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heng44 | The STS-41 crew are up early to pose with a T-38 jet at Ellington Field for their official crew portrait in May 1990. This was clearly in the pre-Photoshop days. Ed Hengeveld |
East-Frisian | Big equipment for one photo. I pic "behind the scenes". Very fine. |
mjanovec | You have to admire all of the work that went into capturing this crew photo. While Photoshop has its merits, I wonder what excellent photos were NOT taken because of it. |
Philip | The early days of photo editing software started at the end of the 1980s. Photoshop was originally named "Display," renamed "ImagePro" (1988) and developed into the software we know nowadays with filters, 3D effects, etc. Don't know why NASA started with Photoshop crew photos but I don't like these.
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Hart Sastrowardoyo | Who makes the decision as to the composition of a crew photo (aside from the generic "get the crew around a table"?) The commander? The crew as a whole? |
ASCAN1984 | Here is how it turned out. |
GoesTo11 | I hate hate hate the Photoshopped crew portraits. Maybe it's just nostalgia on my part, but I loved the '80s lithos with crews gathered around big models of the Shuttle and framed by flags. I collected those when I was a kid, and I wish I still had them. |
Henry Heatherbank | quote: Originally posted by GoesTo11: I hate hate hate the Photoshopped crew portraits.
I agree wholeheartedly, with possibly the worst offender being STS-124, with the crew photoshopped supposedly inside a hanger (VAB?) that looks out on to the shuttle on the launch pad in the near distance; a setting that did not, does not and never could, exist in reality. Ridiculous. |
cspg | quote: Originally posted by Philip: Don't know why NASA started with Photoshop crew photos but I don't like these.
If I were to guess, I would say that Photoshop is much cheaper than preparing a photo shoot as illustrated by this week's photo. |
mjanovec | I didn't notice it earlier, but it looks like they wet down the tarmac for this photo to get a nice reflection. If you look closely, you'll see the wet pavement ends near the photographer's feet. Also, you can see where it ends on the opposite side of the T-38. |
heng44 | Of course there is also this alternate version... |
mjanovec | Wow...I think the alternate version is much better than the official version. |
rjurek349 | I agree. A great use by the photographer of the ladder and the angle and light to create a real sense of drama. Very cool shot. |
GoesTo11 | Of course, any shot with a T-38 in it = WIN. |
WSTFphoto | The photographer shown creating that image is Mark Sowa. He's still there at JSC. |