Study Group 2
Ron Alexander

Title - Evelyn's Place

July 2010 Image

How I did it - Visitors to New Orleans will shudder and increase their pace to get past Evelyn's Place. But actually it's a very convivial neighborhood bar in the French Quarter, serving good, standard New Orleans food. It is a favorite of many native Orleanians. Camera was my Canon 5D, f/7, 1/400. I cropped and had to eliminate part of an auto in the left lower corner. I wanted to try the CS5 Content Aware tool, using the Healing Brush first, then the Fill Dialog Box. Neither approach worked perfectly, probably because of the highly variegated background in the street. It left a lot of peripheral auto fragments that I had to clone out. I then saturated and used the detail tool in Topaz.

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Member Bio

Ron Alexander - Biography  In thirty years as an academic pathologist, specimen photography and photomicroscopy were an everyday process in the lab; producing 35-mm slides for teaching, demonstration and academic publishing. (You would not hang such pictures on the wall.) In semi-retirement I did artistic wood turnings and some sculptures, and learned the problems of photographing artwork. I still teach part-time at Tulane Medical School, here in New Orleans, and devote all other time to photography and writing.