I took some pictures of the progress in the backyard and Charlie’s party. We blogged about Charlie's party on our family blog and soon we'll have more blogs about the progress of the backyard and Charles' reaction to it. But in this post I wanted to include some photos and descriptions.
One would think that decolourizing the background would be fairly easy. And it is in most cases. This time however Photoshop Elements did not want to recognise the ribbons as separate from the background; it took quite a long time to select them, sometimes even selecting individual pixels.
This picture (and the next) remind me of Depression-era photography. Here we see a man (my father-in-law) working on a project with various tools and construction materials in the scene. The difference between this and the Depression era is that I'm not being paid to photograph nor is he being paid to work (and it's also not a public works project).
This also reminds me of Depression-era photography with tools and debris around the chairs.
The next two photographs I find interesting because of the very different mood they project, simply by colour.
And now in black and white and a slightly different angle.
We cleaned small river rock we had in our yard and set it down. The below are close-ups of the rock. They don't give the scale of the rock but in our post on the backyard we'll have more information on that.
And this is a picture taken using the camera's digital macro feature.
Hopefully I have not been too boring; perhaps I should have left the pictures unexplained as it seems pictures translate poorly into words. Let me know what you think.
