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Stan Hill
{K:35352} 8/29/2009
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Thanks Tom, I have been teaching PS to myself and was exploring when I came up with this. Thanks for the compliment and encouragement..I too was thinking of the grim reaper. Glad you liked it.
be well, Stan
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Tom Ravisé
{K:5082} 8/29/2009
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one of your best! a very beautiful colors degrate.
For me, the black form represents the reaper of life. I don't know what's his your.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 3/21/2009
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That's very right, Stan! The quality is generated mainly with the shot. It is only altered with additional work, but its generation is in the camera.
And another right thing to do is to avoid a priory assigninment of pre-constructed symbolical meanings to images, as you say. The impression of each spectator will generate such a "meaning" since there is no such thing as "inherent meaning" of any image. I see too many guys trying to tell what their images symbolically stand for but it never really works. Just keep it up this way and keep well too.
Cheers!
Nick
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Stan Hill
{K:35352} 2/18/2009
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Thanks Nick, I am just glad that this image stands on it's own and presents itself to others imaginations. Fun to read the replies and the visuals others describe they see in it. I tried several color renditions but this one really was the one I liked. Thanks for your insight and encouragement. My goal is to have fun and not be in a fixed mindset that would keep me from being more creative. The great thing about the camera and today's technology is the endless permutations possible when post processing. Needless to say, if it is good out of camera you have more to work with.
Be well my friend, Stan
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Stan Hill
{K:35352} 2/18/2009
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Hi Andy, I was thinking another title could be "The Ice Man Comes Home." So interesting to read what this image evokes for different people. It is fun to just delve into PS and see what happens. I am learning CS2 from a 9 DVD set I found at a thrift store. I am slowly getting it. Many of my images are out of camera with only a levels adjustment and maybe some contrast and brightness. So glad that this is a fun image for you as well. Have a great day and be well, Stan
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Andy Seehusen
{K:3372} 2/18/2009
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Maybe the returning heat is beginning to afect my eye, I like this shot becuase every time I return to it I see something different. The composition and layering of colors really wroks well. One minute I see a widow mourning her husband, another a wanderer enjoying a walk through a valley. Thanks for sharing these shots.
andy
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 2/18/2009
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Normally such a work is not really my case, Stan, simply because most of the time I see "smudges" with no concept. But in this case we see exactly the opposite. Yes, it is heavily re-touched but it is an integrated, tight image, where the method followed the concept and not the other way around. I would really take this one in a small series of examples about retouching and what it is able to generate.
And here it generates something between a real scene and an imaginary one, or if you like some kind of "simulation" of what one might "see" in mind as a vague kind of remembrance or vision. What I find so striking is that the image is not flat at all. The mounts are far far behind the Grim Reaper. He seems to wander silently in the middle of nowhere out of no particular reason.
Another thing that I find very well presented is the color transition from the top to the feet of the mountains. It looks exactly as it should look and still it inludes the special look of an abstraction.
In front of such good work I don't care that much what it has really been because it counts much more what it *is* for my eye exactly the way it is.
Cheers!
Nick
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Stan Hill
{K:35352} 2/18/2009
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Thanks Andy, I liked the colors too! I was playing with some gradients and came up with this. Winter does strange things to me and my muse. Have a good one.
be well, Stan
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Andy Seehusen
{K:3372} 2/18/2009
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Great abstract. I like the colors and compostion.
andy
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Stan Hill
{K:35352} 2/8/2009
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Hi Harry, actually a silhouette of Johnny Walker surrounded by ice. Have a great day my friend.
Be well, Stan
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Wolf Zorrito
{K:78768} 2/8/2009
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Ice in your johhny walker/ 4 roses
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Stan Hill
{K:35352} 2/1/2009
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Thanks Jacques, Marty looks at a lot of images. He has a great eye for detail!! Your eye is also up for the challenge as well. Have a good day of rest.
Be well, Stan
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jacques brisebois
{K:73883} 2/1/2009
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an interesting play Stan, great abstract from the ice formation, real nice work.
Martin is a great eye...
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Stan Hill
{K:35352} 2/1/2009
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Thanks Mojgan, the curl off the roof was really nice of the ice!!! I liked the ripples in the ice.
Be well, Stan
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Mojgan Bahasadri
{K:16243} 1/31/2009
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Oh yes Stan it's very interesting natural abstract!
very creative and original !!
best to you my dear friend,
Mojgan
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Stan Hill
{K:35352} 1/30/2009
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Thanks Shirley, I was playing with some layers and gradients. This just kind of created itself as I was poking around. It met the criteria of me liking it, so here it is. Have a great weekend. I get to do some portraits of some hair stylist at a salon tomorrow!! I am going to set up in the salon and just go for it. I am pumped up.
Be well, Stan
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Shirley D. Cross-Taylor
{K:174199} 1/30/2009
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Very interesting natural abstract, Stan. I like the coloring you've added.:)
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Stan Hill
{K:35352} 1/30/2009
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I did not think your eyes would miss this one. Obama said to tell you the check is in the mail!! I really was not trying to be to tricky!
Be well, Bop
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Stan Hill
{K:35352} 1/30/2009
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Thanks Dave, I increased it to 100% and just looked for something abstract. Morning madness, old man wake up early and play with photoshop.
Be well, Stan
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Martin .
{K:24957} 1/30/2009
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Wild Old Man,
This was not a guess, but I do have eyes and can see what this it... hehehe
Anyone that has studied photography would know this... ;)
An "A", is this all I get? I thought some cash might be involved? LOL
Marty
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Dave Stacey
{K:150877} 1/30/2009
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Nicely done abstract from the original shot, Stan!
Dave.
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Stan Hill
{K:35352} 1/30/2009
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Thanks Saad, just was in a blue mood so to speak. Marty guessed it as ice cycles!! Glad you liked it!
Be well, Stan
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Stan Hill
{K:35352} 1/30/2009
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Thanks Arian, fun is good!!! Have a great weekend.
Thanks for the nice words and rating!
Be well, Stan
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Stan Hill
{K:35352} 1/30/2009
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A for the Day, Marty.. Just some play time!! Here is the real deal!! This was a tight crop and some effects.
Be well, wild old man!!
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Martin .
{K:24957} 1/29/2009
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Stan,
Nice capture of the Icesickles, but I would really like to see the original shot... ;)
Marty
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 1/29/2009
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do not Know what it is,and this reflects its abstractness nature,a very good one,regards,
Saad.
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arian berisha
{K:13697} 1/29/2009
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WOOWWWWWWWWWW Stan this is a very creative and powerful image,,,well don my friend,,,true modern art,,,7+++++++
my best regards to you,,,
Arian,,,
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Mitra Nademi-Nassari
{K:28234} 1/29/2009
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The moving in of some high pressure has brought by itself some breeze which I like it and the temprature right now is 10 F in here at 11:55 am.
Have a wonderful day Stan.
Mitra
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Stan Hill
{K:35352} 1/29/2009
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Thanks Bubai, playing with some photoshop to start my day. I am off to work, have a good one!
Be well, Stan
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Aungsita Chatterjee
{K:19843} 1/29/2009
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excellent stan.......
nice colour ndd composition.
regards bubai.
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Stan Hill
{K:35352} 1/29/2009
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Thanks Mitra, good imagination!! Is it warming up yet, we are up to 23 this AM. We got some wind to push the cold out.
Be well, Stan
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Mitra Nademi-Nassari
{K:28234} 1/29/2009
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Good morning Stan!
Looks like a scene out of the movie the "The Ten commandments" when Moses was high on the Mount Sinai!
Very effective work Stan!
Regards,
Mitra
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