Memories Of Athena
While Mrs Mail and I were cruising the grounds of our cultural precinct, we passed a statue that I have shot before, but from the front.
Mrs Mail suggested I shoot from the rear. Honestly, without a word of a lie. I was encouraged to do this shot.
The interesting thing about it is, that immediately I saw it, I remembered that most famous of tennis shots that apparently titillated millions of red blooded tennis players around the world plus me in 1976 when the magazine Athena posted the image.
This poor girl was looking for her tennis balls, and they had somehow slipped out.
Just in case you aren't male, and are younger than 33, there is a downloaded copy of the shot below, which just might be copyrighted.
For the Photshop group and the 7DOS group.
The buildings in the background were quite distracting, so the easiest solution was to create a duplicate of the background shot into a new layer, then blur it strongly, and using a soft edged eraser, put a hole in the blurred layer to reveal just the statue. Statues like these that are very monotone also do not present well in a photo, so I increased the saturation on the background layer to make it stand out more.
Statues and Sculptures Theme (Yes, I know I seem to have been posting too many bare bottoms this week.)
Memories Of Athena
While Mrs Mail and I were cruising the grounds of our cultural precinct, we passed a statue that I have shot before, but from the front.
Mrs Mail suggested I shoot from the rear. Honestly, without a word of a lie. I was encouraged to do this shot.
The interesting thing about it is, that immediately I saw it, I remembered that most famous of tennis shots that apparently titillated millions of red blooded tennis players around the world plus me in 1976 when the magazine Athena posted the image.
This poor girl was looking for her tennis balls, and they had somehow slipped out.
Just in case you aren't male, and are younger than 33, there is a downloaded copy of the shot below, which just might be copyrighted.
For the Photshop group and the 7DOS group.
The buildings in the background were quite distracting, so the easiest solution was to create a duplicate of the background shot into a new layer, then blur it strongly, and using a soft edged eraser, put a hole in the blurred layer to reveal just the statue. Statues like these that are very monotone also do not present well in a photo, so I increased the saturation on the background layer to make it stand out more.
Statues and Sculptures Theme (Yes, I know I seem to have been posting too many bare bottoms this week.)