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Created: May 13, 2005
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Visual Sociology: Learning to Play Again

This piece is based on New Chapters in the Dinosauar Chronicles By John Noble Wilford, on p. B 29 of Weekend Arts in the New York Times, on May 13, 2005.

Sara Krulwich/The New York Times A Tyrannosaurus rex in "Dinosaurs."
New York Times, Weekend Arts, May 13, 2005. Image taken from Internet version of newspaper.

New York Times, Weekend Arts, May 13, 2005. Psychedelic effect from Corel Photo House program under color effects. Blur effect on the dinosaur of tyranos07.jpg. The blur softens the background so that the dinosaur stands out better. This is the image I swirled.

Each of the links below will take you to one of the versions of the above photograph with which I played. jeanne

New York Times, Weekend Arts, May 13, 2005 Image taken from printed newspaper.

New York Times, Weekend Arts, May 13, 2005. Image modified by using paint can and brush in a paint program. But coloring it looks too rough and doesn't capture what I was feeling. jeanne

We're all fascinated by dinosaurs, especially Tryranosaurus Rex. I put up this one from the fornt page of the Weekend Arts section in the hope that someone would have as much fun with it as I did. The photograph is fine, but it doesn't have the punch of the actual print. The one in print is really scary.

New York Times, Weekend Arts, May 13, 2005. Image modified by using effects in a Corel Photo House program. Now this one is getting close to the scary look I remember from when I first opened the paper. Notice that sometimes photographs don't give you the same feeling as the real thing. That's where art comes in handy. These days, with photo programs available on computers, even with an old program like this one that came with my computer, I can alter the original image until it begins to give me the same feeling I was trying to capture. jeanne

New York Times, Weekend Arts, May 13, 2005. Image modified by using effects in a Corel Photo House program. Very close to what I wanted, but distraction from grainy background.

New York Times, Weekend Arts, May 13, 2005. Curl the page effect from Corel Photo House program.

New York Times, Weekend Arts, May 13, 2005. Psychedelic effect from Corel Photo House program under color effects.

New York Times, Weekend Arts, May 13, 2005 Psychedelic effect from Corel Photo House program under color effects.

New York Times, Weekend Arts, May 13, 2005. Psychedelic effect from Corel Photo House program under color effects.

New York Times, Weekend Arts, May 13, 2005. Psychedelic effect from Corel Photo House program under color effects.

New York Times, Weekend Arts, May 13, 2005 Psychedelic effect from Corel Photo House program under color effects - mixed colors.

New York Times, Weekend Arts, May 13, 2005. Vignette effect from Corel Photo House program under artistic effects.

New York Times, Weekend Arts, May 13, 2005.Grayscale effect from Corel Photo House program under color effects.

New York Times, Weekend Arts, May 13, 2005. Grayscale effect from Corel Photo House program under color effects with page curl from cool & fun.

New York Times, Weekend Arts, May 13, 2005. Swirl effect from Corel Photo House program under distortion effects. Swirled the dinosaur of tyranos07.jpg.

New York Times, Weekend Arts, May 13, 2005. Warp effect from Corel Photo House program under distortion effects. Ripple effect on the dinosaur of tyranos07.jpg.

New York Times, Weekend Arts, May 13, 2005. Warp effect from Corel Photo House program under distortion effects. Warp effect on the dinosaur of tyranos07.jpg.

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