"Old Firefighter", Hill Digital Quilt panel #13

Original

Detail

Old Firefighter

Old Firefighter
8th Street SE
Quintescential Sight

There are several of these wonderfully encrusted old fire hydrants scattered about in the neighborhood.

I'll like to do a series on them.

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Production
Notes

This wonderfully crusty old fire hydrant posed several challenges. First, it's a tightly cropped vertical, and I needed a square format. It couldn't just be cropped without losing important detail. Second, it was taken with an early version of Paper Camera, which did great things, but had VERY small resolution. I needed to make it about four times as big.

I had taken two other pictures at the same time, but with different filters, at different angles, and with different lighting. I spent many interesting hours cobbling together an entity that would work. I have all the steps saved for a Step-byStep demo, but there are 15 layers, so I probably won't get to it right away.

The original Candidate

Picture with more top

Picture with more width

The final source entity.