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October 15, 2010Got a Lot to Learn
October 12, 2010
Yikes! What a bad processing job on the last image. This is the same image processed in Photoshop Elements. The other one was processed in Lightroom 3. Its still not right. With a tap on the keyboard I could change the image to black and white, but, then I need to learn how to balance all that! Another learning curve is about to happen (when enough time has passed for me to forget how long it took for me to figure out my last “lesson” in digital photograpy.
Marta Spurgeon or “As I See Myself”
June 8, 2010
I felt I was missing something when I came out of the San Francisco Fine Art Fair. I found some little drawings I liked. I said hello to a sculpture by Manuel Neri but that was about it. Walking back to the car we decided to check out the MFA Graduate Exhibition. That building was full of energy. This self portrait, taken with my iphone, is of Marta Spurgeon’s hanging plastic boxes. They remind me of Ct , CAT scans of the brain or three-dimensional images of the inside of the head from a series of two-dimensional x-ray images. Marta has layers of transparent plastic sheets hanging in space. Each sheet has part of a face painted on it – altogether they make up a whole three dimensional face.
