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A TOUR OF HOLLY
A Photo-Impressionist Slide Show
by Dave Moorman
When it comes to digital cameras,
I want one with a FlashRAM card,
through-the-lens view finder, and 35
to 100 zoom. On the otherhand, I had
only $44 while at WalMart last week.
So I got a little camera with a
lens about the size of a "promise
ring" diamond. Its high resolution is
640 x 480 -- about what one gets from
a VHS Camcorder. But that is more than
enough for my current craziness. My
little camera fits in my pocket and
takes 26 images before I need to
download it.
All the better to feed my new
passion!
Photo-Impressionism is not exactly
new. Walt Harned is the grand master
at making a photograph into a work of
art. But I am having a ball learning
my way around the media/genre.
Using my PC, I load the photo into
Adobe Photo Deluxe to crop/compress it
for C-64 work. A 320 x 200 (slightly
scrunched) image works best on the VIC
II screen. Photo Deluxe's "export to
GIF" function allows switching off the
interlacing -- which is necessary for
GoDot. I use 64Copy to move the GIFs
to a D64 disk image, where GoDot/VICE
can easily get to it.
And GoDot does a great job of
bringing the image into the C-64! The
colors usually need some tweaking.
Contrast and Brightness will perform
interesting color shifts. Then the
Palette can be used to replace some
colors with others.
GoDot has a MOD called "Raster
IFLI", which pixelates colors,
creating better blends at the cost of
some definition. Sometimes it helps
(as with the Downtown image), and
sometimes a blockier color rendering
is better (the Parsonage).
This "tour" occured one afternoon
as I went about my business around
town. Only the Parsonage and Church
images were originally from a 35mm
camera. And to be strictly honest, the
pictures of the hay shed and grain
elevators were taken in Coolidge, KS
-- because that was where I was when I
saw the scene!
All you need to be a Photo-
Impressionistic artist is an eye that
knows what you like to see. You also
need a PC, a digital camera, a good
photo program like Photo Deluxe, and
GoDot.
Many (most) of you do not live on
the prairie. Show us the world you see
every day. If you are not loaded down
with computer equipment, send me six
to ten of your photos and I will turn
them into appropriately sized
non-interlaced GIFs on a 1541 disk. In
fact, I will do the first 20 such
orders for free. When you get the disk
back, get cracking with GoDot! Then
put them in a slide show and share
your world with us.
In the process, you will see
ordinary things around you in a new
way.
DMM