"Keith (R.K.) Berry" wrote:
> Nowadays I don't throw any away. There have been several examples in Digital
> FX magazine of people who have scanned up to six elements from unrelated
> photographs to combine them in a single manipulated outstanding image.
This is a new approach that I have also started to apply to my results.
Prior to the "computer age", I have always considered a hit rate of 20%
out of a film to be incredibly good and would be totally satisfied to
have one real winner in a film. I have been known, in the past, to
consume film at a rate of up to 500 frames a day when working at it and
the really creatively successful ones (that I was prepared to consider
winners) would number in the less than 50 bracket. Not that I punch out
exposures hoping that I will get one among the many, but I get really
fussy about the ones that make it into the "presentation grade" album.
> I realise it's not photography as we know it - cheating even, but I see it
> as a separate hobby and a new skill to acquire. If it makes use of otherwise
> scrap photos, so much the better.
I agree with Keith here. Since I have started to use computers over the
last twenty years, particularly lately to scan and modify photo's, I see
great potential for the use of parts of otherwise bad images in a
composite digitally produced photograph. You can now go out and shoot
skies to stash away for that special shot that needs a great big, fluffy
cloud behind the tree to cap it off. Once, colour photo's were considered
a passing fad and serious photographers would always only ever consider
B&W. It is a new branch of the game which allows us great freedom to
express our little "hidden artist" in another way.
Sorry about the verbose reply :o)
Col
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