hertha

Year: 2011

  • Textures #3

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    Textures #3

    In this shot I applied the textures and erased the portion covering the flower in the front.  The effect is to distinguish the background.   Panasonic DMC-G1, Lumix G Vario 14-45/F3.5-5.6, ISO 100, 90mm, f/5.6, 1/160s

  • Textures #2

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    Textures #2

    Like the one published yesterday this photograph combines a couple of techniques: Light Painting and Texturing. The light painting enables highlighting of specific areas in the picture. The texturing gives the photograph an aged look. Leica D-Luc 3, 40mm, ISO 100, f/8.0, 40s

  • Textures #1

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    Textures #1

    This week’s photography assignment is on the use of textures.  Applying textures involves post processing with Photoshop (in my case “Elements”).  The process involves opening the photograph and the texture(s) to be applied in PS Elements, then copying the texture image and pasting it as a layer over the photograph.  After pasting the texture change…

  • New Subway Trains

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    The TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) will be deploying new subway trains starting in the next couple of weeks through 2013.  Based on my experience, while the equipment we have now seems comparable to cities like Chicago and New York it falls short of that in Beijing, Hong Kong, Santiago, Caracas, Buenos Aires, to name a…

  • Vimy

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    Vimy

    I was going through my photo collection and I came across this shot from Vimy. At Vimy Ridge in France is the Canadian War Monument commemorating the First War. Encircling the monument are fields where sheep graze. Even today these fields are closed to human traffic because of the risk from unexploded bombs. Leica D-Lux3,…