From Bad Photos to Better ARt

The other week when I was visiting MOMA there were plenty of camera snapping moments to be had. Unfortunately the Security Dudes had other ideas and yapped at your heels if you took photos in some rooms, got crochety if you had your flash on in others and in the end I just contented myself with capturing what I could, without being too bothered about fiddling with manual settings on the camera.  Thanks to the tweaks you can effect in Photoshop, there was still the possibility of creating some better art from some rather bad pictures!

And, on another note:

THINGS I LEARNED TODAY -

• Google Reader is a Godsend
• You can uncheck the horrible windows tabbing thing in CS4 in the Preferences Menu
• Sprinkler Guys are not reliable
• You CAN get your pool cleaned for less than $60 a week
• Husbands with html skills are worth keeping
• Kelly Kilmer is right, you should keep your art pens flat in a drawer!

Comments

[grrl+dog]

anyone who has more comp skills is worth keeping...

[Seth]

Arggh. I always get frustrated at MoMA because I want to capture everything on film. I like your solution though. The image in this post is stellar.

[magpie]

so frustrating, those uniformed dudes.

i love taking pictures of people in the galleries at MoMA. the poses and stances.

but for me this latest incarnation of MoMA is not people friendly at all - escalators off in dark, remote region, lack of recognizable order.

LOVE the garden, though.
I was there on one of those delicious 90 degree days last month and it was heaven.

[Chris]

Wow. Not only is this GORGEOUS, and LUSCIOUS, and YUMMY, but your list of lessons learned is really GOOD!

[Vicki in Michigan]

When my pic turns out well, I usually don't mess with it much. It's the unsatisfactory ones that I tend to do more messing with......

I suppose I shouldn't forget that I can go do seriously-altering things to the good ones, in Elements, as the original isn't harmed...... :-)