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My friend Frank
My friend Frank Originally uploaded by chris_rutkowski This is my friend Frank. Before there were IBM PCs, or MACs, let alone the Internet, Frank wrote the email system for the computer I designed for Epson. We called Frank “Conan”, as in “Conan the Barbarian” because he was a force to be reckoned with – larger…
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New Jersey Diner
The Americana Diner in Hightstown, NJ. Gleaming stainless steel, bright neon lights – cases full of goodies… 5 shot HDR handheld. Making the photo Saying “HDR” in a note on Flickr might be called “trolling for pixel-peepers”. But this shot begged for HDR. The contrast ratios were extreme – we’ve got direct line-of-sight to both…
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Chillin’ (New Jersey Lake)
Chillin’ Originally uploaded by chris_rutkowski This is Dennis. Dennis is reading a book, waiting while his wife rides her horse around the wildlife preserve surrounding this lake in central NJ. I rode my bicycle within a half mile of this spot a hundred times when I lived in NJ and never even knew the lake…
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Too Late for Church
Too Late for Church Sadly the windmills on top of the modern structure are spinning so fast in the winds of the approaching storm that the blades are blurred in this shot. The future bearing down on the past – the kind of thing old guys like me think about :-)
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Pre-Apocalypse Portland Redux
This verion is “out of camera” plus one click in the Photoshop Topaz Adjust plugin, then Imagenomic’s Noiseware. Ironically, this looks more "real" than straight out of camera… Maybe one could load the out of camera shot with this one as a layer and blend the two, making this look more like out of camera…