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Study Group 7
Kenneth Deitcher, MD, FPSA










 
Kenneth Deitcher
Elaine Icklan
Barbara Mallon
Charlie Pettis
Shirley Ramaley
John Rodete
Dewey Val Schorre
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tropical tree frog

July 2008

Title -Jumping Ou

How I did it -

This tropical tree frog was taken in my studio several years ago with a film camera and the slide scanned into my computer. I created the frame in a program called SPLAT. The frame was placed on separate layer and sized using the transform tool. In order to get the frog's head outside of the frame I selected a portion of the head and pasted it into a layer above the frame and flattened the image. This gave the appearance of the frog looking out of the frame.

 

COMMENTS:

Elaine Ickland

Having the frog's head and foot placed outside the frame is very appropriate. Your choice of frame complements the image. Very clever and humorous.

Barbara Mallon

I like the frog coming out of the frame. Somehow it is too contrasty for my taste.

Charlie Pettis

Coming through! A small drop shadow of the frame would add depth. The frog and board are clearly 3D.

Shirley Ramaley

I love the idea of this, however I am confused as to the frog's face, as it looks like he has a double nose. Maybe it's just me. I think this would be better without that outside frame, but maybe you added it because you knew there would be a dark background. But it looks like the frog is looking out of one frame into another. Good catchlight in its eye. You might lighten up its underside a bit. What a great shot - I'm wondering if you brought the frog into your studio.

John Rodete

It is not easy. I just can't get the results you get.

Dewey Val Schorre

This picture has the strongest center of interest I have ever seen because of the circular eye and the snout overlapping the frame. There is a thin brown line at the bottom left, which seems to be a mistake.



Member Bio
Kenneth Deitcher, MD, FPSA - Biography
 
I am a semi-retired Pediatrician who has been interested in photography for over 50 years. I work in a hospital clinic 2 mornings a week and devote much of my free time to photography. I have been officer and president of the Schenectady Photographic Society which was founded over 75 years ago. I have been a District Representative of the Photographic Society of America for many years. I have written innumerable articles for the PSA Journal and have entered many salons. I have an Editorial Gold Star and I am a 4 star exhibitor in Nature Salons. At the present time I am Chairman of the Digital Group in our local Camera Club. Many of my nature images have been published in textbooks and foreign photo magazines.

Over the past 6 years I have gone from conventional darkroom work to the digital darkroom. I have a PC with a Pentium II processor with 256 meg of RAM. I am running Windows 98, Picture Publisher 8 and Photoshop 6.0. I have used Canon equipment for over 30 years and recently purchased a Canon EOS D30 digital camera. I use a Umax Astro 1220U flatbed scanner, a Canoscan FS 2710 film scanner and an Epson 1280 Stylus printer. I am eclectic in my subject material but prefer nature subjects. I try to get to many photo events in the Albany, New York area but I am somewhat limited by a chronic arthritis condition.

I have been quite satisfied with my digital images acquired with my digital camera. I do believe that the photographer makes the image not the camera. It takes a good photograph to make a good digital image.

 


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