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Barneys 500
One of the things I love about New York is the creativity of the store windows. Barneys has some of the best displays. This is the Barneys 500 – a race course for shoes that ran across windows in the front and side of the store.
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Fiesta DC 2012
Fiesta DC parade went down Pennsylvania Avenue this afternoon. I have taken photos of a number of parades along this route – and it remains a challenge to get good shots – crowds in the way, strong light and heavy shadows, usually costumes with hats that shade the faces, busy backgrounds, etc. So I took…
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Zezeh Brazilian Dance
At the 2012 Adams Morgan Day festival
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Photo experiment – day 31 of 31
This month has been fun trying new things. I’m glad to be done, and glad I actually managed to stick to something for 31 days in a row. It’s been a useful way to become less hesitant about experimenting – with the daily task of trying a new technique, I haven’t worried about waiting to…
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Photo experiment day 30 of 31
Today’s experiment is a image made into a half-tone, with dots somewhere between newpaper-sized and Lichtenstein-sized, using Photoshop’s filters.
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Photo experiment day 29 of 31
You could wait forever to catch two trains absolutely simultaneous in the Metro, or use Photoshop to create a mirror image like this –
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Photo experiment – day 28 of 31
Today’s experiment (actually, from last night): out-of-focus lights. Done by setting the camera focus to up close, and the aperture wide open (50mm 1.4 lens) while photographing lights at a distance – here, on Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Photo experiment – day 27 of 31
Today’s experiment is taking a new photo and making it look old, by applying texture layers, experimenting with the blend modes and opacity until it looks good.
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Photo experiment – day 26 of 31
Today’s experiment is turning a photo into the look of a pencil sketch. The sketch was created with the Tiffen Dfx plugin for Photoshop. I tried a couple of other things first – the Photoshop sketch and other artistic filters, and Topaz Simplify, but none of them gave the look I wanted. I ended…
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Photo experiment – day 25 of 31
Today’s experiment is taking an old pre-digital photo in bad shape, and adding enough grunge texture to it that the flaws get less visible among the new grunge. The grunge was added in Photoshop – actually 2 grunge texture layers were added, with varying degrees of opacity and blend modes.