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1900-1920 - The Samaritans of Nablus (Shechhem). Baby Samaritan.

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Bikes on rails, how cool is that?  But uhhh… the baby?  Not exactly up to the safety standards of today.  From the “America on the Move” collection at the National Museum of American History (click the picture to go there)

1864 - Aiken's Landing, Virginia (vicinity). Young girl at Aiken house

I fell in love with this image when I found it about 6 months ago.  Since then, I’ve struggled to imagine what to do with it.  She’s too stern to smile, her hands are fixed and her dress is too complex.  Then I noticed a bit of a wind blur where the ribbon on her dress is, and it occurred to me - the movement can be made primarily in the environment.  I focus too much on the subject when, sometimes, manipulating the environment can give it more of a real feeling.

Some details struck me when working with the full sized image.  She was married, and she was a very hard worker.  She’s young, yet her hands are scarred.  One nail appears to be just growing back in.  Her face shows a hard life, yet her hair and dress are immaculate, despite the windy day.  So I guess because of all these details, it was important to me to get her right.  Seeing things like that make the person more real to me and, hopefully, more real to you as well.

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A very cool fire animation:

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1900-1920 - Bethlehem and surroundings. Well of David .

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I finally got it down to two repeating background frames.  This stereo was in excellent condition, otherwise I probably wouldn’t have been able to pull it off.  They tend to get large faded and darkened areas, which I have to mask out in order to eliminate the flashy effect it creates.  With this one I had maybe 10-12 level adjustment layers, that’s about 1/4 of what I usually have.  This image is a total of 8 frames, I lost count of how many layers after I hit 70.  It took about 6 hours total to create.

There was a lot of great detail lost when I shrunk this image down.  There is a cross at the top of the well (colored in bright blue), as well as writing down the side.  View the original image here.

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1923 - Barnum's Clown (Woman looking at clown while pointing to her arm muscle, weights labelled 250 lbs. on floor.)

More animation practice.

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1923 - The Girl in the moon

This is the same girl on the moon as in my ‘how are these created’ post below, just a different pose.  This is my first time attempting a falling pattern, can’t wait to try it out on a waterfall!

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1900-1920 - Egyptian views; The pyramids of Gizeh. Photographer near top of Great Pyramid.

There’s no extra movement on this one,  just the stereo card colorized.

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