Art/Architecture/Design

Notopia

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Psycho Ed and the Carousel From Hell

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It was probably evident in last night’s shot that I was aiming for something on the macabre side. I wonder if there are things I can do to enhance the gothishness a bit. So I played around a little and came up with these four alternate takes.

First, let’s leave Ed as is and desaturate the background.

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Psycho Ed

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Remember Ed? He moved to the big city and started running with the wrong crowd.

Dead Flag Blues – West Seattle

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I took this one this morning and am playing with multiple processing options. What do you think?

Up first, the basic HDR take. That grass isn’t as saturated as you might think – it really is startlingly green around here.

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Space Needle: Polaroid

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As I improve and learn new things I sometimes come back to shots to reprocess and see if I can do better with my new knowledge in hand. I’m revisiting this one, taken last month, for a couple reasons. First, a friend here really liked a process I used on another shot, and second, I got a tutorial this morning from our boy Greg Stene that I thought might help me fix something about the original take. So here we go.