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chrisdesign
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Not bad for 1992!?
Paul, it would be most interesting to know what year you created this one.
Paul, it would be most interesting to know what year you created this one.
chrisdesign
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Try it please, it would be very interesting.
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What a great idea for a thread, Paul! In addition to just posting images, I think this would be an ideal place to tell something about your own early artistic background.
I started playing around with digital art in the mid 1980's on a Mac 128 (using MacPaint), stayed with Macs (and early versions of PS) for a few years, but then switched to Windows and Micrografix Picture Publisher (or whatever it was called back then) in the early 90's. A few years after that, PCs became powerful enough to do something useful with Photoshop, so I started using PS for Windows and never looked back.
Unfortunately, until the late 90's, I hadn't given any thought to the need for migrating my image files to new formats (eg, smaller floppies, other file types) as they were developed, so, without a lot of pain, I don't have any way to dig up my very first image files. Besides, they weren't exactly the pinnacle of artistic achievement :-( , so I'm not too worried about that stuff getting buried in the sands of time. ;-)
In contrast, I have been very careful to preserve all the photos that I ever took, going all the way back to the mid-1950s when I was just a kid. From day 1, I shot almost exclusively Kodachromes, and these have stood up to the ravages of time very well.
So, it's not exactly digital art (until I digitized it a few years ago), but here's a photo from my first "paid" assignment back in the late 1950's. A neighbor was a member of the British delegation to the UN. He had never seen an American raccoon, and wasn't able to get a good shot of one himself, so he commissioned this little 9 year old nerdy kid (ie, me) to do it. He loaned me his Exacta VXIIb, a 58 mm Biotar, a tripod, a flash gun, some bulbs, and some Kodachrome. I remember being incredibly nervous about being expected to do something with all that equipment because up to that time, I had only used Brownies and some cheap 127 roll film rangefinder that my father had. My payment from our neighbor was a WWII German view camera that I used for many years thereafter.
Anyway, I've rambled on enough. Here's one of my first serious photos I ever took - from 1957 or '58.
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I started playing around with digital art in the mid 1980's on a Mac 128 (using MacPaint), stayed with Macs (and early versions of PS) for a few years, but then switched to Windows and Micrografix Picture Publisher (or whatever it was called back then) in the early 90's. A few years after that, PCs became powerful enough to do something useful with Photoshop, so I started using PS for Windows and never looked back.
Unfortunately, until the late 90's, I hadn't given any thought to the need for migrating my image files to new formats (eg, smaller floppies, other file types) as they were developed, so, without a lot of pain, I don't have any way to dig up my very first image files. Besides, they weren't exactly the pinnacle of artistic achievement :-( , so I'm not too worried about that stuff getting buried in the sands of time. ;-)
In contrast, I have been very careful to preserve all the photos that I ever took, going all the way back to the mid-1950s when I was just a kid. From day 1, I shot almost exclusively Kodachromes, and these have stood up to the ravages of time very well.
So, it's not exactly digital art (until I digitized it a few years ago), but here's a photo from my first "paid" assignment back in the late 1950's. A neighbor was a member of the British delegation to the UN. He had never seen an American raccoon, and wasn't able to get a good shot of one himself, so he commissioned this little 9 year old nerdy kid (ie, me) to do it. He loaned me his Exacta VXIIb, a 58 mm Biotar, a tripod, a flash gun, some bulbs, and some Kodachrome. I remember being incredibly nervous about being expected to do something with all that equipment because up to that time, I had only used Brownies and some cheap 127 roll film rangefinder that my father had. My payment from our neighbor was a WWII German view camera that I used for many years thereafter.
Anyway, I've rambled on enough. Here's one of my first serious photos I ever took - from 1957 or '58.
T
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These two composites are from 1995.
private work
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private work
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Those are damn good for any time, Chris, let alone 1995.
Which platform were you on in those days: PC or Mac? Photoshop or something else?
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PS - The 1st strikes me as very Magritte-like. It looks like you were having a lot of fun with the tools.
PS#2 - Correction: In my post, I said that I used an Exacta VXIIb. I just remembered, it was a VXIIa.
Which platform were you on in those days: PC or Mac? Photoshop or something else?
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PS - The 1st strikes me as very Magritte-like. It looks like you were having a lot of fun with the tools.
PS#2 - Correction: In my post, I said that I used an Exacta VXIIb. I just remembered, it was a VXIIa.
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Yes it was done on a MAC, (don't know what model) and it was done with "Photoshop".
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Thanks Tom...yes it was fun, very Magritte-like...I think it was Photoshop 3, i could use layers already and some of the filter effects where amazing for those days...
...and thanks for your very interesting comment about your raccoon shot. That was way cool of you for that age, amazing!
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a very artistic picture
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One of my first edits, after a girl broke up with my best friend haha (south park joke)
This was my first "real" photoshop project. I was a senior in high school (2008) I started using photoshop about the end of 2007, and I picked up photography about the same time.
Long story short, the parents knew I went to all the games to take photos and word spread about me taking photos and posting them online, and the Boosters asked if I could make a poster for all the seniors. So of course I accepted the challenge and this is what I came up with.
And to this day, this is what I'm known for in my small town, making sport posters. Everyones always asking me can I make one of their kid. To this day, I've made maybe 50-60
This was my first "real" photoshop project. I was a senior in high school (2008) I started using photoshop about the end of 2007, and I picked up photography about the same time.
Long story short, the parents knew I went to all the games to take photos and word spread about me taking photos and posting them online, and the Boosters asked if I could make a poster for all the seniors. So of course I accepted the challenge and this is what I came up with.
And to this day, this is what I'm known for in my small town, making sport posters. Everyones always asking me can I make one of their kid. To this day, I've made maybe 50-60
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