Study Group 9

John Larson

Bill Thompson
Brian Swinyard
Beverly Caine
Fred Drury
John Larson
Shaikh Amin

Mayra Pau

July    Image -  "Station with No Train"
How I did it - The original image was made from a slide and scanned onto a CD by Imagers (company in Atlanta). My family made a trip to St. Louis and I saw this old station in the suburb of St. Charles. I brought the image into CS5 and used Content Aware Fill to remove a garbage can. I then used Filter Gallery and felt that Conte Crayon gave the image an infrared look and stopped there. I tried to work on the upper part of the station to lessen the effect caused by the shadows but didn't find anything I liked. Any ideas?

Comments
Bill Thompson  
Brian Swinyard It will not come as any surprise John, given my penchant for Infra Red and negative images, that I quite like this one. I like the granularity of the building and the fact that the visual information and cues have been reduced to one of monochrome simplicity. I wondered if there would be any merit in playing around with the Motion Blur Filter to create the illusion that a ghostly train has whistled past without stopping.
Beverly Caine I like the overall effect, but to my eye it's just a little "over" bright.
Fred Drury  
Shaikh Amin John-if you think you have achieved what you were looking for then I am happy but your image did not impress me.
Mayra Pau II love it. WOW it looks like something from another dimension, like the twilight zone. Perhaps you can clone it out, with a lot of patience you can use the clone and give it another look. I love your creativity.
 
Member Biography

John Larson – PPSA -
I am very happy to join Group #9 and I am looking forward to an educational and fun experience. Just a little bit in the way of a biography and about some of my interests. I am now 65 years young, a retired engineer now teaching math at Southeastern Community College and married to Ruth. For thirty-eight years I worked as an engineer with both General Electric and Marathon Electric. During that time my responsibilities included managing all of the engineering computer efforts, primarily CAD and CAM. I also had the opportunity to use the computer (IBM compatible) for many reports and presentations related to work. At my college we are using several multimedia programs and the internet to deliver Online Courses. I am now in my fifth generation of a home PC, starting with a Radio Shack Color Computer (just a couple of years ago, ha ha) and now with a clone Pentium IV. My first digital adventures were by having slides scanned to CDs, then a Canon D-30, followed by a Digital Rebel (just replaced by Canon 20D) and for carrying while snow skiing a Canon A720. Some of my other hobbies are photography, started with some classes in 1991, joined PSA in 1994 and sports of several varieties, especially skiing in winter. This combination gives me an excellent chance to blend for example skiing and photography and now computers and photography. I exhibit in PSA exhibitions and have three stars in Color, four stars in PJ and three stars in electronic imaging. I am also the administrator for PJ Digital Imaging and direct the PJ Quarterly Competition. You may note on my web site www.bigjohnlarson.4t.com that I do have the ability to convert digital files to slides and that is available to you if needed. I look forward to reviewing all of your work and look forward to your comments. Please visit my web site listed below for more about me and more of my images. Thanks for letting me join this group.
John Larson
114 Glendale Drive
Burlington, IA 52601
bigjohn@johnlarson.4t.com :