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11/18/2014 11:23:11 AM · #1 |
| Magical forest creatures by Elido Turco. |
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11/18/2014 12:39:22 PM · #2 |
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11/18/2014 01:04:34 PM · #3 |
Oh, I recognize this effect, I do it myself--not a mirror in the traditional sense. Mirrored in photoshop. After mirroring some of them have been rotated so that the mirroring axis in not vertical. There is a big folder of these amusing faces at his Flickr page.
I tend to the more abstract--
Message edited by author 2014-11-18 13:08:07. |
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11/18/2014 01:46:55 PM · #4 |
| The advantage of doing it with a mirror, of course, would be that you can actually frame it up on-site and SEE the faces, sometimes they are hard to previsualize otherwise. Cool work, very... |
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11/18/2014 03:10:55 PM · #5 |
I understand the principal but not sure on the practical approach.
1. Is the mirror held by a stand or by hand?
2. Since some objects do not have a smooth surface, how do you achieve a nice clean/symmetrical reflection?
Could someone please post an image showing an example of taking the photo with a mirror. Thanks. |
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11/18/2014 03:14:10 PM · #6 |
I prefer creatures by water:  |
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11/18/2014 03:33:40 PM · #7 |
what tnun said, although his example is far more elegant
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11/18/2014 03:39:42 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by hiltonmd:
I understand the principal but not sure on the practical approach.
1. Is the mirror held by a stand or by hand?
2. Since some objects do not have a smooth surface, how do you achieve a nice clean/symmetrical reflection?
Could someone please post an image showing an example of taking the photo with a mirror. Thanks. |
Well, I've never done it like that... I have photographed very large sheets of mirrored glass in a wilderness environment for a glass manufacturer, but...
Now that you mention it, I don't even BELIEVE those images were shot with physical mirrors :-( Perhaps the person who wrote the article just mistranslated what the photographer had said about his wok? I believe they probably ARE mirrored in Photoshop... |
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11/18/2014 03:43:50 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
[quote=hiltonmd]. . .
Now that you mention it, I don't even BELIEVE those images were shot with physical mirrors :-( Perhaps the person who wrote the article just mistranslated what the photographer had said about his wok? I believe they probably ARE mirrored in Photoshop... |
But I do like your idea that taking a mirror out might show you the potential of something . . . I can't even figure out what was "mirrored" in PS in most of the portrait work :( - and the :) is for me, not for his work or the explanation of it |
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11/18/2014 03:45:50 PM · #10 |
Right, I just googled him up:
"Using the simple reflection feature in Photoshop, Italian photographer Elido Turco creates tree creatures with a variety of emotion and expression. From cute and friendly, to scary and wise, his creations look like beings from another planet."
Message edited by author 2014-11-18 15:46:26. |
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11/18/2014 03:53:14 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by nam:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
[quote=hiltonmd]. . .
Now that you mention it, I don't even BELIEVE those images were shot with physical mirrors :-( Perhaps the person who wrote the article just mistranslated what the photographer had said about his wok? I believe they probably ARE mirrored in Photoshop... |
But I do like your idea that taking a mirror out might show you the potential of something . . . I can't even figure out what was "mirrored" in PS in most of the portrait work :( - and the :) is for me, not for his work or the explanation of it |
Thanks...that makes sense. |
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11/18/2014 03:56:41 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Right, I just googled him up:
"Using the simple reflection feature in Photoshop, Italian photographer Elido Turco creates tree creatures with a variety of emotion and expression. From cute and friendly, to scary and wise, his creations look like beings from another planet." |
Well, that was both enlightening and disappointing... |
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11/18/2014 05:48:22 PM · #13 |
| Funny how often our perception of HOW it was made colors our perception of its VALUE; and I'm as guilty of it as anyone. Honestly, why should we CARE? As far as art goes, isn't the end product all that matters? |
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11/18/2014 06:47:41 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Funny how often our perception of HOW it was made colors our perception of its VALUE; and I'm as guilty of it as anyone. Honestly, why should we CARE? As far as art goes, isn't the end product all that matters? |
IMO, knowing it was done in post takes very little away for me... While I admire the tenacity of those who insist on doing it in-camera, it is art, and the process is less important than the end product. |
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11/18/2014 07:19:51 PM · #15 |
| It shouldn't. And in reality it doesn't. I just liked the romantic vision of him schlepping a mirror through the woods :) |
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11/19/2014 12:57:43 AM · #16 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Funny how often our perception of HOW it was made colors our perception of its VALUE; and I'm as guilty of it as anyone. Honestly, why should we CARE? As far as art goes, isn't the end product all that matters? |
IMO, knowing it was done in post takes very little away for me... While I admire the tenacity of those who insist on doing it in-camera, it is art, and the process is less important than the end product. |
My thoughts exactly.
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11/19/2014 01:35:29 AM · #17 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Funny how often our perception of HOW it was made colors our perception of its VALUE; and I'm as guilty of it as anyone. Honestly, why should we CARE? As far as art goes, isn't the end product all that matters? |
IMO, knowing it was done in post takes very little away for me... While I admire the tenacity of those who insist on doing it in-camera, it is art, and the process is less important than the end product. |
With respect...except for one thing. Any artist can tell you it's all about the process. The product is what's left when the artist is finished with the process. For some photographer/artists, the process begins with the taking of the photograph, for others the process ends with the taking of the photograph. It's all good. I am aware that the majority opinion here is that the process should end with the taking of the photograph. A process that begins with the photograph is regarded as trickery, compensating for a lack of photographic skill, cheating, fantasizing, cartooning, photochopping,etc. I do wish it wasn't so. I wish it was possible to allow each photographer/artist to be absorbed in whatever process feels right, without suffering the adverse judgement of those whose process is different. I haven't seen any flying pigs recently,though. |
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11/19/2014 12:49:12 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Funny how often our perception of HOW it was made colors our perception of its VALUE; and I'm as guilty of it as anyone. Honestly, why should we CARE? As far as art goes, isn't the end product all that matters? |
IMO, knowing it was done in post takes very little away for me... While I admire the tenacity of those who insist on doing it in-camera, it is art, and the process is less important than the end product. |
So if it was the most beautiful photograph of a rare bird in the world, but in the process of making the photograph, the bird was made extinct, that wouldn't matter?
Or to stick to photographic processes, what if the printing process used highly toxic chemicals, that were handled by poor 8 year-olds without any protective gear?
Process does matter.
Message edited by author 2014-11-19 12:51:46. |
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