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Attached is a photograph from the night we all went to Agatha’s for the dinner theater; this version is rendered with some specific lighting and brush stroke filters. The original was almost unusable due to the shutter speed I used at the time and was filled with tons of “image noise” and blur making it also pretty much unprintable and un-presentable. Even with digital photography nothing is perfect.

But instead of throwing it away or trying to fix an unfixable thing, I made it into something else. By color saturating the canvas and blurring the lines the viewer’s attention can be brought back to the original serenity that was intended to be captured in the first place. Many of my best creative works have come about in this manner –a realization I continue to find quite inspiring when something broken and commonly to be discarded can become something else entirely.

Enjoy the picture.

V/R
J. Keys

This is one of my first “painted images”. The original photo was of me folding a blanket in my dorm room at Auburn (in Noble Hall). It’s not possible to, of course, see any of that original photo now but it calls to light where such a amazing creation can begin. There are two faces in the image here, a small voodoo doll like in the middle and a larger face on the outside with a mouth toward the bottom. Photo credit ( 47images.com )

This was take after an afternoon of running around and playing with some new puppies that a friend of mine just received. They are brother and sister dogs and were all tired out. It was just another great, chance shot in the back of a truck. The image was specifically cropped with black, letter box borders to take on the appearance of a movie screen. Photo credit ( 47images.com )

“To me, taking a simple photograph, or “normal” photograph, and making into something else is no different than a painter who starts with a brush and a blank canvas. Some say that I’m only making more on top of what’s already there but I disagree. I see it as removing the veneer to reveal what is beyond what the eyes see and exposing what the mind can perceive.

There is also a great challenge in this and, most often, with photographs that aren’t classic or considered proper by standard. These things are discarded or labeled as waste and what I’ve been able to generate is something that has moved one person or another when, in it’s original form, it would have not done so. This is the fruition of taking a broken thing and giving it purpose which I find not only semblance in, for myself, but immense spiritual satisfaction.” – J. Keys

This is another reflection creation that was originally taken by shooting from the rear quarter panel of a Toyota Celica, looking to a sunset. The folds and adjustments came out to be a very harsh looking, almost alien like face (I think it remarks similar to a Decepticon, e.g. Megatron). Very dramatic and peculiar. Photo credit ( 47images.com )

This was a photography taken very low to the ground at the campus “green” at Kennesaw State University. There are bricked paths that lead into the big green area but there are also these other paths that others have trampled down as well. I find this occurrence a missed epic that most people pass over. Though a small trail, in and of itself, it was forged by those who wished to create it instead of taking another. Photo credit ( 47images.com )

This was a shot from the top of the hill that I live on. There was a gorgeous sunset and the vantage point from where I live is great for shots of the setting sun. As I was backing up to get higher on the hill, a magnolia tree started to obscure my view and this almost alien/samurai like creature was staring at me. This image is relatively untouched in post-process.
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The commission of this image was prompted by the creation of a custom CD made for a friend. The original is comprised of two layers, both negative, with a third layer applied using a Japanese kanji character which is of an old dialect that roughly translates to the English word, “Impression”. Photo credit ( 47images.com )

This was a great set of shots atop of the Mattress Factory Lofts on the southside of Atlanta (I believe it was the 4th of July). I’ve always been a fan of The Matrix trilogy and application of that coded veneer over the world that the characters live and fight in. In processing this image I was testing some filters and accidentally bent only one side of the shot which gave it that “falling off” look and it struck me so I left it that way.

This photo was take in my sun room; some roses in a vase sitting on top of a mirror. This is a particularly vexing image to look at because though it appears upside down it is in fact not upside down (the base of the vase, upright, is clearly a part of the frame). An ultra-high contrast, black and white version of this photo is also available. Photo credit ( 47images.com )

This was originally a photograph taken inside the favorite Starbucks that I frequent, at an off-axis angle. I quite like this kind of shot –instead of purely landscape or portrait. There’s something to it that forces the mind to analyze and correct for the it in some kind of creative translation. I think, too, this is why I affect my photography the way that I do –I’ve termed it “painting the image”. Although a photograph in and of itself can be a marvelous thing I like to explore what might just be beyond that mundane layer. This is the most creative and passionate aspect of what and why I partake in this kind of thing (and ultimately what has lead me to market 47 Images and attempt to deploy my gallery).

Some of my greatest creations have had generous elements of chance and “oops!” This was a photo of a screen saver ( from reallyslick.com ) playing on my laptop. I upped the blue level and used a reflecting mirror filter (with a minor paint brush edit as well) and came up with this. To me it resembles the wings of an angel. Photo credit: ( 47images.com )

This was one of the very first photographs take with my Nikon D40x. I was sitting at my favorite Starbucks on Barrett Parkway and, of course, was still learning how to set the camera up properly when I snapped this is slow shutter scene. There’s great juxtaposition here with the emptiness and stillness of the chairs up against the appearance of the rushing lights of the cars; often the scene at a cafe where people stop to warm up and speak in the rushed world we live in each day. Photo credit ( 47images.com ).

This was a shot taken from within downtown Atlanta, Georgia. I was out with some co-workers from Kennesaw State University and we had just finished dinner and mystery theatre at Agatha’s. The original shot, again, turned out terrible and blurry too. I applied some brush stroke filtering to it with some color balance and saturation as well and it became one of my most commented and popular pieces ever. Photo credit; ( 47images.com )