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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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August 2010

Title - Old Olds

How I did it -

This old car was taken in a junk yard several weeks ago. I processed it in the Photoshop CS 5 raw converter. The image was given a Topaz Adjust treatment and sharpened. Some fine tuning of the background was accomplished with the clone tool and the brush tool. The original image is included below for comparison.

COMMENTS:

Elaine Icklan	Although the background shows its location, a little more blur would bring more attention to this dynamic image. The rust color is a bright red. I'd consider other tones that are less intense but more rust-like. Very well done.
Barbara Mallon	The car treatment is effective. The background is too busy an full of eye traps. I would darken it and the back window.
Tony Tam	The background darker can made the major object stand out. One minor comment is that around front part of the car the grass is lighter than the other. This looks not reality. This might be the selection not accurate enough.
Carolyn Schlueter	Oh what a treat!! Love your capture and everything you have done to create this wonderful image! It rocks ... just like this magnificent Olds used to. Love the way you've saturated this once beautiful old car to bring out all these great colors and changed the roof of the shed behind the car. The only things that are slightly distracting are 1) the pile of rusty pipes or what have you immediately to the right of the car. If you tone those down (especially the one right alongside the car) that will definitely keep our eyes on the car and 2) the old storage tank or whatever it is at the back of the car on the left side. If you tone down the brightness in that, that will also keep a judge looking at the star of the show. It's also cool that part of the windshield glass is missing. If you wanted to 'play' a little bit you might try using an Artistic Filter/Poster Edges Filter so see if it pops more to your liking, but it is a great and exciting picture just as it is and tells a wonderful story (smile).
Adrienne Bergen	I am a major car person, old cars, new cars, fun cars, whatever. I love this image. I love what you were able to do with the software to turn a humdrum image into a dramatic piece. I could look at this image for a long time and still find something new. I am off to shoot New England porches and doors this week and I hope I can treat the image as well in my software edits. Thank you for inspiring me to go beyond my photographs to increase impact without creating graphic art.
Tom McCreary	The car was interesting to start with, but your adjustments really make it great. The colors are really good. Thank goodness that Topaz filters are relatively inexpensive, because my wife purchased Adjust after seeing this image!

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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