http://www.flickr.com/photos/mindfeather/tags/knowledge/ Sat, 16 Jun 2012 07:53:30 -0700 Sat, 16 Jun 2012 07:53:30 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/ http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3707/buddyicons/57379402@N02.jpg?1369098480#57379402@N02 http://www.flickr.com/photos/mindfeather/tags/knowledge/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/mindfeather/7379921164/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/mindfeather/">Photomaginarium</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mindfeather/7379921164/" title="the Nth degree"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5446/7379921164_4a3014bf7c_m.jpg" width="240" height="240" alt="the Nth degree" /></a></p> <p><b>science is that tool which rolls away the darkness, revealing reality underneath. though in quantum theory, the solid matter of reality which we take for granted strangely resembles absolutely nothing at all -- impossibly tiny particles popping into and out of existence.</b><br /> <br /> -=-<br /> <br /> Our Daily Challenge: knowledge<br /> <br /> -=-<br /> <br /> <u>the geek behind the curtain</u>: all shots and layers in this assemblage were taken and developed by myself.<br /> <br /> 2 shots, 5 layers. both shots were hand-held and taken from my car. a shot of a guy laying the blue foundation of his art along the local graffiti paint wall here in town, and a shot from 3 weeks ago of a bit of rainbow. took the photo of the guy and erased the wall, then made his shadow one layer and himself into 2 identical layers. the topmost layer of the guy was desaturated, then i added a layer mask to it. then i blended the desaturated guy into the color version below using the gradient tool -- but only in a very small area, so that only the tip of his roller brush would be in color.<br /> <br /> put in a pure black layer for the general background, and then the photo of rainbow behind that. came back onto the black layer and erased away at it using a 50-percent opacity brush until i got this &quot;built-up&quot; paint layering look.</p> Sat, 16 Jun 2012 07:53:30 -0700 2012-06-12T17:08:18-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Photomaginarium) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/7379921164 the Nth degree <p><b>science is that tool which rolls away the darkness, revealing reality underneath. though in quantum theory, the solid matter of reality which we take for granted strangely resembles absolutely nothing at all -- impossibly tiny particles popping into and out of existence.</b><br /> <br /> -=-<br /> <br /> Our Daily Challenge: knowledge<br /> <br /> -=-<br /> <br /> <u>the geek behind the curtain</u>: all shots and layers in this assemblage were taken and developed by myself.<br /> <br /> 2 shots, 5 layers. both shots were hand-held and taken from my car. a shot of a guy laying the blue foundation of his art along the local graffiti paint wall here in town, and a shot from 3 weeks ago of a bit of rainbow. took the photo of the guy and erased the wall, then made his shadow one layer and himself into 2 identical layers. the topmost layer of the guy was desaturated, then i added a layer mask to it. then i blended the desaturated guy into the color version below using the gradient tool -- but only in a very small area, so that only the tip of his roller brush would be in color.<br /> <br /> put in a pure black layer for the general background, and then the photo of rainbow behind that. came back onto the black layer and erased away at it using a 50-percent opacity brush until i got this &quot;built-up&quot; paint layering look.</p> Photomaginarium collage photomanipulation canon rainbow assemblage gimp science powershot montage knowledge layer reality layers solid matter odc layered hss quantumtheory artdigital holographicuniverse ourdailychallenge odc3 geekbehindthecurtain rollawaythedarkness photomaginarium digitalagerecessionerafolkart