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~2 Souls, #9 & Salvador Dali~


~2 Souls, #9 & Salvador Dali~
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Copyright: Michael Weber (mwebr) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 450 W: 141 N: 666] (3402)
Genre: People
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-07-02
Categories: Artwork, Event, Friends/Family, Experimental, Mood, HPP [Heavily Post-Processed]
Camera: Canon Powershot S1 IS, SanDisk Ultra-II 1Gb, Tiffen Circular Polarizer
Exposure: f/5.0, 1/640 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2005-07-13 6:28
Viewed: 685
Points: 14
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~2 Souls, #9 & Salvador Dali~

My great great friend Pete of 15+yrs on the right and myself on the left pointing at the 9 on the Dali bench out front of the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida USA. This was a wonderful day for I had the chance to hang out with 2 of my greatest friends Pete and William(who is not shown here). I originaly met Pete while attending College down at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida in 1990. We have been best of friends since that time. We are both Capricorns with our b-days being only 4 days apart and are the same age.
This was the first time I have seen Pete since my visit back home in Indiana in Christmas of 2004. Ahhh so much to write here with little time and characters.
Pete is orginaly from Florida and I am originaly from Indiana. Pete moved up to Indiana from Florida to get a taste of the midwest. Living with William and I. I eventually in the later 90's moved to Florida to go to school(again). So a Florida boy in Indiana and an Indiana boy in Florida. It was quite funny on the location flip-flop. Pete currently is still in Indiana with his wonderful girlfriend Shawna and I am still in Florida with my Fiancee Melissa(who took this picture by the way and I thank her so much). Well, it was a short but great visit and Pete had to head back to Indiana. However, with the lingering thoughts of moving back down to Florida in the near future....YAHOO...I miss hanging around with him and only really seeing him once a year really does not cut it. Soon enough, soon enough. The trio is almost back together for William moved down to Florida last year and Pete hopefully soon on his way.
Thanks for listening.

Michael

pp-Crop and I really need to start paying more attention to what my settings are. For me I really liked this result. The original was fine with good color but just to real...if that makes any sense. So I was really going for a High Key in B/W and ended up with this almost sketch like charcoal drawing look. I was quite pleased. I had the b/w coming from the channels palette by turning off all but the green channel. Then some shadow highlight adjustment for preparation of the HighKey. I copied the layer as I always do so the bottom layer can be added to by way of canvas for the framing. While making some adjustments all the channels were turned back on and the effect seemed interesting and I went away from the b/w and used Hardlight to mix the top copied layer with the bottom layer achieving this effect. Oh yes major Levels adjustment also on this.
To me the look has that painted, pastels, early florida postcard look. This mixed with the dedicated to Dali bench I think turned out interesting. I do go back and forth as far as leaving the image in b/w or this color version. But for today this version was chosen. Let me know what you think.
Thank you.

I had to use a 5 jpeg compression in PSCS more than I would of liked.
msadventure, cstathoulis, WALTERito, mukesh, jmdaoudal has marked this note useful
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To mukesh: Warmth!mwebr 2 07-30 04:56
To Dingo: I see no surrealism!mwebr 5 07-14 15:48
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PP work great from what looks like a great photograph. I like the Dali art - combines your work and photo nicely.
Thanks for your note.

A very creative picture, Michael. Thanks for sharing the technique with us.

Excellent photo and idea with the Dali method.
Perfect composition and colours.
Well done.

That's pretty cool (and sureal)! Nice job post processing it. Looks like a drawing. JP

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  • Dingo Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2743 W: 369 N: 2624] (11948)
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Apart from the bench I see no surrealism, Michael - except for Pete's pose. Well, your PP is excellent. I like the high-key approach a lot. Nice note too. Cherish those friendships! TFS.

Great note and I really marvel the way you take pains to share your experience and knowledge. It shows not only your openness but also care for others - that uconditional willingness to share.
About the picture... without getting into the argument and nuances of Dali, it is a great sunny picture - sunny for it is Florida, for the warmth of friendship that it is conveying and of course the effect that you have managed here. Since in India we have more than fair share of sunny-ness I would say the latter two are the ones we can well emulate and learn from.
With warm wishes - Mukesh

That is a hot funny bench, and i like the way you show...
Simple and nicely coloured.
Well done
Jean Michel

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