here I tried combining static and non-static elements.
the background was just purple crepe paper and I moved it randomly during the scan.
i realise why it seemed that the colour was a bit more ‘glowing’ during class presentation. it was because of the difference in colour scheme on d display screen and what comes out in print. but i tried on a different printer and it looks albeit more similar to the one on screen. so my verdict was that the previous printer was just running out of ink i guess. hee.
self-assessment: i’ll rate myself 7/10 because I had to experiment with a couple of transluscent and semi transluscent objects to get the effect I want. But i just decided on using a solid-coloured object and to just take advantage of the scanning process.
I’m rating Jialin’s as the best one in the tutorial, giving her a 9/10 as she manages to portray that element of flux very well indeed. not something abstract I would say, but just artistic. =)
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one helpful tip is that you shouldn’t think of a scanner as it is.
think of it as a working canvas and maybe, working backwards would help. =)
what I mean is that the final image should already be in our heads, and so whatever objects put on the scanner bed should be like what we have already envisioned. (since we’re only allowed minimal photo editing like cropping of pix and colour correction.)
so what I did first was to experiment with the scanner cover. yes, that makes a whole lot of difference if you want a white, or a dark/black background. sometimes it is this that adds the contrast to your overall end product.
i suppose using simple items for this assignment helps too. just like this pic below, i used beads from a flower pot:
and then I realised that using semi-translucent objects would create a nice effect and so I experimented with my glass flowers too:
did it on white background with the cover closed first but then it doesn’t really work since it’s a 3D object and so whatever uncovered areas turned into semi-white/grey blotches. not a really nice picture there. hee.
I really liked that whole glowy effect that glass objects give out. but it seems a bit faded into the background though.
so I decided to mix the beads with other flowers made from cloth.
turns out that the roses had something like a hologram effect, as though they were made of translucent material as well. but they’re really not.
here’s another one with a tulip inside instead n edited the brightness and contrast:
all in all, it was interesting to learn the kind of effects even simple scanners can do. it’s pretty much the same if we were to take photographs with normal cameras. we’d still have to think about the field of image and its contrast.
