Showing posts with label photos that i like. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photos that i like. Show all posts

Monday, February 13, 2012

sergei mikhailovich prokudin-gorski

Here is a picture by this illustrious pioneer in color photography:

Notice the combination of three different pictures taken through three different colored photographic filters to achieve the color. Each small movement in either the camera or the subjects would create a "ghost" image in a bright color around the true image. In addition, the slight tilts of the camera allowed the overlay to have some slight irregularities, and create even further "ghost" images. The movement of the children, and the ghost images produced by such movement, show the passage of time in these photographs.

I attempted to imitate this photographic technique by taking three successive photographs of the same subject, then combining their different channels into one picture. This is basically the digital counterpart of G-n. Prokudin-Gorski's analog technique from a century ago.

My attempt is here:

Once again, the different "ghosted" images provide a sense of the passage of time. In addition, the grass continues to retain a semblance of its original coloration. Although I had cropped this image, if the picture had remained uncropped, it would have shown the characteristic colorful borders created by the different overlaps of overlay.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Iris

The retinas seem almost like sand. When one zooms in past a normal view of what one normally sees, a great deal of beautiful detail is revealed. Such is life: smooth and bland from far away, but filled with beautiful veins of color and texture up close.

The eye is considered a "window to the soul" in many cultures. I myself would get lost in the beauty of the panes of this window and lose my original purpose.
The only criticism to this picture is that although the exposure is great, the subject matter is captivating, and the level of detail is wonderful, much of the detail is lost by a lack of focus.

In addition, the many different shades of yellow and blue in the composition are quite lovely.

Photo taken by frostnova 
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