October Reflection

Oh how I wish the glasses were completely in focus instead of the shadow. How'd I manage that? Oh well the colors the day I took this were amazing (10/10/08) and won't come along anytime soon. Also since November is usually a tough month to get shots I put together a Boston Harbor sunset from early August and a houseplant leaf before Jack Frost hits bigtime.

Photomosaics

created with Andrea Mosaic

Mankind is No Island

This video directed by Jason van Genderen recently won Tropfest, NY. It was shot entirely with a cell phone with a budget of $57.

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I have been rather fixated with the notion of perspective lately. But all of life is simply a matter of perspective, yes?!? My perspective can be clouded by my pre-conceived notions about what something is, by my emotions that day, by what angle I am viewing something at, etc. Here I wanted to see what perspective I saw from this glass marble sitting on a glass table under a glass window. Note the church steeple in there? The same one I've been taking pictures of for the last week.

I love the moisture on my windows first thing in the morning and took this photo twice. Once my focal point was outdoors and the other my focal point was the window itself. The colors this particular morning are the yellows and greens of late autumn ... an analogous scheme.

Question for the day. If life is all about perspective - where WILL my focus be today?

Everyone's blogs...

...are just really fun to read - thank you for sharing them with me. Your work rocks! I can see your personality in your photos and that is amazing. I knew it happened with studio art, but never really noticed it until I taught digi photo online. Because I don't see students in person - but I do see them through their work.

The differences in optics

The top photo was taken out of a window with a Canon A70 Powershot. It was shot at 180 dpi with 2048x1536 pixels and was originally 1.08MB. I took it into Photoshop, cropped it and straightened the tower, and then "sharpened" the steeple. I always change the dpi to 72 because I work pretty much exclusively on the web. The final photo is 377x260 and a mere 108KB.

The third shot down was taken with my Nikon D40. Of course I got a much better photo because I was able to change the F-stop and focus on what I wanted. The original is at 300dpi and is 2000x3008 pixels. I brought it into Photoshop and straightened the tower, cropped it a bit and played with the color saturation. Then I saved it at 72dpi and the final shot is 533x711 and a mere 137KB.

You can definitely see really lost no detail in the photo taken with the SLR. The amount of things I did to the Canon shot really affected its quality and you can actually see the pixels in it!

Perspective II

Perspective is all about Point of View. It's a way to "know" something better or to judge it. What is the relationship that is has to something else? Well here I am thinking about the perspective of time. There is almost a quarter of a century between the guy at the top and the guy below marrying the beautiful princess. There was not even digital photography when he was born, these photos had to be scanned to become digitized. Photoshop is a wonderful tool for making collages like this...