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Nailed

2007.01.11






Indulging in experimentation with photoshop. The images are of a mural made of nails by David Partridge. The mural is in the entrance at city hall.

I'm a bit self-conscious about this, but as a friend told me his teacher told him: 'good. get it all out of your system. The gasoline spilled on the wet road, the cat pictures, whatever it is. Take them, put them up, and then you can move on.'

18 Comments
moonunit80 Very cool. What part did you do with photoshop...the color? They have a nice depth of field, and I like their uniform panoramic-ness.
moonunit80 · 2007-01-11: 20:46
JuliaGotz I played with saturation and desaturation, but I also used one of those photoshop filters that selects edges.

The mural is very large. I took all my pictures on an angle to do exactly that - play with and practice depth of field.
JuliaGotz · 2007-01-11: 20:50
deleted062007 You nail this series right on the head JG!! This is more than superb - this brings out all of your artistic talent (yes I know you have it from the past) and your creativity!! Magnificent series that requires to you to take a bow!! I am clapping!! Bravo!! I am standing, but I don't know why!!
deleted062007 · 2007-01-11: 23:06
monkeyface #3 is my fave. It looks like those photos from outer space. You seem to be getting well aquainted with your new camera. I enjoy looking at your photos. Your composition is A+. The way you cropped them is really lovely. It compliments your set. Photoshop scares me, it's so big, so powerful that I could get lost in it for days.
monkeyface · 2007-01-11: 23:22
JuliaGotz "Bravo!! I am standing, but I don't know why!!" - that made me laugh, art. Maybe you should have a seat.

Monkeyface, if you get lost for days in photoshop, the little doggie will go in there and find you! Or I will. There you will be, saturated, contrasty, pixelated and flipped horizontally, resized, cropped perhaps, but happy.
JuliaGotz · 2007-01-11: 23:37
tortoise I think it works as a single work, rather than a series of individual pieces. Your uniform cropping enforces this. I know it's not possible here, but I'd like to see the same series arranged vertically. I just turned my laptop 90 degrees to effect this, and it's interesting. If I was going to hang them on my wall, that's how I'd arrange them. If I had to choose a single favorite element of the whole, it would the the stark #2. Removing all color puts the focus squarely on pattern, rhythm, depth of field.
tortoise · 2007-01-11: 23:49
Overexposed JG, I must admit I expect to see portaits when I visit your site but not to hammer the point home but you nailed this real good. Look forward to your petrol on the wet road series! It should be a GAS!
Overexposed · 2007-01-12: 01:11
jorgen Nice series of great postprocessing!
jorgen · 2007-01-12: 01:54
ottosson Cool abstractions! Great work! Great idea!
ottosson · 2007-01-12: 02:16
PARVAZ creative! I like number two specially! nice photoshop's proccesing!
PARVAZ · 2007-01-12: 05:09
Membrillo Indeed.. these are fascinating.. pretty charming!
Membrillo · 2007-01-12: 06:37
JuliaGotz Your comments give me confidence to keep taking chances.
JuliaGotz · 2007-01-12: 10:06
pattyb Beautiful!!! You go girl...I love it! I found that if I tip my head sideways also I appreciated the view a little more. This is so very creative I need to learn from you and step out of the box... Fantastic job!

David Partridge, tortoise, is he realated to the Partridge Family? Come On Get Happy!
pattyb · 2007-01-12: 11:29
sealegs I like thisssssssss.
sealegs · 2007-01-12: 11:50
sistermagister A very good work!
sistermagister · 2007-01-12: 12:16
Yanko I loved it! Is amazingly well executed! Congrats! Keep it up!
Yanko · 2007-01-12: 14:38
FaTmAn Great photos I love the lines and colours
FaTmAn · 2007-01-13: 01:05
eidea very beautiful ones. nailed me.
eidea · 2007-01-17: 08:18
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