Steven L. Taylor is a retired Professor of Political Science and former College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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This is a shot I’m absolutely and completely geeking out about. Blowing the background out turned an incredible shot into an absolutely killer piece of art! You’ve blown my mind before with stuff but this one is an absolute masterpiece.
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If you tell me that isn’t post production editing but you just got this on the fly, I’ll bow to the master, Sensei.
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If you don’t blow this up large on the wall, shame on you.
Wow. I mean, absolutely freaking WOW!
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This is a shot I’m absolutely and completely geeking out about. Blowing the background out turned an incredible shot into an absolutely killer piece of art! You’ve blown my mind before with stuff but this one is an absolute masterpiece.
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If you tell me that isn’t post production editing but you just got this on the fly, I’ll bow to the master, Sensei.
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If you don’t blow this up large on the wall, shame on you.
Very cool. Might be interesting to see cropped severely top and bottom, i.e. a narrow horizontal strip with just the birds
this is wonderful
@Flat Earth Luddite: Many thanks for the kind words!
I didn’t do much post-processing–I cropped out the water and bumped the blacks a tad. Here’s the shot SOOC: click.
@MarkedMan: Thanks! And that’s a good idea.
@al Ameda: Thanks!
@Steven L. Taylor:
It reminds me of Japanese art.
@MarkedMan: @CSK: So beautiful. As an admirer of Sumi-e this grabs me and the suggestion of a horizontal scroll is a good one.
@Steven L. Taylor:
Yep, the crop was spot on for a large (say, 24 or 30″ square) , ditto the idea to trim to a banner print.
Again, A+ work!
ETA, pro photo in PDX or white House would do you right on a large scale print.