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Egg of St. Isaac's


	Egg of St. Isaac's Couldn't resist playing around with Polar manipulation, and some warping, resulting in an egg-sphere of the church's inner dome. Chris Budny

Gene Spears

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March 11, 2010

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Thanks, Gene! I always have fun messing around with filters. The "double-Polar-Coordinates" trick - to make a photoball - created an ellipse initially (since the photo was rectangular, not square, to begin with). And then I did a 180-degree turn on the "circle with the saint" (against the blue background at lower center), so that he was upright (the initial result had him upside down). Finally, I used the Transform-Warp to tweak the ellipse into more of an egg/oval shape. An egg shape seemed appropriate for a photo of a czarist-era church dome, given the Faberge connection with the czars, etc.

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March 13, 2010

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Excellent work, Christopher.
Congratulations on your photo being featured in the Digital Darkroom newsletter.