Dusty Moments -- America's Finest Blog

Dusty Moments, America's Finest Blog, is dedicated to photography and the American way of life. With each old snap shot or Kodachrome slide, a bit of the psyche of the person behind the camera is revealed, while simultaneously creating mysteries as to the true nature of the subject's story. The words within this blog are my own. Many of the photographs are mine too, but included also are the dusty moments from my parents and grandparents, as well as, junk store finds.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Fun With Photoshop

I'm a believer, fan and practitioner of straight photography. The straight photographer, relies on subject and composition to create a memorable photo, not darkroom magic. That said, it is kind of fun to go into a darkroom and manipulate a photograph to hell and back. Sometimes it looks great, sometimes it looks really manipulated. Spending hours in the darkroom is what I miss the most about 35mm photography that and my Cannon T50. Photoshop, is the darkroom of the digital age and like the darkroom sometimes it fun to mess around with a photo to see what you get. I'm a novice at the wonders of photoshop, so mostly I ruin photos, not enhance them. Keeping all this in mind, today's entry is a recent photo I took at Gas Works Park, in Seattle and then given the old one two Photoshop hatchet job, a la The Dan.

Dan

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: I like this alot. So does the ghost of Ansel Adams. It looks like Quin is having a close encounter of the third kind.; October 16, 2008 at 2:08 PM