Photo Information
| Taken: | 21 May 2007 16:46 Brushy Creek, Texas |
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| Camera: | Olympus C200Z |
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| Exposure: | ISO 200 | |
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| 8.5mm, 0 EV |
| f3.6 |
| 1/50 (indoor, auto flash) |
Backstory
Suna is wearing a red shawl she just finished knitting. The image is a bit flatter than I had hoped. The flash didn’t help much here.
The original picture features Dec’s unkempt (and mostly unused) project table in the background—something I thought detracted from the artistic merit of the shawl. I removed the background by hyper blurring it with
Pixelmator.
Pixelmator is a Photoshop equivalent available for a fraction of the cost on the Mac App store. It does almost everything Photoshop does, but the selection tools are not as robust as you can tell by some of the hard edges on the shawl. I guess you do have to lose some functionality when you use a $39 app instead of a $800 one. That just means I’ll have to be more careful in selecting the edges next time.
–16 May 2012
