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Topic: Photo of the week 324 (January 15, 2011)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 01-15-2011 02:38 AM
   
 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
Member Posts: 586
From: Germany
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 01-15-2011 09:23 AM
Big equipment for one photo. I pic "behind the scenes". Very fine. |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 01-15-2011 12:08 PM
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
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 01-15-2011 12:47 PM
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
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 01-15-2011 01:14 PM
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
Member Posts: 1049
From: County Down, Nothern Ireland
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 01-15-2011 04:20 PM
Here is how it turned out. |
GoesTo11
Member Posts: 1309
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 01-15-2011 05:00 PM
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
Member Posts: 244
From: Adelaide, South Australia
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 01-15-2011 07:50 PM
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
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 01-15-2011 10:52 PM
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
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 01-15-2011 11:34 PM
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
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 01-16-2011 06:00 AM
Of course there is also this alternate version... |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 01-16-2011 04:02 PM
Wow...I think the alternate version is much better than the official version. |
rjurek349
Member Posts: 1190
From: Northwest Indiana
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 01-16-2011 04:22 PM
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
Member Posts: 1309
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 01-16-2011 04:41 PM
Of course, any shot with a T-38 in it = WIN. |
WSTFphoto
Member Posts: 70
From: Las Cruces, NM, USA
Registered: May 2005
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posted 01-19-2011 10:02 AM
The photographer shown creating that image is Mark Sowa. He's still there at JSC. |
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