Ok so here is a piece of work I have been "tweaking" for quite some time now. I think I started it before school was out.
It was done using one of my own photos, taken at the Renaissance Festival last fall. It is altered using a technique called a "fake tilt-shift". The goal is to take a regular image and through the use of masks and filters in Photoshop, try to make the image look REALLY 3-D.
This was a fun image to work with, but probably more complicated than it should have been for a first try. I don't know why I tend to make choices like that. :-/ But overall, I am pretty pleased with the outcome for a first piece. It is meant to have a kind of fairytale effect, which is why I think I zeroed in on this particular subject matter.
There are lens for a regular 35mm camera that do something similar to this on the negative while the picture is being taken, but if it is done using Photoshop then it seems the artist would have more specific control over where and how the details are altered.
I will probably try it again using some subject matter that is entirely different. I am still working through the reasoning in my head for which parts are blurred and which are crisp. I suspect that is negotiated depending on the subject matter, or the message of the print, or both.
Like any other method of creating I'm sure a good deal of how the choices are made are really a reflection of one's personal artistic voice. And as always, figuring that out takes time.
So I'm counting this as one of my summer pieces. :-}
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If you click on the image to bring it up in the screen you'll notice it's really large because it's a very high resolution image. To get the true effect back away from the screen as you view it. That will make it look more like it's intended to be seen.
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