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I have been playing with my non existing creative skills on this old flower photo from 2014.
Thanks to everyone who takes the time to view, comment, and fave my photo.
.... looking down on the water from a rickety wooden bridge, over a small stream. The water was flowing over a log, and the 'figures' were marching across it in constantly changing forms ....
The process of making batik is still traditional from old days and not changes until now. Still can be seen from the tools and function of the equipment are quite traditional and unique.
Taken@Garut, West Java, Indonesia
These are preview images for the talk I am giving at UCLA tomorrow.
Made with Processing and runs in near realtime (anywhere from 5 to 30 fps). The sphere surface is not traditionally texture mapped and is made up of a couple hundred freely moving overlapping textures. The entire system is dynamic, and with a zippy computer, could probably be audio responsive with little extra overhead.
Trying to use Lightroom for a little more creative kind of treatment . Do you like it or do you think I went too far? Any comments are very much appretiated.
Yesterday I showed you a standard handcrafted cyanotype print. I described the process of applying the sensitising chemicals to the paper and exposing it to sunlight. I then showed what happens to the print when it is toned using a simple dark tea (tannic acid).
That's what I have done here with this cyanotype print of "The Soldier" (on the left hand side). You can see clearly how it has been stained in a bath of strong black tea. The tannic acid in the tea reacts with the ferric oxide and turns the blue to grey. The stained paper then takes on a kind of sepia tone.
The cyanotype process is very rewarding, but it requires a carefully thought-out hands on crafting experience. Planning and workflow is everything. So the four-part image above shows the main stages of preparing the print you will see next, "The Soldier".
1. Start with a raw image of the statue.
2. Convert this to black and white.
3. Produce a digital negative.
4. Make the cyanotype print (which will appear blue). Then stain it in a tea bath. This was soaked in tea for 10 minutes.
Once you have your stained print fully dried, you can cut it to size as seen in the next picture.
* A NOTE ON THE PAPER:
Since this is a wet process involving washing and soaking the paper it is vital to use high quality art paper. No less than 360 gsm. It is also important that it be acid free paper (since acids react with the cyanotype chemicals). In my case I used Reeves acrylic paper. For the soldier I produced an A4 size negative and initial print, but tomorrow I will show you two prints made on A5 size paper.
Girls and Roses canvas full color!
acrylic on canvas / 100 x 80 cm
photo ref: Laura Encursiva, sus fotos son por demas increibles.
www.flickr.com/photos/encursiva/
photo model: www.flickr.com/photos/encursiva/2886217172/
Jeff Clow's been pushing the Topaz application so I downloaded a trial version. I think this is one of my favorite shots of Cloudgate as it is not too over the top and might be worthy of a print. Check it out large.
Here are the steps taken to produce this shot:
1. Get up at about 5:30am in Chicago
2. Take a cab to Millennium Park
3. Set up your camera if you're carrying a tripod.
4. Wait for sunrise.
5. Politely ask rent-a-cop to move
6. Fire off as many shots as you can before it is time to go to your business meeting.
7. Archive your shots and save for inclement days (blizzard coming in Colorado)
8. Export into photoshop
9. Reduce noise using your application of choice.
10 Play with levels.
11. Run Topaz Adjust (I tried Psychedelic)
12. Realize that the preset is way over the top and fade down about 75%)
13. Bring back into Lightroom and run a cross process preset.
14. Play with the sliders until you like what you see.
15.. Export as jpg and upload.
16. Realize that was one hour of your life that you can't get back and that you probably should have went to the gym...