Crest orton biography of michael

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Adobe recently asked permission to include an "Orton Effect" in the new version of Adobe Photoshop Elements being released this fall. These are the foundation of the ICM galleries on this website.

Another series that he has worked on in the last few years are the reflections on water images.

2011 to present day produces videos with original soundtracks, available for viewing in HD on YouTube channel- michaelortonphoto

ICM -- The Liquid Landscape, A Walk in the Palm Grove, Illusion.

Videography – River of Light, Surface, Focus

Music creations uploaded regularly to Soundcloud.

Then I saw a technique called "pen and ink with watercolor". My early attempts were out of focus blocks of color. Fortunately I am not in that situation but I can say that this photograph has had a major impact on my life. To me it is as exciting as my early days as I now use compound camera motion to blend the colors of the landscape.

I then mounted both transparencies in the same slide mount. For me it was the beginning of a style of photography that has become known as the "Orton Effect".

A Good Day

Near the beginning of my photographic career, I met a group of artists (painters) whose work I admired and attempted to imitate with my photographic tools, not with brushes and paint.

Refuge

Today I am currently enjoying a "reawakening" after years of stock and have returned to my beginnings and once again am using my camera to imitate art. A politician or public figure in the wrong place at the wrong time might say regrettably yes. A love of music was influential in these evocative multimedia presentations.

 2001 - “Photographing Creative Landscapes”, published by Amherst Media New York.

(The digital version is now widely used, Adobe contracting to include a guided action called the “Orton Effect” in Adobe Elements 10 released in the fall 2011.)

1992 - “Once Upon an Island” – Images of Vancouver Island, published by Orca Book Publishers, Victoria BC.

 Starting in 1992, Articles on his techniques were published in Popular Photography, Peterson’s Photographic, UK’s Amateur Photographer, and PhotoLife Magazine.

Gallery Shows -- Striking Faces and Mystical Places --- Two person show with photographer Wayne Buhr.

Some of these were included in my first book "Once Upon an Island" (Images of Vancouver Island) and various magazine articles in the early 90's. I was already making the watercolor (at least in my mind) and realized that the pen and ink could be simulated by overexposing to remove most of the color but still retain the detail. Stock photography became a reality.

Santa Rosa Garden

It is fulfilling to receive comments from those around the world who enjoy this effect, now produced digitally in Photoshop and similar programs.

Bracketing exposures allowed me to experiment on the light table to obtain the desired effect .