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What is real and what is noise?


What is real and what is noise?
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Copyright: Lois Johnson (lebjohnson) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 136 W: 49 N: 180] (1287)
Genre: People
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-11-25
Categories: Humorous
Camera: Pentax *ist DS, Tamron 28-300mm XR Di f3.5-6.3
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Travelogue: Vacation in the Twin Cities
Date Submitted: 2005-12-23 9:15
Viewed: 1152
Points: 3
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
And the name of the photo is supposed to be reflections-through-the-looking-glass, no loo here! Ah the joys of field space!

This is another from the St Paul Science Museum, taken hand held in a dim room full of mirrors intended to teach refraction and reflection.

ISO 3200 Image cropped, contrast and saturation increased, Photoshop film grain effect added and other general messing around, which I don't remember... The mind is going...
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To Peeotr: Thank you!lebjohnson 1 01-11 22:55
To kitflorendo: Rethinking, smell the burning?lebjohnson 9 01-06 20:57
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My goodness. I suggest that you stretch actuality and now look what happens.
Frame is smooth.
I don't know what to make of this one. Very 'impressionist' but here's what I actually do think:
A confusion, with no actual focal point. No core subject that I can settle on. The eye is jumping around all over the place like a frog in a bucket. Thank goodness for the frame, or the eye would have jumped overboard.
I like the audacity of it; the colours and the texture; the busyness and the liveliness ... but I get this feeling that I want to turn the page and see something more ... relaxing.
Now, there will probably those avant-garde viewers who will fall in love with this at first sight. I'll let them point out to me the virtue/s and check with you later.
The vote from the Manila jury is ...

I like the grain, warm colors, repeating shape of woman... Strange orange 'cloud' adds mystery. As also the fact that we don't see woman's face.

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