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photo by Donald Kinney
When I first showed this photo (taken December 5) on Facebook, I didn't explain until a few hours into the deception that the bottom half of the photo was indeed a bit of Photoshop trickery. Oh, I just couldn't resist. The idea came from our local community access TV station that has been showing a mirrored image of the Marin Civic Center which looks, for all intents and purposes, just like a perfect reflection coming off of the nearby lagoon.
Of course, in my photo here of the City, I gave the lower half a bit of a ripple effect, as well as stretching it a bit to make it look a bit more realistic. In reality I doubt if the bay ever has that smooth of a surface.
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So anyway, all of this tom-foolery reminded me of a website I did from March 2005 to May 2011, where each and every day I would pair a square image with a rectangular image. The "Daily Duo", and while I had great fun producing it each and every morning I doubt if more than a few people actually followed the site on a regular basis.
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It wasn't long before I discovered that sometimes with just one image, I could take a square section of a the left side of a rectangular image, reverse that, then join the square with the rectangle.
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Depending on the subject, sometimes the technique worked and sometimes it didn't. In any case, I had g-r-e-a-t f-u-n with the "Daily Duo", which I believe is the whole point of not only photography, but life in general.
3 comments:
Today, you could almost have gotten that San Francisco shot without the trickery - the bay was like a sheet of satin all day. And likely to be the same tomorrow - if you are on the bay side of the world, you could get some amazing photos.
Great pictures! Very interesting!
Let me quote one of your favorite photographers: “You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”
― Ansel Adams
So it's not "just" photoshopped. You bring to each photo a heck of a lot more than a program.
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