Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
There's a secret hideaway restaurant that has built up a strong cult following among artists and movie creatives in Los Angeles. It's simple called The Factory Kitchen and is the lovechild of a French Canadian woman and an Italian man, devoted to genuine and generous Italian cuisine.
We celebrated my wife's birthday - she's 27 years old again and still puts up with my ever present camera activity, even at this celebratory and personal time. I discovered that waiters passing a glass panel in front of the pasta preparers marble table, had their reflection also flash past where the glass covered a round pewter tray, acting as a decorative end piece, 90 degrees to the glass panel.
So I posed the lovely receptionist Avril by the make do "mirror" and manual focused at the required 16,000 ISO. As I took the picture, the manager inserted himself into the pose and I made this picture.
It took some effort to build up both density, contrast and detail as well as remove the noise resulting from the low light exposure. at 16,000 ISO. The result pleased me as it showed the enjoyment everyone felt at the picture-taking.
Asher Kelman: Avril Double Take
Sony A7R with Pentax M42 135mm f2.5 (6 element version)
Processed in Photoshop CC with Topaz Clarity Denoise
However, there seemed to me to be further room for improvement. The addition of the more "tactile" strokes of oil paint to build the image seems to me to flesh our the two people far better. For this, once again, I worked hard with the brush details and contrast in Topaz Impression and was able to build a surface that pleased me more and seems to me, by pushing boundaries and exaggerating the manager's expression, to add more life and humor to the scene. This process may help us push boundaries a little further and I find it an interesting process to explore.
Asher Kelman: Avril Double Take
Sony A7R with Pentax M42 135mm f2.5 (6 element version)
Processed in Photoshop CC with Topaz Clarity Denoise and Impression
I show them fairly large so you can appreciate the smooth "dead" rendering of grain-laden facial details of the flat photograph and then the stimulating smoother texture of the lively and more energized brush strokes in the second version.
Your visit and comments appreciated!
Asher
We celebrated my wife's birthday - she's 27 years old again and still puts up with my ever present camera activity, even at this celebratory and personal time. I discovered that waiters passing a glass panel in front of the pasta preparers marble table, had their reflection also flash past where the glass covered a round pewter tray, acting as a decorative end piece, 90 degrees to the glass panel.
So I posed the lovely receptionist Avril by the make do "mirror" and manual focused at the required 16,000 ISO. As I took the picture, the manager inserted himself into the pose and I made this picture.
It took some effort to build up both density, contrast and detail as well as remove the noise resulting from the low light exposure. at 16,000 ISO. The result pleased me as it showed the enjoyment everyone felt at the picture-taking.
Asher Kelman: Avril Double Take
Sony A7R with Pentax M42 135mm f2.5 (6 element version)
Processed in Photoshop CC with Topaz Clarity Denoise
However, there seemed to me to be further room for improvement. The addition of the more "tactile" strokes of oil paint to build the image seems to me to flesh our the two people far better. For this, once again, I worked hard with the brush details and contrast in Topaz Impression and was able to build a surface that pleased me more and seems to me, by pushing boundaries and exaggerating the manager's expression, to add more life and humor to the scene. This process may help us push boundaries a little further and I find it an interesting process to explore.
Asher Kelman: Avril Double Take
Sony A7R with Pentax M42 135mm f2.5 (6 element version)
Processed in Photoshop CC with Topaz Clarity Denoise and Impression
I show them fairly large so you can appreciate the smooth "dead" rendering of grain-laden facial details of the flat photograph and then the stimulating smoother texture of the lively and more energized brush strokes in the second version.
Your visit and comments appreciated!
Asher