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Image Manipulation:
Part of a new Set called, I'm Touched.
Thanks to the artists for the non commericial use of their Photoshop Brushes:
Vector line dots by IHEA on Deviantart
Cloud Background by Urban Retro SaveAiEdition Deviantart
Glow Brushes by Hawksmont Deviantart
Backgrounds are actual photographs by me
Looks best free viewed, but an animated gif version is below for convenience.
Details
St. Sophia Orthodox church, Valley Forge, PA, hosted a fall carnival with several colorful rides.
Technical trivia
Stereo realist loaded with Fuji Reala 100.
Image manipulations and gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay. -Robert Frost
Digital image manipulation. Photo art created from a single photograph that I took. Involved color saturation, focal zoom, color polarization, selected rectangular size manipulation, etc.
To see the animated image source scroll down to the first comment below or view original size (look above in the "actions" menu).
Details and History
The Library of Congress website offers a multitude of historical images, many with no known restrictions on use. This 1860 Pennsylvania Photographic Society stereograph is titled Group taken at W.H.W.'s residence in Altoona, Pa. The reverse offers this cryptic identification: Mary H r; Mary W n; Joe W n (likely photographer and engineer Joseph Miller Wilson); John T s; & Mrs. W n .
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The purpose here is not to duplicate the original image, from the Library of Congress website, but to generate a downloadable animated gif to assist viewing and presentation. The original image has no known restrictions on use: www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005686140/ .
Technical trivia
Contrast was enhanced using Jeff Masamori's quick method (generate a copy, equalize histogram, then blend with the original). Subsequent image manipulations and animated gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.
the original here was a heart shaped flame - and a nightshot - but I like it this way ....
large View On Black (recommended)
The title comes from the native phrase "Walk in Beauty".. and in this case refers to the leaves displaying beauty in this phase, which is, in itself leaving the beauty they once had.
The treatment is a homegrown blending, based very loosely on a manipulation technique referred to as the Orton Technique.
These are hydrangea leaves collected from my front walk.
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Part of an ongoing experiment with image manipulation: The images are the result of a 2 stage process. First, a photo is taken of a moving subject. What results is a blurred image, the distortion magnified by the grain and contrast achieved by overdevelopment of the film in the darkroom. Already the face or body has been transformed by the simple act of movement. Then in the second stage, the photo is printed. Sometimes thick glossy varnish is applied across the whole surface of the image, or alternatively, the photo is simply printed onto glossy paper. This is when more magic happens. Shining light directly onto the surface of the paper, the image is transformed again. This time the transforming agent is light. The surface of the photograph interacts with what is contained within the image. A final photo is taken.
Image manipulation:
Decided to add the Turkey Vulture to the photo. Turkey vultures have gotten common around here for some reason, living in the hills above Morgan Park. Occasionally you'll find them sitting in a tree a dozen feet or so above the ground. They look odd sitting in a tree, and make sure you don't threaten them, they have a unique way of defending them selves. They force strong stomach acids in your direction.
Before the explosion of Scanners,Photoshop and other image manipulation tools, I used to do collages, often using Ephemera such as this. Finding ways to isolate areas that i wanted to capture was a challenge for me back then- often leaving me frustrated with the final result.
Due to todays "Snow Day" in Chicago, and not being able to safely;y drive to my studio (and back) i chose to go through some older files- and ran across these beauties, that I thought I'd share w/ my flickr homies!
Enjoy!
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My Kitchen Window (with forsythia)
For Snap Game windowsill and some yellow on the previous picture made me think of this one.
You can't really tell from this picture, but the glass in the window is what some of us call *wavy* glass and it was about 90 years old at the time. I don't have the house any more, but the window is now 110 years old.
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Sorry this isn't much bigger, but I took it with a Polaroid Camera back around 1990, and did some sliding on it, way before I even knew what sliding was. I dated it 2003 on the picture itself, as that is the year I was trying to learn how to post it and how to put script on my photo.
