Another little note: I’m still in the hospital, but my friendly co-conspirators have been (as usual) great friends, and allowed me to chose or chosen themselves themes that I can fulfill from here! Thanks!

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beauty

A close-up of my wife’s right eye. The setting sun was projecting a beautiful light into the room. I just sharpened the center a bit more than the edges, and reduced the overall yellow saturation. The strange shadow seen to the right of the center of the eye is the contact lens, which I didn’t think was worth cloning out. It was taken with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3 in macro mode.

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enigmatic smile

On the next day, the same kind of light. My wife’s chin and lips. I just changed the yellow saturation a bit. The black background is the result of the contrast of the direct sun on my wife’s face and the background just getting reflected light - it’s no Photoshop trick. Also taken with my trusty fact totum Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3, which has revealed itself a very nice camera when you learn how to trick the automatic modes.

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ET phone home

My and my wife’s index fingers touching tip to tip, just like ET phoning home, minus the glow! The background is the white room ceiling, it didn’t come out perfect, I had to fill it in a bit so it wouldn’t distract the viewer from the main focus. I also sharpened the center a bit more than the edges, to increase the effect. Also taken with the TZ3.

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shadow

For this one I asked my wife Gabriela to hold a bedsheet between my hand and the window. I compensated the exposure to -2 f-stops. On Photoshop, I removed some of the kinks that the sheet had that distracted from the firm outline of the hand, and also applied a smart filter to enhance the light behind the hand to create a subtle halo effect. I hope you don’t think I cheated to much on this one . It was also taken with the TZ3.

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love

My and Gabriela’s hands with the fingers interlaced. If I hadn’t been stuck indoors for the past month, my hand would be much darker than hers! B/W, levels, and some sharpening in Photoshop, also taken with the TZ3 over a pillow.

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greater love

Our daughter Carolina’s hand on my wife’s (I wanted another position, but she wasn’t in that “posing” mood ). As the top of picture reached the end of the pillow, I had to fill it in on the top right, it would lose the simple feeling of the picture if I hadn’t. It’s amazing how much she has grown in the past year and half!! Also taken with the ever more trusty TZ3.

 

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I would have liked to explore bigger parts of the body (in a kind of abstract nude way), but it’s difficult in my current settings. Even so I liked the results, within the limits, and I’m enjoying working with the TZ3 a lot, it just needs manual modes and a flash hotshoe to be the perfect pocket camera.