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Tag: Floral Fountain

  • Cascading Floral Fountain Revisit: FOTD Jan 25 with AI Artistry

    Cascading Floral Fountain Revisit: FOTD Jan 25 with AI Artistry

    Hi All 👋 My latest post for Cee’s FOTD.

    Although Cee’s taking a much-deserved break, I’m keeping my FOTD posts going as I explore further with flowers in Hot Mods. Looking forward to Cee’s return in February

    I am delving into my archives for warm, sunny shots during these frosty days.

    A couple of days ago, I did a post based on an idea by my wife — a floral fountain. This was to imagine a fountain with flowers taking the place of water. The end result was good but not quite what she envisaged, so back to prompt engineering to get the desired effect.

    I used some new bouquet images and one of my shots of the Doulton Fountain in Glasgow as the baseline for the project.

    The images below fit Susan’s description. I’m currently working on another post about the floral fountain, where I’ll share more about the journey through prompt engineering to get the right look. Between the concept and the end result, there were about 2 hours of continuous adjustment and 10 iterations.

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  • Cascading Floral Fountain: FOTD Jan 23 with AI Artistry

    Cascading Floral Fountain: FOTD Jan 23 with AI Artistry

    Hi All 👋 My latest post for Cee’s FOTD.

    Although Cee’s taking a much-deserved break, I’m keeping my FOTD posts going as I explore further with flowers in Hot Mods. Looking forward to Cee’s return in February

    I am delving into my archives for warm, sunny shots during these frosty days.

    This one took a slightly odd turn, thanks to my good wife, Susan. I was thinking about a setting for the next bouquet when Susan came up with the idea of having flowers cascading out of a fountain. Ever one to oblige; for this, I used the two pictures below as the baseline for the idea. One, a colourful bouquet of flowers; the second, a Cellpic shot of The Ross Fountain with Edinburgh Castle behind.

    This is the first re-imagining from the prompt.

    The Ross Fountain enhanced with flowers
    The Ross Fountain enhanced with flowers

    I took this further by rendering it as a watercolour.

    Watercolour of flower fountain
    Watercolour of flower fountain

    Now the fun really begins. My next setting for the flower cascading fountain was a futuristic plaza in a cityscape.

    Futuristic cityscape
    Futuristic cityscape

    Although I liked the general look & feel of this one, I wanted the fountain to be more prominent & viewed from ground level.

    Floral fountain in a futuristic cityscape
    Floral fountain in a futuristic cityscape

    Next up, steampunk, but I wanted it to be a more modern steampunk.

    Floral fountain in a modern/steampunk cityscape
    Floral fountain in a modern/steampunk cityscape

    This kinda worked in so much that the steampunk has been blended with a futuristic skyline of towering buildings, but wasn’t quite the look I was hoping for; so, back to the prompt.

    Floral fountain re-imagined in futuristic-steampunk cityscape
    Floral fountain re-imagined in futuristic-steampunk cityscape

    This one is much closer to what I envisioned from a futuristic/steampunk blend.

    Any of you following my blog will know I’m currently working on a project fusing my own photography with AI creativity. For more on my journey with AI, check out my Fan Of… series, the latest being a re-imagining of an old Steam Locomotive.