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Photographer in Flames

This self portrait was taken in a mirror while brandishing a green flare with the camera on a tripod. I then made a copy layer and adjusted the hue to change the "flames" to red. Then I erased the central portion with a soft brush and partial opacity to get back the original tones on my face and camera body. Finally I cropped and fine-tuned the hue and saturation, contrast and brightness.

Image added: Mar. 2010

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N. Sukumar

I am a scientist, photographer, conservationist, wilderness enthusiast and educator. I was born in Calcutta, India, obtained my Ph.D. in chemisty from Stony Brook, New York, and have worked in the US, India and Germany. I now reside in upstate New York.

I am past-president, ex-webmaster and currently chair of the Fine Arts group at the Schenectady Photographic Society, as well as Editor of its monthly Newsletter, the FOCUS. I have exhibited at several local galleries, won a few awards and have had a couple of images published in art magazines. My main photographic subjects are nature/landscape and figure, my approach to the two being somewhat similar.

I enjoy both wet and digital darkroom work. I still use my first SLR camera, a manual focus Canon AE-1P, for figure work and a Canon Digital Rebel EOS XTi, with Canon EFS 17-85mm USM IS and Canon EF 75-300mm f/1:4-5.6 USM lenses, for landscape and nature photography. A sturdy tripod, a portable reflector, extension tubes and several lenses and filters go with me almost everywhere, but otherwise I'm rather minimalistic in regard to equipment.

I use Adobe Photoshop 5.5, Elements 2.0, ZoomBrowser, JASC PaintShopPro, Genuine Fractals, Andrea Mosaic and Photodex Presenter on a a Dell Inspiron laptop running Windows XP and a Dell Dimension desktop running Win2000 with 512 MB RAM, 40 GB + 20 GB hard disks, 19" monitor, built-in ZIP drive and CD burner, connected to a flatbed+slide+negative scanner and an Epson Stylus Photo 1400 printer.

 

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