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Macro Monday – Rusty and a Free Texture

February 17, 2014 by CherylMC 2 Comments

I was just feeling that rustic mood today. I went on a scavenger hunt in hubby’s garage to find a few rusty items. His buckets of nuts and bolts was a great place to start and sure didn’t take me long to find a handful of rust! He calls EVERYTHING in his garage “gold”, but I beg to differ.

At any rate, I grabbed a few items, scattered them on my old burlap bag and shot away. I used my Tamron 90mm 1:2.8 macro lens on my Nikon d90 camera.

rustybolts_prv

 

And as usual, I just couldn’t leave it alone, HAD to play with some texture.

rustybolts-tex_prv

 

I used the following texture, which I shot a couple years ago. I believe it was the top of our grill outside.

I added it in a new layer overtop my original image with blend mode of color burn and reduced the opacity t0 44%.  I then duplicated the texture layer using a blend mode of soft light at 100%.

If you’d like to play with the texture, you can download it HERE.

DSC_0040_prv

 

I’m linking up today with:

Sarah Carletti Photography

 

Thanks so much for looking and Have A Creative Day!! Get on out there and SHOOT something!

Cheryl

 

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Filed Under: Freebies, Macro Tagged With: featured, macro, Macro Monday, textured image

Comments

  1. Sarah C says

    February 18, 2014 at 8:19 am

    Hi, I am checking in real quick. Thank you for linking up and I love that texture! Blessings.

    Reply
  2. Mitzi says

    February 18, 2014 at 12:55 pm

    WOW…who would have thought that rust could look so good! Great image!

    Reply

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