. Oh, and I increased the color saturation a bit so that the koi have a warm glow.
Sometimes it's fun to play around with a poor image - just to see what kind of "magic" happens.
I hope that you have a magical day and a wonderful weekend!
Be Wonderfully Odd!
