Posted at Mar 26/2006 08:00PM:
[chris witmore]: I agree Amara, Great Job!
Posted at Mar 26/2006 07:35PM:
Sebastian De Vivo: Amara, you took on a set of HUGE issues, which have plagued the greatest theorists of photography and digital photography, and using your own experience with Photoshop were able to explore some very fascinating connections, between the image and reality, between art, photography, and digital photography, etc. I very much enjoyed reading about these issues. Your use of images was, of course, wonderful, your questions direct, your navigation clear, and your research well-presented. You engaged with some pretty heady issues intelligently. Great job!
Amara Humphry
Photoshop and I: Our history together & the digital train we jumped on
The Addition Of People...and Things: How/Why Objects and People can be added into pictures
Shrinking, Growing, and Perfecting: Fixing imperfections in photographs..and people
[Artifical Beauty]
Get Artsy: Without a paintbrush and a canvas, can Digital Art be...Art?
Physics 80N: Adjusting levels, exposure, cropping etc. Making the darkroom a computer room.
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Posted at Feb 21/2006 07:48PM:
Stefan Vraspir: I love the way you changed gears with your project. This should be really interesting to look at all the different uses YOU have for photoshop and what purposes it serves in your life. Looking forward to it.
ps: are you the one photoshopped into the picture of your family? i must know!
Posted at Feb 22/2006 01:06PM:
[klfsong]: So even thought I know that most pictures in magazines are photoshoped, I still want to look like the models. I am chasing an unobtainable ideal.
Posted at Feb 26/2006 05:07PM:
Daniel Steinbock: This connects to the debates about photography when the technology first emerged. Is a photo real or imaginary? If reality is defined as that which is perceived by normal human senses, then it is imaginary. Yet photographic technology has become more and more advanced and our ability to accurately recreate realistic imagery is uncanny. Simultaneously, our ability to alter those realistic images has also advanced.
Posted at Feb 27/2006 12:05PM:
Stefan Vraspir: Another interesting thing you could use to talk about your different uses for photoshop would be to include some original pictures, and then show the fnial project after photoshopping the original, discussing what it was you did to the image. This could provide an interesting way to look at what exactly photoshop does in certain circumstances...
Posted at Mar 14/2006 01:22AM:
Pat Danahy: I used photoshop just today for a presentation I had to make. Instead of using boring bullet points like a majority of powerpoint presentations are I used photoshoped pictures to display my points and to add a much needed sense of humor to the presentation. I don't know if you are trying to go in this direction but photoshop has definatly made it easier to be creative and get better grades or in the business world it could get better deals and so on and so forth
Posted at Mar 14/2006 02:46AM:
Stefan Vraspir: Hey, you asked me about some pictures that i did postwork on in photoshop...i went through and found some of the better ones, so if you want to take a look at them come on down the hall. also, i have some artsy photos that i touched up in photoshop if you want to take a look at those too. yay for photoshop!
Posted at Mar 15/2006 01:33PM:
Kome: i have to say that this project is very very interesting. People always talk about how models are airbrushed etc, but i never knew the extent to which this was possible until i looked at the photos that you have up there. It's trully remarkable and makes one think about society in general and the images and misconceptions that we are faced with everyday.
In addtion, i think the question you asked about whether digital art is art...is a very good one. I took an art history class a couple of months ago and it's really interesting what people will decide or not deicde to label art just becuase of the methods of production and in some cases the actual product itself. It's definately worth exploring and i look forward to reading more about what you come up with.
Posted at Mar 15/2006 04:20PM:
[chris witmore]: Hi Amara. We discussed two books: Mitchell, W.J., 1992:
The reconfigured eye: Visual truth in the post-photographic era, Cambridge and Manovich, L., 2001:
The language of new media, Cambridge, MA. .