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"For ABCs and 123s ~ K is for Kitchen Window"
For Dave C., the *soul* of this one was me learning how, right there in this kitchen, to do Polaroid Manipulations. What fun I had!
“A special place in my portfolio is taken by a sub-series which I call Transformations. In this work my fascination for rhythm is also the central theme, but the origin of these images is usually not a single shot from existing buildings. It can be a great exercise to create new worlds by re-using or combining different images. Sometimes it is a subtle change of color that changes everything, but also more radical image manipulation open new possibilities.” Transformations: Reeling In The Years by Paul Brouns (¾)
two variations of Amazing Circles, inset back into an altered version of the feather details photo they were made from..
There were some layered duplicates of the two circles, set to blend differently after using the radial blur filter .. all in Photoshop.. two separate macro images of the peacock feather edge were used and color-altered separately, using Hue/Saturation layers.
The starry night was made using photoshops Noise filter, altered at different stages using the Threshold image adjustment, blurring with Gaussian Blur, then adding more noise.
I followed the procedure, first, as outlined here: brilliantdays.com/archives/2005/10/how_to_create_a.php ,
and in the flickr Amazing Circles group: www.flickr.com/groups/amazingcircles/discuss/116859/
I Am using the basic wondrous polar coordinates transformations as beautiful in and of themselves, but also as starting points for grounding them in their origins and/or creating new relationships for them.
the power of olympus pen
no image manipulation,
no other shortcuts.
i used a hoya polfilter,nothing else.
fresh " out of the olympus pen ".
for more details,please look the exif.
It was a dark and stormy night when the power shut down the boat. Floating endlessly, riding on the current of despair, they prayed for the light. When the storm stopped its relentless downpour, they are in the middle of no where, "Lost at Sea" with only the full moon and a lost bird to guide them.
Karma the Cat with pansies I grew. This is a Polaroid SX-70 Manipulation, Impression, or Alteration. I took the original picture, but had to reach up under the bench and wiggle the pansy with one hand while taking the picture with the other. :0)
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there was an interesting article yesterday by trey ratcliffe, a photographer whose work got me started with HDR a year ago, and who has had the honor of having the first HDR image displayed by the smithsonian institution, about his submission this year being disqualified because it was digitally enhanced.
i can understand having a separate category for digitally altered images -- those that change the original content of the picture.
my opinion on this is that digital photography is, by definition, digitally enhanced and that a pixel has a long journey from RAW file to JPG.
to start with, various makes of cameras create different types of RAW, and RAW is subsequently converted differently by varying types of software.
it's up to the photographer's discretion whether he/she wants the image straight out of the camera or tweaked here and there -- or processed greatly -- in order to convey thoughts, emotions, or even to more accurately convey what the human eye saw at the time, which is often way more than a camera can possibly grab.
there's nothing inherently superior or inferior to an image that's SOOC and it says little about the skill of the photographer.
color enhancement is not the same as color replacement or adding / subtracting elements to a picture -- and there certainly is a difference in requirements between photo journalism, and photo art / personal expression.
so someone will have to show me one digital image that was not effected by software.
additionally, i'd like to see one film image that was not a result of decisions in the darkroom by burning, dodging, by choice of paper, etc., etc., etc.
finally, what is more important -- what a piece of equipment sees -- or what the photographer wants to show?
more reading here, here and here.
the above image was taken by a canon 40D camera in RAW (CR2) format. i then decided to change the white balance to fluorescent (thus the blue tinge) and sharpened up the image with a filter. it's not SOOC. but it's exactly what i want it to be.
i'd appreciate your thoughts, especially if i haven't understood something, or just for fun.
finally, the image's title is because yesterday was earth day and because pale blue dot is prominent in my mind.
on the blog: toomanytribbles.blogspot.com/2009/04/pale-blue-dandy.html