Art of Photoshop

Restroshop - 15 second exposure with "ND filter"

Photoshop is a great tool; the all-in-one when it comes to photo editing; and when it comes to Camera Raw it is amazing how much detail you can get out of a badly taken photo with a cheap filter. I got a bit carried away with all the sliders, trying to get that "aged" look, just for fun I created this photo is actually the weekly task, sort of. *not over done
Just looking at the photo itself there is a relationship between the train lines and the motorway, to me it seems like train lines like to run parallel to motorways (I also looked at an image by Elliot Erwitt which shows this), and it's just really linear in the way they move. The "ghost lines" of the train and cars on the road are parallel and vanish into the distance.

White-Out

This is my "ultrafast" shutter speed photo. Well you can see it's foggy and it hasn't been like this for awhile in Wellington and those two people just happen to be walking by(if they are people :O). If you can recognize where this is that is great.
What I think makes this photo so good is the two figures on the right side of the photos in contrast to the large figure on the left. It is quite a mysterious photo because the "items" in the photo are far away where the it is barely visible and then it is just a total white out after that.

I enjoy slow shutter photography and it is what I mainly do myself. Completely unrelated.

More is More

More Elliot Erwitt. I like his photography a lot so I looked through some other of his work.

 

USA. New Jersey. 1966. Allied Chemical.

This photo is quite interesting, not just because of the obvious scenario that is happening in the picture but because of the extreme symmetry. Everything from the lab coat uniform, the open doors, to the construction of this corridor It is extremely "clinical" and gives me an uncomfortable feeling. 

USA. Wyoming. 1954.

I thought this photo was cool.

Just joking, even though that is what I thought the reason I think this photo is "cool" is how both the train and the car are coming from a far away vanishing point. There is a symmetry here and it directly relates the car to the train. The car appears much cleaner because the train running parallel has a massive smoke cloud trail following it.

It looks like the train and the car are in line with each other which help to the effect.

The road and train track also do run parallel in this part.

Something else interesting about this photo is that it looks like it was shot out the back window of a car. The black bar at the top and bottom look like the back window frame of an old car.

GB. ENGLAND. Birmingham. 1991.

And of course I had to put another dog photo in. I like how Elliot Erwitt in this picture is playing with the fact that this breed of do looks like an old granny(the white hair does it). The granny dog is actually "standing" next to a real life granny. It is interesting how he relates humans and dogs by putting dogs on the level on the humans.

Strange

Elliott Erwitt. 

Well the images speak for themselves.

Just a picture of a small dog at the legs of the owner you think ?

No, not at all. This photo is framed so well that I didn't even notice anything strange about it until I said to myself, "there must be something absurd with this photo", then I saw the legs on the left are in fact dog legs.

Another thing I have noticed is that Elliot Erwitt seems to enjoy playing around with nudity. This is an example I found of one of his many pictures of people with a bit less then an acceptable amount clothing.

What I found interesting about this photo and what Elliot has done is that, it is perfectly normal to have a group of people painting a nude model, but he has switched it around and made a bunch of nude artists painting a clothed model.

He does this a lot where he put nude people into "normal" situations. I'd put them on my blog but I don't think I should have a bunch of naked people on my blog. Look them up yourself.

Now Elliot Erwitt also takes these really absurd photos of colored people back in the an old America. This boy is hold a gun to his head and he is smiling.