Bodie Playing #2

I have picked up a bug and am under the weather. So, I am going to post a series of Bodie playing with his mouse.

Bodie Playing #1

I have picked up a bug and am under the weather. So, I am going to post a series of Bodie playing with his mouse.

Seagulls Multiplied

First off, this one turned out a lot more realistic than I expected. If you look close, you should be able to see artifacts that it is a montage. I had 10 different shots of this lone gull with other flying gulls and solo. The sequence starts from calms, to swell, to wave breaking. I upgraded to CS3. So, I let it auto-align my 10 images combined into a layer stack. That took about 45 minutes. I tried the auto exposure for the layer stack but that was too real looking. Instead, I used undo back to the auto-align step. Then, I masked in all the aligned layers with a mask to keep the bird on the beach intact. Then, I copied the layer stack again to work on the breaking surf. While masking in the breaking surf, I found a new Blending Mode in CS3 called Lighten Color. Most layers used the Lighten Color blending mode.

Geary Road

You know it was just a matter of time before I tried an infrared drive-by.

Bodie

One last shot of Bodie from his first walk. He was found hiding in a garage and pilfering cat food. He had been attacked by another dog (?) and had wounds on his neck and face. He is fully recovered but still very nervous about other dogs and reacts by getting aggressive. Hopefully, he will relax after he gets used to us and stop this behavior.

Styx #1

This lovely sculpture is in the lobby of the Cantor Arts Center. This is Styx by Deborah Butterfield. Styx is a bronze casting of driftwood. Here is a link to better images of Deborah’s work. I only had my trusty 50mm lens on the camera and could not get a wide enough view.

Just for fun, here is another shot of Styx. Down the hallway is a first century statue of Venus.

Styx #2

Cantor Arts Center #1

Today, I visited the Cantor Arts Center with friends. This is Rodin’s Thinker. The Cantor Arts Center has the second largest collection of Rodin’s sculptures out of France. We went to see the Richard Avedon exhibit "In the American West".

The Remix of Orchid

In a nice surprise, I was contacted about using my ’fiddled’ bamboo orchid shot for a children’s book cover. A N Nanda is self-publishing a book that he spent six years writing! This image is his cover. You can see all the details here.  Here is wishing him much success and I look forward to reading my copy.

I am working on launching my artist’s website, dorothygantenbein.com. Please stop by for a sneak peek and sign my guest book.