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Part of an ongoing experiment with image manipulation: The images are the result of a 2 stage process. First, a photo is taken of a moving subject. What results is a blurred image, the distortion magnified by the grain and contrast achieved by overdevelopment of the film in the darkroom. Already the face or body has been transformed by the simple act of movement. Then in the second stage, the photo is printed. Sometimes thick glossy varnish is applied across the whole surface of the image, or alternatively, the photo is simply printed onto glossy paper. This is when more magic happens. Shining light directly onto the surface of the paper, the image is transformed again. This time the transforming agent is light. The surface of the photograph interacts with what is contained within the image. A final photo is taken.
Inspired by the movie Suckerpunch.
My model Sarah-Jane is shot against a neutral grey background and composited into the scene.
All backgrounds are themselves composites of various elements to create a 'hopefully' dramatic theatrical quality.
Strobist:
x1 Einstein640 boomed high just off centre right. x1 AlienBees AB800 camera left and x1 AlienBees AB1600 camera right to provide kicker light.
they came with the morning tide / weakened as we were by years of prescription drugs and morning television we could not mount an effective defense / soon the world was quiet again
An homage to the 'bomber girl' decals found on the sides of aircraft.
My model Sarah-Jane is shot against a neutral grey background and composited into the scene.
All backgrounds are themselves composites of various elements to create a 'hopefully' dramatic theatrical quality.
Strobist:
x1 Einstein640 boomed high just off centre right. x1 AlienBees AB800 camera left and x1 AlienBees AB1600 camera right to provide kicker light.
A slight departure for me as I have always used my own models as the main subject. I have found, and used, a couple of stock images with different lighting just to see how my post processing and compositing looks on other types of images.
I have also, for the first time, tried using Nik Software's 'Color Efex Pro 4' to process the images.
The background is one of my Daz 3D renders used previously on the 'Night falls on the street' image.
Thanks to DeviantArt:
This guy has made an awful lot of his work available as stock. Check it out :)
made from my favorite dead rubbertree leaf.
I re-visited the leaf after plunging into playing for MC#08, the !MasterClass! topic, the Small World of Macro Florals.
The !tutor! suggested how this leaf would throw intriquing shadows..
Here, you see both shadows And reflections in the glossy photo paper ground the leaf sits on.
A moody one incorporating a beach shot I did a short while ago.
My model Sarah-Jane is shot against a neutral grey background and composited into the scene.
All backgrounds are themselves composites of various elements to create a 'hopefully' dramatic theatrical quality. The background here was Meadfoot beach near to me.
Strobist:x1 Einstein640 boomed high just off centre right. x1 AlienBees AB800 camera left and x1 AlienBees AB1600 camera right to provide kicker light. Both AB's shooting through brollies.
The Goldcrest being chased away by the resident Robin! Unfortunately, I missed a proper capture as the camera was left on a watercolour effect setting!
When the Empire finally reached planet Earth, the rebellion was already here. Ready and waiting. Thanks for the heads up, Jano.
Personal work
My profile at Deviantart: embrisionarts.deviantart.com/
My Facebook: www.facebook.com/EmbrisionArts
Credits:
A lot of attention went to creating the background/scenery, the lighting/shadows and painted hair.
Background 1: Purchased at Dreamstime (forest in the back).
Background 2: clip.dn.ua/verhushki-derevev/65012_33/
Background 3: clip.dn.ua/verhushki-derevev/65012_20/
Background 4: browse.deviantart.com/resources/?q=forest#/d2cghki
Background 5 : angeliaart.deviantart.com/
Background 6: browse.deviantart.com/resources/?q=forest#/d16vhv6
Model: lockstock.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=180#/dbh2nr (nb: nudity shown)
Clothing: www.folkvangar.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info... + painted.
Lots of elements painted (incl. hair and skin).
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Inspired by the movie Suckerpunch. A cropped detail of the finished image.
My model Sarah-Jane is shot against a neutral grey background and composited into the scene.
All backgrounds are themselves composites of various elements to create a 'hopefully' dramatic theatrical quality.
Strobist:
x1 Einstein640 boomed high just off centre right. x1 AlienBees AB800 camera left and x1 AlienBees AB1600 camera right to provide kicker light.
More Bond-esque imagery going on here with a hint of cat burglar :)
My model Sarah-Jane is shot against a neutral grey background and composited into the scene.
All backgrounds are themselves composites of various elements to create a 'hopefully' dramatic theatrical quality.
Strobist:
x1 Einstein640 boomed high just off centre right. x1 AlienBees AB800 camera left and x1 AlienBees AB1600 camera right to provide kicker light.
Thanks to kren for the inspiration.
