And now for something completely different (?)

[Elines]

I've previously played with using my scanner to produce images. Now had a more serious attempt - but still 'playing' as not tried various tweaks (not that I yet know what they are!)

Here is the image, followed by some technical info:


- Scanner - bog standard printer/scanner, XP 820, several years old

- Scanner type - this is a cis scanner ie not a ccd one. This means that it has a very narrow depth of field (mms). You can be more flexible in what you photograph with a ccd scanner

- Preparation - cleaned scanner glass (but not the white inside of the lid; I should have done that to save having to remove marks in PS)

- Used 'Preview' to check composition

- Pressed lid down to help make subject flatter (not sure if this helped or not)

- Scanned at 600 dpi in colour. The scan took about two mins.

- Post-processing entirely in PS


if you have ccd scanner you might find this video of interest, but it is now some 5 years old and so (eg) the processing advice may be out of date:

 

[John2]

I can see that on a wall Elines. It's made a nice image.

 

[Elines]

Thanks John, I was pleased with it.

Seems that with scanner photography/scanography, because you can scan at high dpi, you can produce large prints.

And the images are macro ie 1:1

Main downside I see is limitation of subjects, but I suppose you could could argue that that increases the creative challenge.

 

[MonoMania]

Lovely minimalist image.

 

[Elines]

Lovely minimalist image.

Thanks, it has a lot of things I like:

- pleasing composition
- simple
- mainly white to save on ink