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Titus Powell
{K:1731} 9/13/2003
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WOW! This is incredible... powerful, expressive, and a bunch of other superlatives. Masterfully done!
Tom
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Jim McNitt
{K:11246} 8/22/2003
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Hi Kita:
I'm not exactly clear on your question, but I'll try to explain a bit of the history of this image. Basically, it'sj ust two separate layers that have been composited, or blended (in normal mode, as I recall) in PS using a layer mask.
The first image is a statue located in the Pere La Chaise cemetary in Paris which is perhaps best known to Americans as the site of Jim Morrison's grave. It's also the resting place a regular for a regular who's who of European cultural giants such as Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde, Alexander Dumas and many, many others. I chose this particular statue because of the emotional power it had over me when I happened across it.
The background was created in PS by using various third-party, filters including Flaming Pear Glitterado, to create a universe with stars, nubulae, and gas clouds. I then all but obscured the universe layer with lightening -- I tried a couple of different filters for this and, I think, it was Eye Candy which worked best, but I could be wrong on that. In any event, I was attempting to come up with something that visually represented the sensation of having your universe litterally shattered to pieces by an untimely death.
Finally, I composited the two images taking care NOT to be overly careful with the layer masking. I thought a few rough spots would convey more in the way of genuine emotion than something that was meticulously selected and masked.
There really was no desire to be abstract. I intended both the "grief" statue and the backgound to be fully representational and to communicate on a visceral, emotional level rather than a more abstract symbolic level.
Hope that answers your question. If not, let me know and I'll try again.
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kita mcintosh
{K:18594} 8/21/2003
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love this for a whole lot of reasons which would not be appropriate to divulge here and now.(in my fav) However, I was interested in your comment and thanx. Could you explain a bit more what u mean? Do you mean superimposing abstracts with non abstracts etc? generally superimposing images? thanx for your time.
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Onur Aydin
{K:9815} 7/31/2003
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Spectacular work once again !
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Yutaka Itinose
{K:22586} 7/28/2003
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Very impressive and the object is clear! Good mourning.
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Craig Garland
{K:27077} 7/27/2003
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Jim; you've got be the photoart master-- wish I had 5% of your talent and skills! This is a dramatic, dynamic creation, and does speak to grief, but I also see pain, anguish, regret, remorse-- lots of negative "stuff". All the electricity popping around the woman is surreal but looks painful, and of course the pose, color and overall tone of the photo adds to the Grief effect. Incredible and disturbing work. Craig
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Rhonda Prince
{K:17687} 7/26/2003
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Yes, that is exactly what grief feels like. Great photoart!
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Richard Blount
{K:8015} 7/26/2003
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This is incredible Jim, it really does portray grief and I can feel it too from looking at this image, a very fine tribute to a dear friend - Richard.
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In Transit
{K:29432} 7/25/2003
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Mr. McNitt... speachless...!!!
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K Sveidq
{K:764} 7/25/2003
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The image lives up to the title.
You have captured the emotion, the desperate grief you feel when your sorrow is raging and not the slow grief that replaces it.
Great work.
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Terry McCully
{K:9221} 7/25/2003
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Nice work Jim..Blue seems to be your theme lately...I like them!
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MaryBell
{K:32791} 7/25/2003
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this is a tremendous rendering of the intensity of grief...
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Rui Leitão
{K:6321} 7/25/2003
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Very nice, Jim!
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Marion Luijten
{K:6141} 7/25/2003
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Jim, I have no words for it...exept it moves me deeply.
thank you for sharing,
Marion
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peta jones
{K:12615} 7/25/2003
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One of the first images I ever saw of yours Jim. It always has impressed me both as a wonderfully wrought image and an amazing tribute to your friend.
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lowell whipple girbes
{K:13151} 7/25/2003
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so expresive
me like it
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Anna
{K:2994} 7/25/2003
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death (sorry)
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Anna
{K:2994} 7/25/2003
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A wonderful image to say to a friend that dead is only a temporary physical separation...
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