Photoshop CSI edition.

This version has the CSI Face Aware algorithm that will render a perfect face from only two out of focus pixels…

Many of us have watched CSI, NCIS, Hawaii 5-0 and have seen this amazing version of Photoshop at work. I love the fact that police forces with ever shrinking budgets have better computers than Star Trek (200+ years in the future) We marvel at 48″ touch screen flat panels that work like enormous iPads. I sit in awe with their 3D holographic projected display…

A lifetime ago (late 1970′s) I was a R.C.M.P. Forensic Photographer-Technician, which is pretty much our national CIS.

With a little tongue-in-cheek, I created the new Photoshop box…

Darrell Larose
Ottawa

Still looking down on winter…

More low attitude (200′ AGL) snow scapes…

Darrell Larose
somewhere over Ottawa.

Thinking of Car Shows.

Now that Ottawa is in a Winter Wonderland, my thoughts turn to summer and Car Shows.

Darrell Larose
Ottawa, Canada

Looking Down on Snow

Ottawa over the past few days had around 8-10″ of new snow.  Here are a few shots looking down on the fields of white. Pentax *istD dSLR, with Tokina AT-X 60~120mm f:2.8 zoom lens.

Here we see ice fog from the Ottawa River creating a layered image fade out.

Darrell Larose
DarrellLarose.ca

2012: HAPPY NEW YEAR!

2012:  HAPPY NEW YEAR!

May 2012 be a great year.

Darrell Larose.
Ottawa.

Winter 2011~2012

Just in time for Christmas, December 23, 2011  Ottawa awoke this morning with a dusting of snow. Up until then Ottawa was basking in above normal tempertures, there was no ground frost and we had green lawns through out the City.

And  some more snow, in my aerial views. Today we have a heavy snow fall warning, so I will guess I’ll have more to show then.

Darrell Larose

Playing around with Photoshop

I tried the Photohop “Theshold” adjustment, and got these interesting results. In order of my preference.

My second choice would be,

And my final choice, of the three would be.

These are fun, as in the darkroom days we would have copied the image to Litho film, or made a paper negative and gone numerous generations to bump up the contrast. All time & materials.

Darrell

 

Yet another walk downtown

I was out and about on a sunny afternoon. Enjoying the warm out of season weather. Again I had my 14mm lens, and I again was playing with buildings.

I liked the geometrics of this one.

Oblique angles are fun to work with.

Ottawa is full or glass box buildings, all have angular faces that can be worked with.

Maybe next time I’ll wonder over to Douglas Cardinal’s Museum of Civilization, with it’s organic curves.

Darrell

I don’t just do photography

Design Work

I have a small portfolio of graphic design work, logos and
other items used on websites and other items

More coming soon …

Logo design – 1999
NewForce Communications
Ottawa, Canada
Designed this equipment logo

Design was created to be screen printed on
NewForce’s Digital Witness, digital surveilance
recorder.

Logo design – 1994
Camera Club of Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada
Designed this equipment logo

Logo designed for Web pages, I had a TIFF scan
of the Camera Club’s 100 year old logo, made it into
a 3D medallion for their website

Here is the rendered Camera Club of Ottawa “coin”

A logo used on the Camera Club of Ottawa Facebook page

And the masthead from the Camera Club of Ottawa’s website..

I will now have to go through my archives to find other logos and graphics I have created…

Darrell