The Weekly Photo (Week 17)

Looking for lunch

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The Weekly Photo (Week 16)

Water Iris

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Combining Photos

There are many ways to combine photos. Here are two:

Inset a photo in another  - From the other corner of Café Ludwig.

How do I superimpose a photo on another one?  - From Ask Ludwig.

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The Weekly Photo (Week 15)

Rivalry

Ah, spring! Not only the trees and flowers are blooming, so is … rivalry!

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The Weekly Photo (week 14)

Dogwood Blossoms

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spring is all too short. So enjoy the dogwoods in bloom. In reality as I post this the blossoms have already largely faded away. So take a look at a couple of my other interpretations of dogwood blossoms – as posted in my other blogs:

 

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The Weekly Photo (week 13)

Home Building

Ah, Spring! The trees are blossoming and the green buds are breaking open, the flowers are blooming, and creatures large and small are building nests and homes …

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The Weekly Photo (week12)

You may have noticed my signature on the photo above. When I edit, manipulate, or other wise transform a photo beyond a self-imposed limit, I consider it “art” and sign it.

Since the inception of photography, photos have been retouched, dodged, burned and cropped. Indeed, much of the creative process was accomplished in the darkroom. Master photographers were proud of their printing skills.

Then came Kodachrome and slides. Everything changed. When you clicked the shutter the photo was finished, there was no cropping, no correcting the exposure. You either got it all right, or there was nothing worth showing. Not only did you have to get the composition and exposure right, the cost was such that shooting a whole role of 36 photos was a luxury. I have said it before: Kodachrome was a stern taskmaster – you learned your craft or else!

Digital photography brought another revolution, even more so in recent years as the cameras have became increasingly powerful and sophisticated. We are almost at the point where the camera points itself – indeed some already record images before you press the shutter release. If the exposure is not right on, post-processing can take care of it. If the composition is off, just crop it. If you missed part of the subject, stitch some frames together. It is easy for anyone, even newbies, to fit a part of one photo seamlessly into another.

Yes, quickly I have become sloppy. Just point the camera in the general direction of an interesting subject and let the camera take care of the details. With a little bit of post-processing we can all achieve images that match our minds eye and our memory.

Here are a couple of images as actually recorded:

And here the are they way I thought I saw them.

Isn’t technology marvelous?

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© 2011 Ludwig Keck