I agree that the sage is a marvellous flower..! It would have been impressive to be able to see the flower with the POV of the grasshoppers...

I love and love and love spiders forever and ever and ever......!! Thanks..! :)

Beautiful..!

Subtle scratches and clear grains add too much, and this is almost like a b/w pencil scetch...
...A scetch, yet already complete as an artwork..!

These are beautiful, and I liked the colored one better for sharp green patterns on sharp green patterns and sharp green patterns on black (dark, better to say) background...

BTW, amazing plants, these ferns are..!

My dear Slynky, there really is nothing to forgive, and thanks for the post of negative scans..! :)
I don't know how much does it cost in your whereabouts, but look for it and if you find that it's affordable for you, than make these negatives of yours scanned with a "drum scanner" (or, at least a film scanner) in a local lab where these devices are available...
...You'll surely receive impressive resolution and quality with your scanned negatives, films, etc. : every sweet grain at your service..!

BTW, in the college that you're going to attend (or, have you started attending already..?), I guess it wouldn't be any problem for you to find the chance of using the scanners above (esp. a "drum scanner")...
...Go for it man, and make sure you post more of the results of your adventures with "The SWPC (Slynky's Wreck Pin-hole Cam)"..!

:)

Fantastic adventure..!

First of all, nice to meet you with your face..!

Then, for the pictures...

• I also would like to see how Guppo plugged the fork into the outlet, but the pic showing what happened afterwards is great..!
• The whole "porn sequence" is very funny, esp. with you "investigating" the "crime item" in the end..!
• The b/w street photography of Guppo (esp. the ones at 15, 16, 17, and 21) and the color photographs of Guppo in heroin trips among flora are very beautiful...
• The "first-aid and rescue" sequence is marvellous, and your operative toolkit killed me..! :)
• The "survival celebration" shows us how your very fine acting throughout the adventure reaches the top, and your appliying a coarse pixellation to censore one of the rather obscene porn mags is also amusing..!

Had much fun, thanks..! :))

Your scanner does some interesting effects on the scanned image..! And, I'm quite curious about the results you've achieved with your "wreck pinhole cam"..!

Attached Link: http://www.pbpix.com/index.html

Vast..!!!

My humble personal opinion is that the "still working on" version of this is better (the one you've posted to the gallery is open also, and I'm comparing), as I think that this particular version here is "scratched" and texturised more than necessary...
...Rather distracting perhaps, blocking the beautiful and valuable blurred foliage that is clearly seen in the "still working on" version.
Also, esp. the horizontal and long scratches look rather...regular.

Well, mine is surely just a humble and visual evaluation (as I really am unable to texturise in photoshop), but maybe some other type of "dirtiness", more irregular and less blocking perhaps...

...I think. :)

You know those "luxurious" mirrors which are generally encountered in the lobbies of hotels, in shops, etc., the mirrors which are made up of a number of narrow mirrors arranged as vertical slices..? In my country, you may also see them in barber shops, local fast food cafes, luxurious restaurants, etc. ... I find them rather "kitch", but the effect they make on the reflection resembles just what I'm trying to achieve, and I was definately influenced by those mirrors... My first experiences with this technique were 7-8 years away, and I used to slice two identical pictures with an x-acto knife and a ruler, generally the slices being 1 cm wide and the phase difference being 0.5 cm... ...As you may guess, this whole business was a serious pain in the ass, and was a tough test of patience. Then one day, in the "general news" pages of a photography magazine, I saw a picture that was exactly the result of the same manipulaton that I tried to explain: a high shutter-speed capture of a jockeyed horse hurdling over a barrier, shot directly from the side... ...It was impressive how the technique had given a terrific dynamism back to the freezed action..! I cannot recall whose work it was... Then, over the time, I saw other works or parts of works which were manipulated with this tecnique. So, though I found the technique by myself through self influences, it was and is already a rather known one... Really sorry for all these bla-bla, but couldn't help... :)

A few things more...

• Surely "phase difference" does not necessarily have to be half the width of the "slice frame". For example, with a slice frame that is to be 30 pixels wide, the phase difference doesn't have to be 15 pixels, and it can surely be 10 pixels, etc., depending on the effect that one wants to achieve. The only important thing seems to be that it makes things (framing slices with equal dimensions throughout the image) easier to chose numbers as common multiples and/or common divisors for each other: an image 800 pixels wide, a slice frame 40 pixels wide, a phase difference of 20 pixels (or 10 perhaps), as an example...
• The lesser the phase difference, the longer (thus larger) the resultant image. For example, while keeping the phase difference as "1/2" the width of the slice frame is like merging "2" images into each other in slices, keeping the phase difference as "1/3" the width of the slice frame is like merging "3" images, and so on...

Thanks for the comments..! :)

The technique I'm applying to produce "sliced images" is infact a very simple one: successive copies and pastes...

Let me try to explain how it works...

• Assume that the master image to be sliced is an 800x600 one...
• Though it depends on the image, I found that slices of 30-40 pixels wide are giving the best results. For the virtual image above, as its "x" equals 800, 40 pixels wide slices are appropriate as you can divide 800 by 40 evenly...
• So, I begin selecting my first slice by starting to select at point (0,0), and thus the first selection ends at point (40,600). I copy it and paste it as a new layer on a seperate canvas...
• Then, moving the "selection start" point by x=20 pixels (thus, creating a 20-pixels-wide "phase difference"), I begin selecting the second slice starting at point (20,0), and thus this selection ends at point (60, 600). Then, copy and paste...
• Next selection: (40,0)->(80, 600)...
• So, this iteration goes on like this till the other end of the image...
• Then, on the canvas including the "sliced frames" from the master image, I arrange the slices in line, and then merge them all (flatten)...
• As a summary: for the virtual image described above, I have a virtual frame of 40x600, and starting from the left-most of the picture, I frame a slice of the master image and copy and paste it elsewhere; then I move the frame to right by 20 pixels and copy and paste......

Sorry if it took so long and got complicated, but when using a foreign language, it's quite hard to explain specific things...

Hope it was helpful...

And, dear Crystal, you say that the pic you show us here is a "goof"..?!

If you're trying to say that the result is "only by chance" (hence the "oops"), than understandable...
...But, I find the pic you've post to be a very fine one to show how "imbalanced" pictures can be superbly abstract and dynamic..!

Such results are generally achieved by chance, but working on them and getting lessons would provide a valuable and experimental way of approach to POV and composing, which in turn would provide a valuable technique to one's repertoire...
...I think.

As a personal critique, I would say without hesitating that the images I produce are generally "balanced more than necessary", and I would have liked very much to be able to shoot porposefully imbalanced pictures "knowingly"...

:-)

Very beautiful..!
Several layers of textures, patterns; beautiful light; nice composition...
...What more..?!
I liked how the linear shadows are broken on the window frame and the wall, some also curved on the dents of the outer wall (frame..?). :-)