sculpting with soup

Monday, April 03, 2006

universal soldier

up against the window on a sheet of A1 cartridge paper. the shadow at the back and the one cast by the UJ were the same boring density, so i cheated with layers and selections - brought down the background and increased the foreground.

oh i'm getting fed up with this tools project!

2 comments:

steve said...: Great one Ian! Love the shadow cast here and the shine from the silver. Well composed photo.; Tuesday, 04 April, 2006
Ian russell said...: thanks steve. i wasn't sure it needed the complete shadow. :o/

i did do another but it turned out rather l o n g.; Wednesday, 05 April, 2006

mock turtle

There's a few references to photoshop. I avoided using photoshop in the beginning, it's a moot point whether it's still photography and not merely computer graphics. This idea changed when my friend and pro photographer, Anne, urged me to ''push'' my images to get the best results. Now I feel it's all about the finished image; the end justifies the means. In a way this implies photography has been devalued, and it has, but then no one has been using box cameras and silver nitrate for a while - it's progress. As long as the spirit is alive, it's still photography.

If we had never before looked upon the earth, but suddenly came to it man or woman grown, set down in the midst of a summer mead, would it not seem to us a radiant vision? The hues, the shapes, the song and life of birds, above all the sunlight, the breath of heaven, resting on it; the mind would be filled with its glory unable to grasp it, hardly believing that such things could be mere matter ... too beautiful to be long watched lest it should fade away.
Richard Jefferies, from 'Wild Flowers'

Monday, April 03, 2006

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