This image resulted from the first time I did a high
resolution scan back in 1997....just to play. By creating a second
copy of the file, running it through a "Colored Pencil"
filter, then selectively cloning the two files together, I ended
up with this result. I might have spent 45 minutes total on it,
but it's hard to judge time when you're playing.
One day, my good friend Alan, who I am attempting to
drag kicking & screaming into the digital age, dropped by with
a slide he'd taken years ago. Before his very eyes, I changed it
into this. He hasn't been the same since.....
Hey, sometimes you have to play, and do things just
because you *can*, in order to learn. The "base image"
of this creation was shot over a decade ago, while I was attending
Portfolio Center. I downloaded a GIF animation program, and decided
to try and animate the background colors.
It's not like it's never been done before....
....but it's never been done by me. I'm talking about the de rigueur
digital background replacement trick. You know, when you've got
a nicely sidelit shot from below of the Air Force Thunderbirds,
against a deadly boring blue sky. Just step out onto your balcony
and capture the low bottom lit clouds of a clearing storm (in which
the Thunderbirds would never fly). Place both slides into the appropriate
digital slot, point and click for a while, and presto-chango, you
get the image to the right.
