Study Group 7
Kenneth Deitcher, MD, FPSA









 
Kenneth Deitcher
Elaine Icklan
Barbara Mallon
Tony Tam
Carolyn Schlueter
Adrienne Bergen
Tom McCreary 
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January 2012

Title - Colorful Music

How I did it -

This image was created for a club competition last month. It consists of 3 images combined in PS. The music score was a photo of a piano lesson my daughter used over 40 years ago. I pasted on top a silhouette of a painter taken 30 years ago on a field trip to Atlanta that was converted, using threshold ( image/adjust/threshold) to create the silhouette. Several of the black notes were painted to add interest. Using a very old program I made a fractal pattern for the background. I combined all the images to make the final image. I am attaching the original music with colored notes. In pasting this on top of the background, I used the blend mode - multiply, to get rid of the white background of the notes.
As an aside I didn't win.  The original is below.


COMMENTS:
Elaine Icklan What can I say? Creative, interesting and fun. Goes to show Fractals haven't died yet and you have put the program to very good use.
Barbara Mallon What a fantastic creation. I like the juxtaposition of the violin like scroll and the music and painter. Sepia tone works! Incredibly creative and beautiful!
Tony Tam I like the silhouette of the painter. My comments are 1. The fractal pattern on the right side does not help the image. I would reduce this pattern and have the music notes over it. 2. The whole page seems too dark except the right side pattern on my monitor.
Carolyn Schlueter You must have quite a gallery of photos if some are from 30 years ago and the best part is that you remembered what you have!!! This is quite an interesting composite and I love your concept, but something about it just doesn't work for me. I find the bright white swirl in the off-white/cream background of what looks like it could be part of a violin on the right distracting as my eye was drawn directly to that and not the music and silhouette of the painter. Being a musician myself, I'm wondering how the subject would look if you just keep the background to the notes white so it would be easier and more appealing to read the music and comments and maybe flipping the painter so we would read from left to right and bingo there he would be on our right anchoring the notes. The colored notes are cool! Love seeing creative work!
Adrienne Bergen This is a nice graphic. I especially like the silhouette which makes it all seem a bit more dynamic than if it was just the music alone. The background is pleasing.

Tom McCreary

 I really like your idea of the painter, painting the music. However, I am not sure that I like the fractal pattern that you have added behind the music. It seem to take my eye away from the painter and music. Coloring some of the notes is a nice effect.

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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