Original was a Holga shot, the colors were off and it was really overcast, so I thought it needed a make-over. Not much huh? ;)
I take these little strolls to the mailbox.. and I often can't do so without bringing back more than the mail. Consider these 'postcards", forwarded to you.
The Bills? Credit offers? Appointment reminders? I'll take care of those... those you can just leave.
Must be viewed in LARGE.
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About
Homage to M.C.Escher.
This is my first post of an image made with e-fxg, a piece of software that I've written myself to do image manipulation, e-fxg is short for Erroba's effects generator ;-)
In the future I will upload many images created with the aid of e-fxg, to show the endless possibilities of this effects generator.
° e-fxg is entirely based on mathematical functions, each effect is pure mathematics, nothing more.
° e-fxg supports complex numbers.
° e-fxg is plugin based and has no notion what so ever of the actual formulas being applied, all a plugin does is provide the mathematical formulas to be used as an effect on the image.
° A plugin can expose properties to e-fxg, which automatically generates a user interface for these properties, so that parameters that influence the calculation can be tuned by the user to alter the effects.
The shot
The shot used to produce this image can be found here Gerechtshof.
Effect applied : Holomorphic transform
The formula of the holomorphic transform :
Pixel defined by x,y :
Complex number z = x+iy;
z=z+ (0.01 -.1i ) / z;
New pixel value taken from 'pixel' :
x = real part of z
y = imaginary part of z
Formula applied for 1 frame.
Photoshop
Nothing.
You
If you are interested in e-fxg as a user, please let me know and also give me an idea of what you would pay for a copy ( in US$ or € please ).
If you are a company and are interested to buy e-fxg to commercialize it, you can contact me through my profile.
All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are ( as always ) welcome.
Music
Model by Marcus Ranum
A little nod towards the Steampunk genre influenced by watching a film recently called Iron Sky with WW2 era Nazis living on the moon.
Still, gives me a chance to indulge in some guns and rubber again ;)
The background was shot last week in the plant room of a large hotel. Never thought it would come in handy!
Yeah... a kiss... if it's not just right then I lose interest...
(Yikes, I am 2 weeks behind on this project and the year is coming to an end! Not because of lack of ideas, but lack of time... I must speed up!)
If intensity has anything to do with it, this prayer is going to be answered.
This is based on a photo which I downloaded from from Stockvault under a license that specifies I cannot transfer the license or use the image in a commercial project.
I've always loved the movie Sin City, so I've I've used the visual style as inspiration and added a little more colour.
My model Sarah-Jane is shot against a neutral grey background and composited into the scene.
All backgrounds are themselves composites of various elements to create a 'hopefully' dramatic theatrical quality.
Strobist:
x1 Einstein640 boomed high just off centre right. x1 AlienBees AB800 camera left and x1 AlienBees AB1600 camera right to provide kicker light.
I INSIST on viewing this LARGE ON BLACK. If not, you will never see the hmmmr on the right ;-)
Introducing: Dickson St on Fayetteville. The Most Happening Place in Northwest Arkansas :-) and I am sure my local friends and friends who have been here will agree. One of my favorite haunts, when I am in town, that is. It is a small mile long stretch that can be quiet and idyllic on a snowy day like this, or full of fun and cheer during events like the Bike, Blues and BBQ, when 36000 bikers from all over US occupy this mile long stretch. Pride of Fayetteville, I should say :-)
This shot was taken on the same day I took "The Red Bridge", one of our favorites from me.
Have a great Wednesday! Weekend is almost there :-)
This is a redux version (kind of...) of an image I did ages ago called 'The dark place'.
For this revisit - I thought I'd turn it around and instead of a dark place - it would be a place of light and safety (hopefully!)
Strobist:x1 Einstein640 boomed high just off centre right. x1 AlienBees AB800 camera left and x1 AlienBees AB1600 camera right to provide kicker light.
I knew the shadows under his chair might be a problem so I just created a large soft shaded area which seems to work ok. I also had to fudge the blown highlight on his guitar. I have shots where I moved him to stop the reflection, but I liked his expression here.
The full version is here:
www.flickr.com/photos/bigpicture1966/8158252144/in/photos...
(edit) as a side note: Chris was playing all the time I was shooting. It was like having my own free concert :)
model/stock credit faestock.deviantart
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Woods on top of the Wrekin, near Telford, Shropshire. One good thing about the rain is that it makes forest photos so much better. It was damp and overcast when this shot was taken.
I used a polarising filter to reduce glare and a tripod. It almost exposed perfectly, but I used two other exposures (+/- 1eV) and blended all three in Photomatix to make a new layer, which I selectively blended into the original. This is a tip I got from Larry Gerbrandt's Flickr page: here