This original composition was created completely in Photoshop CS3 as a creative exercise to familiarize myself with some of the new features. In using some previous compositions as elements in the design, my intent was to showcase these previous works in a unique way. Additionally, this was also submitted as a creative composition for one of my classes this term. Overall time spent on this project was around 10 – 12 hours, but this factors in everything from conceptualizing to completion of the finalized work.

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I created a couple of makeshift HDR images in Photoshop to test out some concepts I had come across for simply using a single JPEG image as the source for the compositions.

Overall, I think the results I have come up with here are decent though the source images were very limiting as to their color levels and overall quality. Not true HDR images, but something with a bit more color range as well as stronger contrast, as was the goal here and done just for fun!

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This image was taken in Chicago, looking out onto Lake Michigan from a lake front park. Post processing in Photoshop included some layer masks, filters, and color balance adjustments.

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I took this image of the early morning sky the other day and the following composition is the result. Not too much post processing here, as the colors and levels have only been optimized slightly to create some additional contrast and balance. The sky can most assuredly make for an interesting artistic canvas and I feel this is reflected here. The comp is very subtle and light, but offers just enough visual presence.

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I took this image on the way home from work a couple days ago and was inspired to create, so the following is a result of said inspiration. It is a bit abstract, but it was an interesting end result I think. Also, the original image can be viewed on my Flickr photostream if you would like to compare and contrast the two.

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