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dareme — Scream if you're alive
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Published: 2008-03-23 01:25:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 2200; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 19
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The soul's not in the eyeslike they say
I know better than that
it's in your voice
So scream, if you're alive
Show me that you're there.
Quirky little shot, because I was bored - uploading it because I just notices I wear that same boring look on photos. As there are no eyes in this, no chance to give you that look.
Ha. Sometimes my own smartness amazes me.
Enjoy!
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Haha, thanks! Actually it's just a hood from the short, but it looks like one of those massive retro hats when it's pulled out like this.
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Yeah, it looked really cool. ^^ Great photo.
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i forgot to say... have you tried some sort of lomography postprocess on this one? i suspect it could look interesting...
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Lomography? Whatever is that?
Probably haven't tried - but I'd be interested to find out what it is and how to apply it.
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lomography comes from lomo, a russian camera brand that became popular because the mean quality of their optics yield evident aberrations in color and exposition. this in turn adds some feeling to the images, so more and more people were fascinated by these toy cameras (chinese helga cameras are in this stream too, now) and started considering all that as a real style, and a philosophy (!) was born around it (hence the word lomography - google on it): don't think, just point and shoot.
there's a number of digital tools (photoshop actions, gimp filters) that can mimic the lomo effect. i've read documentation and tutorials on the net and developed a personal way to apply lomography effect to pictures... since i never had a true lomo in my hands i don't know if and how much my pattern matches the original analog result, but i must say that sometimes the result is appealing.
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Oh yeah ... tho, I'm pretty stupid, of course I know what a lomo is!
I just really didn't make the link. And I had no idea how the lomo-camera came to life, so thank you for the background information! I've been thinking of buying a lomo, but I haven't gotten round to it yet. Mainly because I think it'd make more sense to concentrate on my Nikon and buy some new lenses and things for it, rather than invest into a new (analog) camera that will cost a lot for films and development.
I didn't know that people were manipulating digital images to look like lomo-photos either. Wow. I should try that, sounds interesting. Do you know where to get actions/filter that take the image in that direction?
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missing a link sometimes, it doesn't mean one is stupid
afaik lomo cameras are not in production anymore, and the chinese holga filled the hole. a simple holga camera costs about 40 euro around here, i think it's quite a price for a camera that is little more than a box with a hole covered by a transparent plastic. plus, i agree, film & development & print are very expensive on the long run, especially if compared with the little number of valid pics one gets on the overall total of shots. i've managed to use a toy camera lens on my canon. I think i'll invest 5 euro in a body cover to provide a fast and safe way to attach it to the camera. i made some tries with strong paper and wiring tape and it works (somehow). it's fun, but imho it gives nothing so different from what you can achieve with some more post processing on a regular digital shot, and postprocessing is anyway needed (since it's not a lomo lens).
i assume you use photoshop... in this case i cannot help with actions, but i think that google can be your friend. just in case, there is a nice lomo script for the gimp in the fx-foundry collection, which can be downloaded for free from sourceforge.net. anyway i prefer to do everything manually: i have more control over the process. here's a simple pattern you can try for yourself. maybe i'll write a tutorial about it sooner or later...
1) simulate chromatic exaggeration: boost the contrast of red and green channels only
2) simulate lens distortion: create a circular selection centered on the image and whose diameter is 3/4 of the longest side; fetaher the selection of about 15% of the longest side; invert the selection and apply a zoom blur centered on the image
3) simulate overexposure: create a circular gradient ranging from white (center) to black on a new layer and set the layer mode to overlay or multiply. the gradient should be centered in the image and it radius should be about 1/2 of the diagonal
4) simulate vignetting: create a new layer and draw a freehand, irregular-oval-shaped selection just as if you were trying to get and oval image from the original pic; then feather the selection of about 20% of the longest side; invert the selection and fill it with black; then set the layer mode to multiply or overlay and possibly set it opacity to less then 100%
let me know it if works.
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oh, i forgot:
5) on the image layer (or after you've merged down all the layers) apply a "color curves" effect: lower a bit the upper-right extremity of the line, and raise a bit the lower-left extremity: lomo cameras white and black are not pure white and black
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fantastic! you really captured the emotion here
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Thank you!
Thank you for the feature too!
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hehe this is the kind of image i expect to see from you... brilliant, original, well conceived and made. simply fantastic.
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Ha! You flatter me. "Brilliant"?
I loved this shot, but for one fact: I totally screwed up the background. It was the same colour it is now, but the fabric I used to produce is was a crinkled and ugly and just looked wrong. So I cheated this lovely uni-background with a slight texture into here ... but I'm afraid I did a rush job on cutting out my hands. That annoys me every time I look at the photo.
Other than that, I can accept your praise proudly. Thank you!
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i wouldn't say you screwd up the background. obviously it depends on your initial goal, but i think that it fits the image: it adds light. the texture is very well blended, i would have said it was a wall painted in a kinda antique-venetian style. as to regards your hands, i love the asymmetry of this image. the only flaw is maybe (really maybe) your right hand's position: i think that it would look better if it was a bit less slanted backwards. but the most important thing here is the concept and its representation, and you really did a good job.
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Oh, I wanted the colour alright; but the cloth I used was so creased and cast the weirdest shadows that I really was not satisfied.
The artificial (photoshop-)background in this version is much nicer in that regard - but looking back, I wish I'd taken the time to iron that cloth, instead of retouching the image later.
Well, one always learns from mistakes.
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ha, sometime you smartness amazes me too! Nice fun picture
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Hey look ... we have something in common!
Fun is the engine of life, as I'm starting to notice. Stop having fun, and you're dead - even if your body keeps going to work and spends nights in front of the TV. And I'm too young to die, sooo I literally have no choice but to have fun.
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