Forum: Photography

Subject: Does the hand-challenge need to be a real photo?

gunsan opened this issue on Jan 17, 2002 ยท 9 posts

gunsan posted Thu, 17 January 2002 at 2:07 PM

For this image I scanned my hand and played a bit with an eyeball. I just want to know in which category scanned image fall.

doruksal posted Thu, 17 January 2002 at 2:59 PM

This was once talked about, and the idea of "scanner as a photographical image generator" was approved generaly as far as I can remember. I think a scanner is a pretty much effective device to generate "photography"...perhaps with certain limitations... I'm also working on a few scanned images of my hands, but I must admit that your render on your scanned hand is just beautiful... Sorry, I'm not sure whether I understand your concept for the whole image, and this and the fact that the eyeball and the hand are visualy so seperate from each other forces me to omit the eyeball for the whole and consider the hand... You may create a strong serial with hand scans rendered as such or alike... Let me share one particular image of mine, a simple scan of a broken and complex type lightbulb... ...After this...

doruksal posted Thu, 17 January 2002 at 3:00 PM

That broken lightbulb is scanned with a transparency adapter providing the back lighting... IMHO, a scanner is a many splendoured thing..!

bsteph2069 posted Thu, 17 January 2002 at 3:48 PM

I thought the hand was kinda blury. But the eyeball. MMMMMMMMM. Beautiful! Stuff. Also the lightbulb is incredible. Reminds me of Hyperrealistic paintings. Bsteph

gunsan posted Thu, 17 January 2002 at 4:14 PM

I had actually not any special concept for the hand-eyeball image. I just made it to ask the question about scanning and the hand challenge. I have never scanned anything "living" other than my cats tail before, but this was fun. Your lightbulb is amazing Doruk!

PunkClown posted Thu, 17 January 2002 at 4:45 PM

LOL! I think your first image definitely falls in the "surrealistic scan" category, and I also recall scanners being approved as an acceptable image capturing device? Alpha/Syyd?...Doruk's scanned image is so crisp, what scanner are you using? My Canon scanner has very limited DOF.... :-(>

doruksal posted Fri, 18 January 2002 at 12:14 AM

A clumsy "Mustek - ScanExpress 12000P"... Too slow in scanning, and not good for scanning transparencies. I think HP scanners are quite well as they are very fast even at high dpi values and also good at image quality...

PunkClown posted Fri, 18 January 2002 at 4:24 PM

Don't you love marketing Doruk? They call it the "ScanExpress" and it's slow! LOL, still you get great images from it! The Canon seems to have a DOF of about 2mm before everything goes blurry beyond recognition...maybe I'm doing it wrong! Thanks, Doruk.

Slynky posted Fri, 18 January 2002 at 5:31 PM

so long as the image wasn't created in a 3d program, it counts. Even painting to a certain extent is acceptable, just no 3d.