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[Radtech1]

I am not sure how I feel about photography of sculpture. It seems like the photographer is saying, "Since I am not an artist, I will take a picture of someone else's art." But, on the other hand, musicians have for centuries been composing "variations on a theme by ..."

That being said, I am not the artist of this sculpture. It is a piece of public artwork in San Juan Capistrano, California. I got to playing around with it using various filters in PS. I hope that I have added something, rather than simply copping someone else's talent. It would be my intention to have them mounted as in the first image. The individuals are also presented a little larger scale so you can see them.

The two wide horizontal black lines are the result of slight ridges in the wall that cast an imperceptible shadow. Cranking up the contrast really brought them out. I have tried cloning them out both before and after manipulation, but it always looked obvious, so I decided to leave them.

Any thoughts?

http://users.adelphia.net/~radtech1/Photos/s5.jpg
http://users.adelphia.net/~radtech1/Photos/s1.jpg
http://users.adelphia.net/~radtech1/Photos/s2.jpg
http://users.adelphia.net/~radtech1/Photos/s3.jpg
http://users.adelphia.net/~radtech1/Photos/s4.jpg

[Scottes]

The first one is nice. I really like the glow, and the color hues on the wall. The others lose both. A touch too over-saturated to me, but that does lend to the artistic variation, so I like it for that.