dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

If I tell you how I can provide teleportation like Steth Brundel in The Fly and help you travel thru time like H. G. Wells's Time Machine. If I tell you, can you keep the secret? I would ask you "QUIET PLEASE" just like a librarian ssshhh you with their finger on their lips.

If you are tired of the every day grind, yen for a life of adventure, and want to get away from the boring world camera in your hand, I offer you escape in the imaginary image world, but QUIET PLEASE ... You will be with a ssshhh sound transported quickly to fantastic worlds. Meet and photograph important people, photograph tragic events safely, and travel thru time and space, even the Moon or Mars... but importantly I ask you, Quiet Please, for in the Jungle is a rabid hungry panther lurking and he must not hear you, so Quiet Please.

QUIET PLEASE

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L-Fox

Exercising one of the extraneous fiddle knobs in our modern-in-excess software??

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

Excellent work!

Stan

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

l-fox asked: "Exercising one of the extraneous fiddle knobs in our modern-in-excess software??"
And thank you Stan.

No, actually the original image was taken with my Panasonic TZ100 Super-Zoom with a 1" sensor... on Auto.. 10 feet from my TV. I saw a senator starting to perhaps pick his nose. His image was displayed on an MSNBC news cast. The important message is that our TV can provide us with Time/Place images by magic.

With a search on You Tube we can be provided images of any time and/or place, Kitchen, War, Moon, or Mars. We can find an image of presidents or homeless. With the movie "One Million BC" we can photograph dinosaurs and cavemen. Our cameras will capture the image and then we go from there with our software.

The mans image was cropped from the TV image and cleaned and sharpened. That face image was close cropped to the message parts that tell us that it was a person, the essentials eyes, nose, mouth and the supporting flesh. In this case the finger required refining to be fore clearly a finger in action.

The image then appeared not as a senator picking his nose, rather became someone ssshhh and saying Quiet Please. When young we experienced ssshhh many times, a universal experience title that the viewer can relate to.

Important to picked a short "Universal_Experience-Title" that viewers memories can relate to.

CAMERA IMAGE OF MAN ON TV --- THE BEGINNING

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CLOSE CROP USED FOR "QUIET PLEASE"

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Beyond the close crop and deNoise/Sharpening, the photo was radically changed as if van Gogh was painting it on one of his bad days. The software utilized was Dynamic Autopainter 6 and Reactor by Mediachance. This "software uses the image as a guide and applies realistic brushstrokes inspired by the masterpieces of renowned classical painters such as van Gogh..." It is not an AI program, and does not modify pixels a new image if generated based on the one submitted, brushstrokes inspired by the master painters.
https://www.mediachance.com/dap/

Fstop12 Loc: Kentucky

I like it! I was in Amsterdam this past summer and visited the Gaudi and Dali immersive exhibit. The exhibit hall was huge and the artwork was massively display on the walls. I think your image would look great in an enviroment like that.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Thank you Fstop I admire your work and value your opinion.
Thank you, Fstop, for pointing to an entrance for me to visually visit the indeed impressive Gaudi and Dali exhibit while sitting at home.

Fstop was "In Amsterdam this past summer and visited the Gaudi and Dali immersive exhibit. The exhibit hall was huge and the artwork was massively display on the walls." Fstop, How wonderful for you to have actually been there.
https://www.helloamsterdam.nl/culture/exhibitions/the-art-gaudi-and-dali-comes-to-life-at-fabrique-des-lumieres/

Based on that comment, I just visited the images... Mr Google took me there when I asked him about "Gaudí and Dalí images displayed at Fabrique des Lumières." When clicking on the image of choice it is displayed full screen. With out Mr Google and your telling we where I would never have been able the wonders there.
I asked google "Gaudí and Dalí images displayed at Fabrique des Lumières " and he replied generously with the art on display.

The important that our TV or Computer Monitor can provide us with Time/Place images by magic. We can capture the images. I use a free program called "Lightshot" to freeze the screen and capture the image.
https://app.prntscr.com/en/index.html

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Your finished work is mesmerizing, Don.

Fstop12 Loc: Kentucky

Thank you for that screenshot link, I will check it out. The exhibit in Amsterdam was mind blowing to say the least. I took a lot of images and I have to say that my IPhone 13 Pro Max did remarkably well in a challenging low light environment.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

I admit to taking the photo from TV and my usual compulsion to tight-crop, van Gagh and DAP did the hard work.

I learned a lesson. I can not use gigapixel and enlarge the image and then do touch-up work because my graphics card, NVIDIA 1050TI with 4 gig, becomes mud slow with a 40 gig image.

Interesting, viewed at a distance, perhaps 15', the image looks more human.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Your iPhone 13Pro, is an excellent camera... a fantastic computer and multi lens combo. Science fiction made real.

iPhone ability to take excellent images is by generational, officially called Generation Z, use and acceptance is photo-cellphones is spelling the doom of DSLR 40# bags of cameras and lenses. Clothing will be more and more geared to having cellphone pockets. I comment about the old cartoon series, "Born 30 years too soon" at almost 88, I was born 60 y too soon.

"Generation Z has grown up never knowing a time without social media. Many have had their entire lives documented in photos and videos on Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. Experts say that because of this, Gen Z'ers feel pressure to dress in new clothes and in unique ways to set themselves apart from the crowd.

We are a picture generation. Over half of Gen Z takes between 10-30 pictures every single day [1]. If you do the math, we’re looking at roughly 11,000 pictures a year. And of what? Having a photo of your morning coffee or a cool pair of sneakers a stranger is wearing can’t be that useful to your life, right? Yet our generation takes the picture anyway. It gets posted, then re-posted, sent to friends, and the cycle begins again. As our camera roll grows and our phone storage fills, we’re left to wonder: What draws us to document every little moment of our lives?"
https://www.liberty.edu/campusrec/student-activities/blog/living-in-a-picture-generation/

Oddly, the Gen-Z are liking 20 year old good "point and shoot" cameras!! Many articles say so!!!

veralisa296 Loc: New Jersey

I am so glad you included such an intense written description of your process, even though I didn't really understand much of it, but you made your finished image become more real,more "readable" to me. The finished piece became less severe after seeing the actual photograph of the subject. Your work is amazing!!! Thank you!

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Interesting . . . .

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

veralisa296 said, "The finished piece became less severe after seeing the actual photograph of the subject."

You with effort put together the pieces and made "Quiet Please" human, For you an effort, because you are comfortable with looking for logical geometric design. I look at your abstracts and just see, with out relating them to reality and I just appreciate them as a geometric/color sensation. I see them as color and geometry but in contrast I do not see and appreciate or connect with the works of Jackson Pollock. [image below]

"Your work is amazing!!!" Thank you, veralisa, for your efforts at training your eye/mind to accept the abstract face. Again, my work was to take a photo from TV, crop it to the minimum message and then the real work was done by DAP program. Your orderly geometric abstract work in contrast is much harder to accomplish than cleaning your paint brush on the floor protecting canvas as I accuse Pollock.

JACKSON POLLOCK ABSTRACT

veralisa296 Loc: New Jersey