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Image Quilt - "The Mouse Couple at Home'

9/27/2012

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"The Mouse Couple
at Home"
Digital Quilt


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This is a straight picture of the Mouse Couple, two funny little rusty metal sculptures, One of them has a bow-tie, which you can see in  the first panel of the quilt. I liked the way they seemed to be relating to each other with several different moods. The picture file for the matrix is large, so it might take a while to load. However, it's cut way down for this blog from the original humongous file.
PowerCam in Action

This is a matrix of photos taken with the PowerCam app, which shows the filter or special effect in action as you take the picture. This is quite helpful in composing the shot, which I generally do by squinting at the screen until all I can see is the value pattern. Since many filters affect the color values, they can influence the balance  and compositional choices. Each filter seemed to call for a slightly different approach to framing the shot.

The app is easy to understand and navigate, and has a nice selection of effects. Most are color based, but a few are distortion of various kinds. You can zoom as you compose, turn the flash on or off, and touch focus, but there were no controls for the effects. The filters also work while in video mode, which is very exciting.

This is a great start, well designed, and I look forward to the upgrades. On my wish list would be higher resolution, and some kind of controls for the effects.

The Mouse Couple at Home uses many, but not all of the filters, so it's a sort of sampler. Of course, I also wanted to create real art, so although I tried out all the filters, I chose images that worked well together compositionally and psychologically. I did use two of the more colorful effects twice, for balance, and flow, and because I'm a color freak. The finished quilt is very large, and will make a dandy poster. At least I think it's finished ... I may shuffle a few of them around more a bit more,  for fine tuning. It was composited on my desktop Photoshop because of the much larger real estate.
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Catch of the Day

9/26/2012

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I usually take multiple photos of whatever catches my eye, as I am not always so steady, and often the smallest change of angle or tilt can dramatically alter the composition. When I am lucky enough to have a photo shoot that goes for several days, I also tend to revisit some especially fruitful situations. The light changes or I think of a different approach or I see something new. This can produce hundreds of pictures. In the case of the trip to the river, there were over 500 photos to contend with.

To organize them all and start to sort out the winners, I begin by putting them all in a single file. Then I divide them into as many sub-files as necessary to make sense of them, the files named as descriptively as possible . The river series produced twelve categories, including such groups as "the Thin Red LIne", "Stems and Bowls", and "Stack o' Crystal Balls"

There are always a few that defy categorization, or that are one-of-a-kind. Here are a few from the "Cool Things" category.
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Catch of the Day

9/22/2012

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Fall Equinox 2012
East Capitol Sunrise

If it looks like it will be a clear morning, I like to get up before dawn on the Equinox, and walk to the far end of Lincoln Park where there is a good view down East Capitol Street. Just like at Stonehenge, the sun rises directly down the middle.  This Atumnal Equinox, however, I didn't quite make it that far, but I still got my shot by standing in the middle of East Capitol looking towards the park, with the US Capitol behind me. The sun obligingly made a nice showy halo coming through the trees. Then I had to dash, because it was already rush hour, and traffic waits for no one.
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New Round Thing

9/19/2012

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River Marble

This one started as a straight photograph of the same river sunrise as the last post, taken with the iPhone.

Then there was a lot of photoshop.

Also a lot of fun.
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Catch of the Day

9/18/2012

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River Glass!

A very pleasant trip to the river on a beautiful weekend, a magnificent sunrise, and my trusty iPhone, and now I've got a whole new series to contend with. Here's the first of them to get any attention.

Camera: iPhone 4S
Apps: Anticrop, Touchup
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Catch of the Day

9/13/2012

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Beach Glass Stemware 2

I've been working with the huge Beach Glass series, trying to narrow it down a bit, and bring a few to completion. This image is less abstract than most. It required much fussing, but I'm quite happy with the results, and the prints are looking good.

Camera iPhone 4S
Apps: Retouch, Anti-crop, Photogene
Photoshop
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Interview About Blogging

9/8/2012

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I've been asked by George Miller, who is the blog-meister for The Art League in Alexandria, to answer a few questions about my experiences concerning developing and keeping an artist's blog.  The Art League is a very large and active organization, with a big gallery, arts out-reach program, art supply store, and a fine art school. The school has thousands of students, and hundreds of teachers.


Interview for The Art League Blog  

Q: How did you decide on the domain name?

 Of all the many, many decisions involved in constructing the website, the domain name was the most difficult and frustrating. I wanted something pithy, memorable, distinctive and informative, but not too long. Dozens and dozens of  clever ideas were considered and rejected before I resigned myself to the simple but descriptive Nancy Freeman Studio. I actually own three domain names now,  because we decided on one, then switched to another, then another. 

Q: How do you like Weebly, and what made you pick it?

 I've been a computer artist for over a quarter century, and it became a source of professional embarrassment that I didn’t have a website. But now the software is so user-friendly there’s just no excuse. My computer-whiz daughter found the Weebly system, which has a graphic drag-and-drop interface. It’s free for most (simpler) 

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New Card!

9/7/2012

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A new business card based on a picture from the "Copper Dreams" series.

Much fussing with Photoshop.

Click here for more Copper Dreams
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New Paintography

9/3/2012

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"Sliced Glass"

This is a new member of the Neon Swirl family, descended from the one in the previous post. I wanted a longer composition, with more directional movement. A swoosh.  It's been made into a 10 X 16 archival print. It's always very satisfying to see one of these digital images "cross over" into the real world. I guess that's the painter in me, I want to see it on the wall.
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    Nancy Freeman has a decades-long fascination with digital art which she supports by painting portraits and teaching various art subjects. Right now she devotes most of her creative time to digital art because it's so satisfying.

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