Study Group 16 Member 4

Study Group 16
Dr. Mohanan Nair

Barb Athanasiou

Sarah Donner

July Image - Bottled Path

How I did it :

The original photo was taken using the mobile phone's aim and shoot camera facility. The layer was duplicated and rotated to about 85 degrees. The position was adjusted and this layer was again duplicated. The third layer was flipped and moved to the left side. The position was adjusted again. Unwanted portions were removed using erase option. After merging the layers, one cap was selected and Hue & saturation was adjusted to have the red colour.

COMMENTS:

Barb Athanasiou What a creative thing to do with an already interesting shot! I love the final picture and coloring the one cap was a really great idea. This would be a great shot for the topic ‘leading lines’ if something were added in the top center.

Sarah Donner Nice job. I like the pink cap. I will have to try your technique. I am always looking for something new... and there is SO much of that around. Good work!

Kathy Goldner I was impressed with your bottle art. Very clever.

Sally Grugan
Very interesting. Excellent example of "creative seeing".
Changing the color of one cap made it the center of interest. I think you should enter this image in a salon.

Timothy D. Morton Thus shows you if you spend some time even phones today can take powerful illustrations and feel it's made by the tiny yellow border which makes one think of H20 and all those bottles and where do they go after we place them in our recycle broses etc.

Charles Blume Great shot and manipulation. Nice colors. 5 stars !

Member Bio

Dr. Mohanan Nair - Biography

I belong to Trivandrum, Kerala state ("God's Own Country"), the southern part of India. Did my post-graduation from Kerala University and Doctorate from Kurukshetra University. Currently I am working as a scientist at the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvanathapuram, Kerala after a long service of 21 years at Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India. Photography, travel and listening to music are my hobbies.

Even though I was attracted towards photography from childhood, I purchased my first camera, an Agfa-Isolly-II (120mm fixed focus) from my first salary in 1980. After 13 years, in 1993 I got a professional camera Pentax K1000. Two more digital cameras were added to my small collection subsequently. The interest in photography as an art started after my visit to XXIII All India Salon of Photography by the Lucknow Camera Club. I joined this club to learn more about photography and started participating in local as well as national salons. I took PSA membership in 2003. I do not have much dark room experience as my photographs are developed and printed at professional studios. Digital images are processed by self using Photoshop (Ver. 6 & CS). I consider my self as a student of photography as well as Photoshop and look forward to learning these from other experienced members of PSA.

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