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Beijing, China September 2007
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16-SEP-2007

At the Summer Palace
Beijing, China September 2007

Olympus Evolt E-510
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Date/Time16-Sep-2007 16:15:02
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ModelE-510
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Focal Length180 mm
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Phil Douglis09-Mar-2008 23:51
I came to this image without knowledge of your processing -- to me it works as expression because it conveys a sense of the regal past as well as an strenuous present. I remember the pictures that I made of boats on that same lake. They didn't show as much of a contrast between then and now. Now I learn that you were able to make this contrast apparent with your Photoshop skills and knowledge. You were able to enhance this image so that the boat became more rich in coloration and luminosity. You are right about the mind being a better tool for visual processing than the camera itself. While both the camera and computer function as extensions of the mind and eye, you have as much time as you want to work with the computer, but you only had 1/40th of a second to capture the position of the boat and the expression of the body language here with the camera.
Tim May09-Mar-2008 21:49
Again, it is processing that helped me make my image. This image was radically cropped to emphasize the boat and the background. I used the tools of luminosity and saturation to call attention to the boat. I think the world of digital processing allows the photographer to produce a result that more closely expresses what we are striving for in the image while maintaining an integrity to what is real. The mind is a better processor of visuality than camera can ever be. Digital processing allows us to build more of what the mind sees than what the sensor sees.
Phil Douglis09-Mar-2008 20:30
The body language of the boatmen here presents an eloquent push-pull relationship. And what a lovely setting. You make the gray misty weather work for you here -- the boat and its colors contrast starkly to the ornate bridge in the flat drizzly background. Yet that bridge offers a regal context.