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Stiff Beret 1

Utata ~ Iron Photographer 182

Iron Photographer 182.

But there's an empty glass at the end of every IP project. And every empty glass is a glass ready to be filled. For Iron Photographer 182, we'll be pouring in the following elements: :

1 - a head
2 - something on the head that doesn't belong there
3 - heavy post-processing.

The first element is a head. We're talking about the cephalic part of an animal. You know, the bit of the body which is most commonly comprised of the eyes, ears, nose and mouth. And maybe the brain. It can be a human head, an orangutan head, a dragon's head, the head of an angel, a horse's head in the bed of a movie producer, or the head of any other creature. It can be your head or the head of another. It can be a living head, an exanimate head, a ceramic head, a head carved in ice, the Golden Head of Quetzalcoatl that Indiana Jones was looting stealing pilfering acquiring for a museum. We don't care, so long as it's identifiable as a head.

The second element is something on the head that doesn't belong there. I'm not going to attempt to list all the things that don't belong on a head. There are probably several dozen things that don't belong on a head. For example, a salmon. Or mint dental floss. Molten gold (unless you're Dothraki, in which case I will only urge caution in the choice of heads). All that's required is to take something that doesn't belong on a head and put that thing on a head. Pretty simple, really.

The artistic element is heavy post-processing. We don't care what sort of post-processing you do, only that you do it and do it a lot. We don't care how you post-process -- photoshop, picasa, GIMP, scratching a negative with your sharpened teeth, smearing it with butterscotch pudding. We don't care if you lomo-ize it, posterize it, Holga-fy it, Orton-ize it, saturate it to within an inch of its life, selectively color bits of it, or all of the aforementioned techniques. All we care is that you post-process it to a ridiculous extent. And then maybe do it again.

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The photographer poses in a rather stiff beret for his second attempt at creating a photograph for Utata's Iron Photographer 182. It's a better fit, but not that comfortable.

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© 2013 Jeff Stewart. All rights reserved.

Taken on: September 26, 2013

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Camera: Nikon D7000, f/16.0, 1/10 sec, 38mm (=57mm), ISO 3200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D7000
Aperture:	f/16.0
Exposure Time:	0.1 sec (1/10)
Focal Length:	38mm (35mm equivalent: 57mm)
ISO:	3200
Exposure Bias:	-2/3 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	High gain up
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0 Windows
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