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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 |
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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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