Fragile

In my recent tee shirt photoshoot by Sue, I was struck by something, particularly in this ↓ take, which I haven't shown until now.

It was how frail I looked.

I took the phone down to Sue to show her what I was seeing. Did my beloved reassure me that such was not the case? Did she tell me that I looked robust? No, she didn't! She just agreed that I look frail and said that I was almost 80. I was shattered, I tell you.

And then, when I met with the boys and showed the photo and told them what Sue had said, Bob said the words. "You are frail." So, there we are, and here I am. 

Now I have an ex-friend and a wife who is on shaky ground. ;)

But then I got this question on my previous post: "Has anyone told you are just too darn cute?" Well no, not until now or at least not for a very long time. This makes me feel better, and could I please have your phone number? lol

There's nothing more to say about that, so onward to some talk about photo editing.

I wanted to either crop the photo ↑ to eliminate the vacuum hose or just edit it away. Then I thought to see what photoshop could do if I asked for a "cream colored wall background" The result ↓  Unfortunately, it added some floor which I didn't notice at the time or I would have tried again.

I got more ambitious and wondered if it could take Sue out of this ↓ photo and put me in it. 

Photoshop did a good job. While such a merge would have been theoretically possible in the old days and ways, it would be been a very difficult and time-consuming task, and I, personally wouldn't have had the skill.

While I have very mixed feelings about AI creations, I think it is fair enough to use it for editing tasks that I would have liked to have done without it but couldn’t quite summon either the time or skill or both. So, I do find it acceptable to allow AI to do some of the heavy lifting for me. AI does it easier, quicker and usually better. 

Here's another result from the tee shirt shoot in which I replaced the background differently and then merged two photos into one composite. I think I should have been bigger in the goose shirt, but that is my fault; Photoshop AI just handled the actual blending (ie lighting) of the two images.

I have some fun experimenting with the new editing tools that make it easier to reach my vision although that seems to be too strong of a word for the basic work that I do.