THU 02 MAR 2023

[Michael]

Formula/Indy exhibit. Q2

[Don]

Good morning Michael - thanks for starting it today. Very attention getting image.

I will sort of keep the racing theme with an old image of a road race I attended in 1969, near Palermo, Sicily. From a B&W negative. At one point in the race I was laying down right beside the track, cars whizzing by at a high rate of speed, so I could get a low angle shot. Yes, I was young and foolish.

[Dave]

Very nice image, Michael. Well exposed, colorful, good values. And the blur of the tire suggests the car is moving at high speed and that you were positioned right in front of it.

Nice one, Don. You captured the action so well that your photo is quite dynamic.

BTW, I did my share of dumb things in my youthful stupidity; I can think of at least 3 times when I might not survived.

I got the opportunity to try something new in photo processing/enhancing. Here's the original shot - obviously needed a lot of work...

   

After cropping the image and brightening the flowers I realized that the blossoms' positions were too static, so I moved the bottom flower and then filled in the area where it had been (using clone stamp), trying to make the final image to look realistic to some extent...

   

Still not a very good image, but learning how to do something new made it worthwhile for me.