I have recently been revisiting all of my stored Apophysis renders. I have pretty much every image I've ever created stored on a hdd on another PC - about 10 gigabytes worth in fact! (and all of the .flame parameters to go with them) It's definitely interesting to walk down memory lane and see how one has evolved over time. There is some truly terrible stuff there, and also quite a few "wow factor" images... lol! I can definitely see a trend towards the styles that I prefer nowadays - and I can see that I'm definitely getting better at getting more detail, and more flowing images... All in all a pretty satisfying endeavour methinks... How many of you fine artists revisit your older works? T.

I have a lot of my older works printed out on photo paper in 15cm x 10 cm size - there once was a special offer in a photo shop nearby. And from time to time I look at them...
But during the choice which images to let print and which not I looked at all of my old works the last time - many of them did not make it on paper. And a lot is ugly stuff in my eyes now.
I think one never should post images just after creating them. Images must ripen...

I have been diggin out the old .fla and .apo files (gotta change the dropdown list from .flame to .fla-.apo to see em) and trying new tricks with them. It's definately eye opening to see what I once saved and thought worthy of a render someday as compared to what I now think is cool. Theres more that didnt make the cut than did.:)

How interesting that you should start this thread, I was only laughing with my husband a few days ago at the old images I created using Apo 1.0, they were indeed very basic but I loved them at the time. My "style" has changed a lot and I agree wholeheartedly with the idea of letting images "ripen" before posting them. I bit like sending a letter to a boyfriend you have fallen out with - write it, read it, save it and then decide whether to send it or not but don't send it in the heat of the moment!! Another analogy is that of clothes and haircuts, let's face it what we thought looked great several years ago looks pretty ghastly (or hilarious) now. Back to Apo, I agree styles change and the program has changed in such a way that it is possible to create images that would have been almost impossible even 12 months ago. When I go home this evening I am going ot have another look into the archive- I have a feel many may end up as trash and a few kept for thew sake of nostalgia like pictures you painted when you were kid at school!!

I am not sure that changes are due to changes in styling but are more derived from the new scriptings and transforms that have been written in the present times that have changed the pictures that Apophysis creates. Naturally the pictures will change but only because the program has changed. Flame pictures in the present could not have been manufactured with not the present scriptings and transforms that the programme writers have create. Avram

hmmm, that's an interesting comment. Changes in style are linked to changes in the software? I'm not sure if I agree or disagree with that. If we are talking about Apophysis... I'll shut up ;)

My style has changed too and some of it is linked to the software, but most of it is because of a change in taste. It's strange, at the time, 4 or 5 years ago, I thought that I was building amazing fractal art. When I look at it now, I'm not too impressed. I wonder what I'll think 4 or 5 years from now?

Keith

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Funnily enough - I don't tend to use many of the newer variations available in the more recent versions of Apophysis. I mainly stick with my faves from the original set - they give me the results that I prefer with a lot more regularity - and are more easily applied by others who may not use the most recent version of Apophysis if I share any of my .flame files... I agree with the changing of tastes... mine certainly have changed since I first started working with Apophysis. This could be also related to becoming more familiar with the application, and utilising some of the new enhancements to the program that make editing flames a whole heck of a lot faster and cleaner (for me anyways) T.

Most of my UF images I don't like any longer are "quick shots" - be it older stuff or relatively new one.
And most of my UF images I like - even very old ones - are those that I spent a lot of time with or re-designed them one or more times...
Changing of taste - very soon I learned that I like textures. And textures developped slowly in UF. Therefore more of the newer images of mine have textures, and more of the newer images belong to those that I still like very much.

Yeah, I like to sometimes go back and see where I came from with UF. But I reckon my main reason for keeping the old ones in my gallery is because I'm just a sentimental old wuss and they're like old friends you can't seem to let go of. I've weeded out a few, here and there, but only a few. I'm like Keith in that many of them don't do much for me now. There's one more I've thought of deleting a lot but it just gives me that sad, puppy dog look and I leave it there - lol. Gotta go look and see if the "pile of poop" comment is still there one day and, if not, then out it goes. Or maybe not. :-?) Rick

:-)

Most of my old images are still on public show on my FortuneCity site. I probably should get rid of it, but I kinda like the contrast, all the images there are single layer (or at most 1.5 layer using lighting) produced with MMFrac, a program I was quite proud of until I started using UF :-)