Now, what's all that jibbah-jabbah about artistically edited? Isn't that pretty high falutin'? I just want to show you something. I have a beautiful image of a dog. Dog is gorgeous. Background has potential.But the colors are just slightly off. They aren't coherent. There is a blue pipe going up the dog's head. There is a blue pillow but the blue on that doesn't match the pipe. The greens on the door in the back and one of the pillows almost match... but are just off enough to cause this Virgo's brain to revolt.So into Photoshop it goes.We completely removed the pipe and extended the green door. Now we have no blue elements except that pillow. So let's change the blue pillow to green. By ...
Friday, September 11, 2015
I met Luna (and her brother Beemo) at my latest Maxwell Dog ice cream social. She was four months old then and I was absolutely mesmerized by her Border Collie blue eyes. Her dad, Chris Nguyen, is a dog trainer and Beemo, though not Luna, had tricks you would not believe.I had an idea of a shoot I wanted to do. I had been preparing for this photo shoot for quite a while. It involved an eye chart, a pair of trial glasses, and a dog. When I finally got everything in place, I contacted Chris to see if he and Luna would do the shoot -- those eyes, you know -- and he was amenable.Trouble is, though trial glasses are quite accommodating to humans, they aren't so accommodating to canines. And when ...