May 25, 2008: Sunday

By luminousprint on May 25, 2008

I celebrated my 63rd birthday a few days ago. At least I think I celebrated and did not mourn it. I’ve been spending more and more time with image manipulation, learning new techniques and some of the extraordinary possibilities offered by today’s “digital darkroom” (or “lightroom” as some prefer to call it). For instance, attached is a picture assembled from a magic wand cut out of my son Sam playing his Master’s Recital at UIUC imposed against a sky shot and imposed graphic water designs plus a planet generation, also magic-wanded and imposed in a layer. I took the shot of Sam in low light with high ISO (my D200 could not handle what, say, a D3 could do) and unfortunately enlarged w/o the necessary bicubic “sharper” interpolation. I.e., lousy quality. But at least the entire composite suggests the exciting possibilities.