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...

Macro and Micro

Walks along the side of the road yield amazing photos. Sometimes I find something interesting and work hard at composition - taking into account how the different aspects of the photo inter-relate to form a whole. But I believe that an ordinary shot can become extraordinary if...

...viewed through a macro lens. What the macro len allows me to do is see detail, and detail is where I can observe the overlooked. I really like the macro lens because I can feel the texture of things through it.

This Zen photo completely transformed when I retook it with a macro lens...

and got deeper and deeper, zooming in to it see ever greater detail. Soon I became unable to make out what it was.

And saw the actual pixels which make up the photo. Amazing they are all square. How do the photographs have round features? Did you know that pixels do not have a certain size? You determine the size when you set the photograph's resolution!

Collagr.com

There are many collage-making tools. This collage is made from a "set" that I made on Flickr. First I loaded the photos up to Flickr. Once there I clicked the ORGANIZE tab at the top of the screen. At the next screen I dragged and dropped the photos from the ribbon at the bottom into the window. Then I saved it as a set and gave it a name. I clicked back to my Flickr HOME page, and clicked on the set name on the right in order to get its URL. That URL was pasted into the BUILD IT box on: www.collagr.com There are several options on collagr for the display and this version is called "stitched."

Once collagr built my collage I saved the photo to my desktop then loaded it to this blog!

Collage with Picasa

Burlington Vermont July 3, 2008

To make a collage fast and easy - put your photos in a file somewhere on your computer and then open Picasa. On the right hand side locate the file name and click on it which highlights the name and the photos that are in there. On the bottom toolbar click "collage" and you have many presentation options. After you find one you like simply "create" it and save it where you wish!

Compare and Contrast - Perspective

Ever since the 1980s when I became interested in recycling I have been fascinated with the physical things in our life that we take for granted. I think we buy a lot of things that we dispose of very quickly and I try to remind myself of that often. Both shots are of the container that has already been emptied of my favorite splurge. The photo at the top was taken while I was holding the bottle with one hand and the camera with the other. This is the shot taken with the flash, I tried it without and the results were poor. For the bottom shot I did not use the flash. I like the star design and the out of focus frame of the top shot. But if I was in the advertising department I would prefer the bottom shot with the V8 logo front and center like it is!

A New Semester

Well it's the beginning of a new semester so that must mean Karen is moving again. This is the fourth time in the last six years and every time it seems to get worse and worse. Home I believe - is a good thing. Let's hope I've found one...