Abstract Photo - 7/23/14: "Screened In" 2 versions

NF Photography prompt: Abstract Photo

"SCREENED IN"

After an evening event at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh,

I noticed a new, large, screened structure behind the museum.  With lights on

inside the structure, which appeared to be a storage area for large equipment,

I liked the designs created by the dark lines, screens, and lights, so I snapped

a few photos.  I wondered why some of the structure (black pieces) were

closer together and why there was a diagonal piece and a very thin one with a

curved corner. But that made the design more interesting than if the black

lines had been the same width, all vertical and horizontal and evenly spaced. 

I decided this image made a great abstract without any

enhancement at all. But, of course, I decided to have a bit of fun with it.

"SCREENED IN #2"
á la Mondrian

Because of the geometric design created by black lines in the original photo,

I decided to make this image resemble a Mondrian painting using primary

colors, black and white.  After making the image more vertical and horizontal

with Photoshop's distort tool (to undistorted it) I created 4 new layers above
the original photo, one for each color and white. On the red, blue, and
yellow layers, I changed the mode from normal to color. I selected
the sections I wanted red and filled them with red and did the
same for blue and yellow.  I left the fourth layer in normal mode

and filled in the sections I wanted to be white, then made the layer

transparent enough to see some of the texture of the screen. Using color

mode doesn't allow very light or very dark areas to accept color, so for the

very lightest spots, I used 3 more normal mode layers for the primary
colors, colored each and then made them transparent so a hint of
color would be visible on those very light areas.