JOHN OBERART

Cosmic Color

began as a photograph of a large art piece found hanging in the National Museum of Art, Ottawa (see photo). The progressive steps involved were: 1.) Noise Filter, Add Noise, Gaussian Noise, 2.) Filter, Distort, Twirl at 500 angle to get center complete, 3.) Add yellow circle in center using Elliptical Marquee and Fill, 4.) Select outer area and vignette with Image, Brighten minus 50, 5.) Add 4 circles using Elliptical Marquee tool with shift key depressed and sized via Edit, Transform, Scale, 6.) Filled each circle using the Gradient tool and custom color setting on gradient scale using sliders, 7.) Moved the circles around to get bright side facing center using the Transform Tool, Rotate.

I didn't learn anything about doing digital imaging on a photograph from
this picture. It's an exercise in the graphic techniques found in Photoshop:
the use of someone else's art and then some graphic designs. I don't care
for the final result anyway. Sorry.

Out of this world!

Composition, colors, proportitions, everything is very fine in this image and it gives a feeling of movement, it is not static. It proofs what a powerful and wonderful tool we have in our hands ( to be used for whatever we want to create.)

So we come to the question of creating. I asked myself about the message in this image. What does it want to tell us? What is the intention? To compete with readymade fractial software?

It is this question we should ask ourselves in the very beginning when we make use of Photoshop or similar softs.

Biography

John is a retired Biomedical Engineer who spent 30 years designing and testing surgical implants. He spent another 10 years as a Consultant on issues regarding

Pacemakers and Breast Implants. He has published his work widely and holds several dozen patents.

Photography has been his avocation since 1971. He holds the Master of Photography Award from the NIH Camera Club and has taught courses in photography at the college level for several years. He leads highly acclaimed trips that concentrate on the best to be offered in the way of photography in places such as Alaska, Canada, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Mexico, Norway, Thailand and the western part of the United States.

John uses Canon EOS 35 mm equipment and a wide variety of lenses. The photographic results of his trips are presented as two-projector musical shows. A book of pictures and words are published on each trip using photographic contributions from the participants.

Digital imaging is relatively new to John. He is currently using a PC with lots of memory, Adobe Photoshop 5, a HP scanner, and an Epson printer

John Boretos