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04-11-2005, 09:33 AM
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| | | Canyon..Sabattier Effect
I bought a great old book on "creative darkroom" techniques by Eastman Kodak(not the digital kind), and found out about The Sabattier Effect or solarizaton. Both a positive and negative image are produced on the same film. I loved the look of it so did some reading up on digital ways of doing this. The canyon photo seemed like a good candidate and I used the V curve method. It was very interesting, the way many physical darkroom techniques are carried over into photoshop. Of course - duh! However, I was not familiar with darkroom techniques.
Margaret M (aka mlgates99) |
04-11-2005, 01:14 PM
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| | | i love the solarizaton style....it was man rays photographs done in this style which got me into photography many yrs ago..
he was way ahead of his time... |
04-12-2005, 08:12 AM
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| | | Man Ray..
I agree - way ahead. I read a little bit about him last night and was surprised to see he was born in 1890. His work is so contemporary. a true genius. |
04-12-2005, 10:21 AM
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Originally Posted by MargaretM I bought a great old book on "creative darkroom" techniques by Eastman Kodak(not the digital kind), and found out about The Sabattier Effect or solarizaton. Both a positive and negative image are produced on the same film. I loved the look of it so did some reading up on digital ways of doing this. The canyon photo seemed like a good candidate and I used the V curve method. It was very interesting, the way many physical darkroom techniques are carried over into photoshop. Of course - duh! However, I was not familiar with darkroom techniques.
Margaret M (aka mlgates99) | A very unique approach, Margaret. It's amazing (but shouldn't be, I guess) how some traditional techniques (a) still apply today and (b) with the right skills one can digitally mimic them.
Well done. |
04-22-2005, 04:30 PM
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| | | Lanscape from another planet? |
04-22-2005, 05:10 PM
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| | Mars!!! 
Welcome to RP agentpict. |
04-22-2005, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Neve Mars!!!
Welcome to RP agentpict. | Great to be here.
Cheers! |
05-21-2005, 05:47 PM
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| | | Red Rock
I thought that I would give this one a try.
Cathy  |
05-21-2005, 08:25 PM
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Originally Posted by cazubi I thought that I would give this one a try.
Cathy | An expecially nice job on the brush strokes, Cathy.
Did you by chance use one of the Impasto texture files from a Wow book?
Regardless, this looks very painted. Well done. |
05-21-2005, 10:59 PM
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| | Thanks Danny. I used PS 7 One Click pattens for the texture. There ane some natural media textures (thick paint on canvas etc.) and after I load them I use the differnt blending modes to get the result that I want. I used Painter to paint the picture, and then collaged it onto a background that I created. The texture is the final touch.
Cathy |
05-27-2005, 04:57 PM
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| | | SandyRedRock
OK, I know I'm a nerd,  but I couldn't help myself. Having done a lot of hiking on redrock, looking at this photo I was reminded how sandy it is. Hence my crazy idea. You said to have fun Danny.
My first photo art.
Annabel |
05-27-2005, 05:56 PM
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| | | sandy red rock
I think that it looks great, and is humorous too.
Cathy  |
05-29-2005, 12:04 AM
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Originally Posted by freddieanne OK, I know I'm a nerd, but I couldn't help myself. Having done a lot of hiking on redrock, looking at this photo I was reminded how sandy it is. Hence my crazy idea. You said to have fun Danny.
My first photo art.
Annabel | ...And I sure hope not your last. A simply brilliant concept and great execution.
Glad you had fun on this one. Now, you'll probably be hooked forever on this sport. So, keep on having fun in the future, too! |
05-29-2005, 07:44 PM
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| | | Thanks Cathy, I like yours as well. Now that's real art.
Danny thanks again for all your help, and thanks for encouraging newbies like myself to submit their work, however "lame" it might be. We all have to start somewhere, huh?
Annabel |
05-31-2005, 09:23 PM
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| | thought i'd bump this up with my own entry
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