Painting with Filters in Photography (Today was another good day!!)

I’ve been playing around this afternoon with the photographs I took yesterday.  There were a number that were deleted immediately, some that were cropped and intensified or sharpened and turned out to be pleasing images. There were others that seemed not to have much promise until I spotted one detail that seemed intriguing.  If I could sharpen it to the desired amount and had surrounding images that worked well with the main detail, I then started playing with light, tone, shadows and contrast.

I finally found one that was pleasing, but when I started playing around with filters, I was amazed at the difference between the original altered piece and eight different filters.  I want to present all of them to see what you think.  From one photograph that I felt was not a success, these nine alternative paintings developed.  I love every one of them. The setting for all, with the exception of filters, were the same: Saturation, 1.00,Contrast, 0.71, Cast, Intensity, Definition and Edges were all 1.00, Falloff 0.99.  Each is labeled below with the filter used.
No Filter

Mono Filter
Tonal Filter

Noir Filter

Fade Filter

Chrome Filter

Process Filter

Transfer Filter

Instant Filter

The Original Picture

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