-- 66 images -- Computer enhanced images from candid digital photographs of shadows self portraits -- an online exhibit of computer graphics These digital photographs were taken with a Sony FD73 and Sony CD100 and a Casio QV-770 digital camera
Plus a prose poem with narration.
We live with shadows all our lives, yet we rarely see them. They are odd, distorted, disfigured shapes that fold around the solid world - a world to themselves.
We know that we change
the memories of our dreams
to be more logical,
more like waking life.
Shadows are the same.
We want to make them clearer,
the outlines more like what we know.
But it is not like in the movies.
Sometime when you have a moment look at your shadows directly as you go from a lighted area to darkness. Look at them as they move, as they remain still, as they mold themselves to the tables and rugs and doors you live with. Look at them for what they are.
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Single Figures
Two Figures
Three or More Figures
The Same Image Processed in Different Ways ----- Image One -----
----- Image Two -----
How These Images Were Made
All of these figures were derived from digital photographs of real shadows of people standing on concrete pavement at an amusement center. The shadows were created by two very bright area lights which produced a double and overlapping effect. By processing the entire image in Paint Shop Pro (V.6), I was able to bring out colors, outlines and enhanced detail. Naturally I had to crop a number of these. But I did not use a paint brush, eraser, or add any lines or areas. In other words I worked on the whole image, not parts.
Look at the two images below.
The one on the left is the original photograph;
the one on the right the computer enhanced image.
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We want to make them clearer,
