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Sol Blechman











 
Dennis Hirning,
Neal R. Thompson, MD
Dennis Hirning, PPSA
Maria Drumm
Timothy D. Morton
Sol Blechman
Shahron Williams von Rooij
Mohamed Terzaki
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February 2010 -- Three Windows

How I did it - I seem to be attracted to things in threes.  So these windows caught my attention as a sort of abstract image.  Considerable fiddling in Transform/Warp was needed to straighten the lines.  To soften the very white whites, I added a very dark layer with a mask and painted a bit of gray.


COMMENTS:
 
Neal R Thompson MD

Interesting abstract.  There is great dynamic range and it must have been difficult to get some detail in both the highlights and the shadows.

Dennis Hirning, PPSA Good eye to notice this. I like the item in the right window that draws the eye. Possibly if it was red or a red flower in a vase it would make a stronger image. Hard to do when you are just walking by. I might like to see a little more on the bottom so the windows are higher in the frame.
Maria Drumm

 

Timothy D. Morton The three windows make illustration and interesting take on ARTICEXTURE and such what can be done with the till and shit optics available.
Shahron Williams von Rooij Nice shadows and what looks like reflections on the middle and right window make this an interesting image. There something on the left edge, looks like a fourth window that wasn't completely cropped out. That's a quick fix, though.
Mohamed Terzaki

Patterns attract me too and the details of the windows are interesting. I think if you rotate the photo 90o cc and do more of the softening for the white areas you will be surprised.


Member Bio
Sol Blechman - Biography

My lifelong photography journey started with a Kodak Duoflex camera presented to me for my 12th birthday. Some 54 years later I find my Canon 20D (with all kinds of equipment in between) a wonderful replacement. I also use a Canon G6 for "easy" work or when I feel lazy about carrying SLR equipment. It has been a pleasure to replace the dark room, the chemicals and the long hours washing prints with digital imaging.

Many of my pictures are taken while traveling but I also believe in the old saw about finding shots in your back yard. So birds, flowers and landscapes near home about equal the people, foreign places and objects I shoot while away.

I am printing now on an Epson 2200 mostly for our local camera club. When we started with digital work a few years ago there were only a very few of us working in digital. Now the category has grown many times over and is the dominant format in the club.


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