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Artemis · May 17, 2005

Okay...well...story is...always see good old Terri post here and I had to give it a try, so shes my inspiration this time.

Simply...I did something very odd in my photography lesson a while ago, and I would like to share the exerperience with you guys.

Firstly, I developed this image in the darkroom from my negative.

Not great I know...but I then scanned the picture, and I edited in photoshop.

I cut out the seegull, and doubled it up many times around the image, and then adding a blueish tint to the entire picture.
I also made the birds bigger and smaller, adding more/less contrast to make them appear at different distances..

Finally, the part that is soo sexy

I inverted the image, so its...in its own sense, a negative, and then I printed it on normal white paper.

Placing this ontop of photographic paper in the darkroom, I managed to make a picture in the darkroom of the photoshoped image, and this, my beautiful photo forum people, is the result.

I thank you all for reading, and I prey for comments.

I bid you adue...

bouncing_around · May 17, 2005

Wow! Attack of the birds! It looks almost lifelike!

terri · May 17, 2005

I'm proud to be your inspiration, Arty.... :thumbup:

I must admire your end result here. Totally surreal, so you know I'm all over that.

So - this final image is on darkroom paper...? I would love to have watched your process here! I'll forgive the PS since you ended up back in the darkroom and the results are so cool. :mrgreen:

Great work, very imaginative.

Artemis · May 18, 2005

terri said:
I'm proud to be your inspiration, Arty.... :thumbup:

I must admire your end result here. Totally surreal, so you know I'm all over that. So - this final image is on darkroom paper...? I would love to have watched your process here! I'll forgive the PS since you ended up back in the darkroom and the results are so cool. :mrgreen:

Great work, very imaginative.

Thanks hehe, and its soooo easy to do, if you want ill talk you through it, but if I can do it terri, theres no doubt you can

terri · May 18, 2005

meh.

Playing around in PS isn't really my cup of tea, but I can sure appreciate it when others do good work with that program. I hope you find some more stuff like and post it for us!

Big Mike · May 18, 2005

Interesting process...very imaginative. Nice work.

sillyphaunt · May 18, 2005

That's amazing! i would never have thought of that.. I'd be interested to see more!

Artemis · May 18, 2005

once I finish my exam I may play around with this technique some more, its...fun

ferny · May 18, 2005

That is seriously freaky. It's got some eerie and unnerving effect going on there. :shock: :crazy:

Artemis · May 18, 2005

LOL...didnt expect that kinda response..? the merging of the two opposites? guess that is freaky..

ksmattfish · May 19, 2005

sillyphaunt said:
I'd be interested to see more!

Me too! I think you are on to something here. Explore it further.

Artemis · May 20, 2005

ksmattfish said:
Me too! I think you are on to something here. Explore it further.

When I get my own darkroom up and running I will!

GrAsS · Jun 21, 2005

dont know why but this image makes me think about a propaganda poster for the allies where you see a whole heap of them bombers, this looks so much like that poster, only here its seagulls

Artemis · Jun 22, 2005

GrAsS said:
dont know why but this image makes me think about a propaganda poster for the allies where you see a whole heap of them bombers, this looks so much like that poster, only here its seagulls

Ill take that as a compliment