When someone is speaking at our astronomy club, and they step up to the projection screen to point out something, you see really strange effects from the projector illuminating them with the projected image. Somes I can click just at the right time and get an interesting portrait of them speaking. But usually it is just a strange looking thing. As was the case tonight. So I keep clicking hoping to get something interesting. I thought this was not worth anything, until I looked at the face in this image and the thought occurred to me that maybe it was like a Picasso painting. Not really but you get the idea. We do see everything fractured, face arms hands screen image. So I thought this would be interesting to show. You would have no idea what was going on if I didn't explain the scene.
So I do feel that I should show a more traditional portrait of him speaking. His name is Frank Melillo and I have known him for years. He is really the only member of the club doing real science in terms of observing and photographing the planets. He spoke tonight about how to photograph the planets in the daytime, believe it or not. But right after sunrise or just before sunset can be a good time for some of the planets. And Frank is the master of that.
OK GET THIS... Someone commented on the first photograph and wondered how the photograph would look with the bright white lights eliminated fron the photo. I couldn't crop the lights out, so I retouched them out. I LIKE THIS PHOTO BETTER! So thanks to my anonymous commenter!
4 comments:
An interesting photo for sure and I get the reference to Picasso from the face. And looking to the right, the hand made me think of Michelangelo's Creation of Adam. Not meant to be critical, but I find the ceiling lights on the left to be bit distracting. I would be curious to see this photo Cropped inwards to eliminate the lights or Photo Shop the lights out.
Definitely a bizarre photo! Glad you included the bottom photo :-) Betsey
Thank you to my anonymous commenter. So I just retouched the lights out of the background. I didn't like trying to crop them out and I liked that having the background in the photograph made it a little more three-dimensional. I LOVE THE RETOUCHED VERSION! A distraction was removed. Thanks for the suggestion. Of course, some will say that it is not correct to do this kind of retouching. In all my years of work, this kind of retouching was forbidden. But since this is my blog, I reserve the right to do retouching since this is not really "Journalism."
I am the anonymous commenter. I was so drawn by the top photo that I failed to sign in properly. I am very happy you agreed with my suggestion for removing the lights - the photo is now much more striking and blurs the line between a photo and a painting. Cool shot!
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