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Jessica Manelis











 
Richard Pease
Jessica Manelis
Tuan Tran
John Beamer
Judy Merson
Dorinda Wills
Fritz Grupe
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January

Scotomata

How I did it

This was taken on a photo walk in Medford, NJ.  It is an abandoned building.  I added effects in PS CS5 and Colorefx Pro.  I would like to know if you think the wires are distracting.

 


COMMENTS:
Richard Pease What a cool shot! I love the post processing and the addition of sepia to make this image memorable.
Tuan Tran
John Beamer
Judy Merson I like the Sepia tone. It makes for a dreamy scene. I find the left wire with the vines hanging from it intriguing, but I would use your CS5 content aware spot healing brush to remove the right line. Then I would crop out more of the bottom. Or I would crop the top to eliminate the bare part of the left wire just leaving the vines and take out the right wire as before.
Dorinda Wills I think I would like it better if  you cropped out the sky.  That solves the wire problem also.  I would just leave a tiny bit of sky above the peak of the building.  With a crop I find it more engaging as it gives the feeling you are peering through the dead grass at the abandoned building, which really is your subject.
Fritz Grupe I don’t find the wires to be distracting. They seem to add to the “flow” of the picture by moving the eye down to the building, down the building side, across and up the stronger plants that rise to the right. This is a circular flow. I don’t find the garage itself to be particularly interesting, however. The orange color does seem real.


Member Bio
Jessica Manelis - Biography

I have been creating art since grade school. At age 11, I began taking art classes every Saturday afternoon. Throughout high school, I continued drawing and painting in a variety of mediums and ultimately settled at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, pursuing a career in the professional arts.

While at Moore, I received many accolades from my instructors and won competitions where my work was featured in magazines. Upon graduation, I settled in to a career as a graphic designer. Finding that creatively stunting, I set out to pursue my true creative passion.

Self-taught, I fell in to photography as a means of generating reference photos for future art projects. However, I found the photo process was more fun. Embracing the medium, my work has been exhibited in several group shows in Huntington, NY, Bethesda, MD, and Philadelphia, PA, most recently at The Philadelphia Sketch Club's Photography 2010 exhibit in October.

Currently I live with my husband, two kids and two dogs in southern New Jersey.

Like most photographers, I am always looking for that unique perspective or "special something" in an image. My work embraces various styles from clean crisp well-defined images with an interesting and vital point of view to compelling composition and fresh simplicity. My aim is to
entice the viewer to look at the details to become aware of the color and form of the subject. Even when using textures to enhance a photo, the viewer is drawn in and the subject maintains its focus and importance.


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