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| Reed Zitting from United States | 4 May 2008, 03:41 |
Ellie
Thank you for your inquiry. I read an article in the May issue 2007 of the Smithsonian magazine in which a gentleman named Robert Creamer described a process of using a flatbed scanner to capture images. There are also several examples of his work in the magazine. The process is quite simple. Place objects on the glass of a flatbed scanner and scan them as you would a document except you take the lid off so that you don't crush the objects such as flowers, etc. Mr. Creamer covered the scanner with a black tent but I simply scan at night with the lights off. The result is a black background with the objects scanned in high contrast. Of course I spend a great deal of time cleaning the image up with PhotoShop. There is generally an ample amount of dust and other particles that have to be blacked out. And as you might know, digital manipulation programs allow you to make major changes in the image such as color, contrast, lightness and darkness, etc. but it is all part of getting the image ready for viewing. I have a number of other images on my photoblog that I processed in the same manner - see the rose hip postings. I'm using an old scanner that I bought about 10 years ago so this process isn't a product of new technology but it would be difficult to produce images like these without a program like PhotoShop. Hope this answers your question and please let me know if you try this process or have other questions. I've had a lot of fun with it.
Reed
Thank you for your inquiry. I read an article in the May issue 2007 of the Smithsonian magazine in which a gentleman named Robert Creamer described a process of using a flatbed scanner to capture images. There are also several examples of his work in the magazine. The process is quite simple. Place objects on the glass of a flatbed scanner and scan them as you would a document except you take the lid off so that you don't crush the objects such as flowers, etc. Mr. Creamer covered the scanner with a black tent but I simply scan at night with the lights off. The result is a black background with the objects scanned in high contrast. Of course I spend a great deal of time cleaning the image up with PhotoShop. There is generally an ample amount of dust and other particles that have to be blacked out. And as you might know, digital manipulation programs allow you to make major changes in the image such as color, contrast, lightness and darkness, etc. but it is all part of getting the image ready for viewing. I have a number of other images on my photoblog that I processed in the same manner - see the rose hip postings. I'm using an old scanner that I bought about 10 years ago so this process isn't a product of new technology but it would be difficult to produce images like these without a program like PhotoShop. Hope this answers your question and please let me know if you try this process or have other questions. I've had a lot of fun with it.
Reed
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