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photography | January 11, 2010 | things i saw

Image Title: Symmetrical Me
Time Stamp: 10:25am
Location: Richmond (?), Vermont – Driving down Gov. Peck Hwy
Photographer: Michael McKennedy

Symmetrical Me (click for larger view)

Description: This one has been through the processing ringer! Half of the image was selected (the right half) and it was pasted as a new layer. That layer was flipped horizonally and slid over covering the left side of me. Next, a good old Dave Hill affect (the gritty-dirty, bring-out-the-imperfections look) with an extra dose of unsharp mask as described in my blog post here. And……not done yet!   Next, I took the clone stamp tool and covered the visible line created by merging the two images.   Then, using the clone stamp tool again I covered a few of the more obvious skin blemishes, freckles etc…to remove from the symmetrical look. I also erased one of the hairs that curled over the edge of my forehead. I think I finally finshed off with some contrast / highlight adjustments. Whew!

Oh, and I must say that I am really not as unhappy as the image above makes me appear.  The look was deliberate.  I am generally a very happy guy.

About the project: The ‘Things I Saw’ photography project began January 7, 2008. Since then I have shot, edited and posted one photograph per day – every day. As of January 01, 2010 I had taken a total of 26,204 images, 726 of them made it to the Things I Saw photo gallery. Take a look at all of Things I Saw photo galleries here.

• Today a ski brought me to this view of Camel's Hump – http://ow.ly/UVKo #VT #
• XC skiing was amazing this morning – I feel great! – http://ow.ly/i/iVR #photo #vermont #
• 1 hr uphill XC skiing to reach this view of Camel's Hump in #VT http://ow.ly/i/iTC #
• Half Of Nashville Road – yesterday's pic of the day – http://ow.ly/UL2M #photo #vermont #365project #
• I spent the last 2 days listening to nothing but Radiohead on shuffle and it never gets old #
• an excellent chess match between me and my 7 yr old. ended in a stalemate (both of us were down to only kings remaining) #
• time for a little XC skiing #
• great! turned on the computer to find that all of my Dreamweaver site definitions are gone – puff, just like magic – gone! WTF? #
• Night Ski – this #photo – http://ow.ly/U9SQ – marks my 733rd day in a row of posting 1 photo everyday! and on to year 3 #
• incredible 3 hour backwoods XC night ski last night. deep, fresh powdered – boy do my legs feel it this morning! #
• Tonight I will ski by headlamp #
• Behind The Bus Again – today's #photo – http://ow.ly/TvbA #
• (365 days X 2 years) X (1 hour per day (at least) per #photo) divided by 24 hours = 30.41 days! #
• wow! 1 day away from posting 1 #photo every day for 2 years straight. but will I continue? #
• @milendimov Burlington got 33.1 inches last weekend – we do have a lot of snow! in reply to milendimov #
• @000ooooo glad I could cause you a little pain in reply to 000ooooo #
• I call this #photo 'Focus' – http://mckennedy.org/blog/2010/01/05/focus/ #
• Driving on the ice rink called 89 – Richmond to Burlington was nerve racking today #vt #btv #