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Triple Helix

Triple Helix came into the studio with a very specific idea: the trio wanted to be photographed as if they were climbing a city street pole topped with the name of Beethoven. Though a road by that name existed in Newton, they decided that going on location would be too iffy-and require a rain date, among other things-and might preclude us from doing other shots in the studio that day. Knowing we could get some digital ace to merge two photos in the Adobe PhotoShop program, we made two images: one of the group frolicking on a wooden pole in my Porter Square studio, and one of the sign in Newton, minus the trio. Our digital ace turned out to be Sue Hamilton at Dorian Color Labs in Arlington, who actually merged three images to create this one: the trio on the pole, Rhonda Rider's head pulled from another photo in this series, and the Newton signpost. This delightfully whimsical and decidedly faked photo was the result.