abstract illusion 1

[gk fotografie]

(simulated glass blocks - positive + negative image combined - extra yellow/green colored layer mixed between the 2 excisting layers)

 

[smoke665]

Interesting!

 

[gk fotografie]

Interesting!

Thanks, after 57 years of being more than intensively involved in photography, I made a big turn last year from not only collecting glass art but also being active with glass myself, such as making stained glass, painting on glass, fusing etc.
It really is a completely different game than photography, at the end of next week I start a 3-year course at an art academy in Nunspeet NL.
What I've done here with photo editing is something I'd love to do with glass in a few years, but no idea if I'll ever succeed.
By editing (older) photos I try to get new ideas, shapes and especially first drafts to be able to work out further in glass and actually that way I came across a plugin that I found in a free program (PaintNet) that I've had on my computer for years, I think that this glass blocks plugin will certainly also be available for Ps, GIMP etc. I'm currently very busy combining positive with a negative images which gives these nice white lines, I still try to integrate certain old analogue techniques in the digital world in a certain way and sometimes it works out a bit more successfully than other times.

 

[smoke665]

I'm currently very busy combining positive with a negative images

Back in the 70's I was stacking negative and positive images on graphic art film. By slightly shifting the two you could produce a respectable line drawing via a contact print.

 

[gk fotografie]

Back in the 70's I was stacking negative and positive images on graphic art film. By slightly shifting the two you could produce a respectable line drawing via a contact print.

Yes, I know, used to use 4x5"Agfa O81 graphic film in the 70s and 80s , sometimes combined with Agfa N33 film (to produce soft grey tones) both graphic film used as layers together gave astonishing results, in the late 70s I also started printing this kind of graphic sheet film in color, also on Cibachrome. During my photo studies I did an internship with Durch photographer Hans Gotze and he was a phenomenon in the field of graphic effects, Sabbatier effect etc. and not to forget model photography, I've undoubtedly been greatly influenced for the rest of my life by him and for that matter I should not forget Man Ray, because I have been a huge fan of him since I was a teenager.
It's nice to read about people with the same kind of experiences!

 

[smoke665]

, I know, used to use 4x5"Agfa O81 graphic film in the 70s and 80s

I owned a small publishing company that included three weekly newspapers and a well equipped print shop complete with a darkroom. Back then the newspaper was mocked up on full sheets, then shot on an 18x24 horizontal process camera. The full size negatives where then used to burn full size aluminum plates for the offset press. I spent a lot of enjoyable hours in the evenings experimenting in the darkroom.