Entries tagged with “composite” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

Katie Rose's theoretical due date was a few days ago even though she was actually born in mid May. Happy Birthday Katie Rose! Katie Rose in a Pink Dress, photo by Harold Davis. The pink dress was a gift for Katie Rose from her great aunt Adelaide. Phyllis wanted a photo of Katie Rose wearing the dress to send to...

On my way across the Tioga Pass road I stopped at Olmstead Point. I made my way out a few hundred yards, and distanced myself from the road, parking lot, and people. Then I laid my head on a rock pillow and watched the clouds hurry past. After a while, I got up refreshed and pulled out my camera and...

When you use Photoshop, nothing is more important than the ability to make selections. As a simple example, when you want to make a composite by moving a person from one background onto another, you need a way to select the person---in other words, to tell Photoshop which pixels you want to move. Besides this kind of large-scale selection, selection...

Here's the cover of the 7th edition of Prentice Hall's Introduction to Clinical Psychology textbook. The image is my composite of a spiral stair and a chambered nautilus shell. You can read the back story of the composite Spirals image here. Introduction to Clinical Psychology cover, image by Harold Davis. Briefly noted: this is a publisher with on-staff photo researchers....

Hydrangea Sheila blooms in the shade of my garden. I snipped this crown of flowers, and brought it inside to play with. The image combines two captures, both exposed for transparency, and a flatbed scan. View this image larger. [Composite image derived from Epson flatbed scanner and two Nikon D300 captures, one at 3 seconds and one at 1 second....