The Sam and Frederica Variations - 06/07.
Recently, I used a pic of Frederica and Sam to test out some techniques for dealing w/ inexpensive digital cameras and their unfortunate tendencies.  After that, I went slightly apeshit.
 

Here's the original.  Shadows galore and a low-contrast background made this a great subject.

 

Here's the edited pic:

Quite a difference without the shadows, isn't it?  Admittedly, I went overboard on the retouching, but what the hell.  Magazines do it every day.

 

Visiting the Adirondacks in the fall, since they're wearing jackets anyway:

Of course it doesn't really look like they're there, but it does have that cheesy Portrait Studio look to it.  Available in wallet size.

 

Visiting a textile museum.  I rather like this one.

 

Visiting the I-have-no-idea-why-this-is-here museum:

Kind of a space-age bachelor-pad sort of thing.  Drop some Esquivel on the Hi-fi, mix up some Cosmopolitans and groove the supersexy swingin' style.  Or some shit.

 

Visiting the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh.  Mmm, Mmm, good.

 

Visiting the Pollock collection at MoMA [NYC.]

 

Visiting a Nazi skinhead rally in Manchester, UK.  Oy.

 

Visiting the Guggenheim in Bilbao.  Something went terribly wrong here.

 
That's about it.  As I look through it, I think only of the time I could've spent helping the elderly, teaching children and rescuing puppies.  Nah, fuck 'em.

Mark

 

 

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