Playing with Camera Bag

Last night, after eating a bit of chicken with cashews

and perusing my fortune

"You will soon have a musical opportunity"

and wondering what that was about

since I'm not American Idol material,

though I do sing along in the car 

with the songs on the CD player

Luxor Spirits © 2010 Meri Arnett- Kremian

I moseyed upstairs to my little hideaway

and decided to play a bit with a new photo program

I'd installed called Camera Bag.

variant using "Cinema" filter

I heard about the program from Nina Bagley a while ago

and paid a reasonable price to download it.

variant using "Holga" pinhole camera filter

Camera Bag lets you pretend

that you've used old-fashioned cameras

instead of the fancy digital models we all use.

variant using custom filter "matte", then adjusting the hue in PS4

So I took an image --- two photos that I'd layered --

(the original version is the first in the series)

and just experimented.

variant using "Lolo" filter

In a really old post, I once talked about layering

images, one atop another, and being surprised

when I printed the "merged image"

to find spectral figures.

 variant using an "expired instant film" filter

This experiment with Camera Bag emphasizes that.

What's intriguing to me is that I see different spirits

in different versions of the same piece.

variant using 1974 color film filter

How is that possible?