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As requested, samples of my bizarre photo work.
These are test studies for a major
project. For commercial reasons I cannot show you the full project. My objective is to produce illusions and impossible perspectives of the kind associated with M. C. Escher,
but photographically.
All my images are made the same way. I create a "matrix" in CorelDRAW according to strict rules of perspective, except for the false
connections. This is then brought into Photo-Paint where it is "rendered" with purpose-taken, digitally photographed textures and objects. A print-out of the matrix is
used as a reference guide during photography to help ensure that the objects are photographed with the correct point of view to fit.
In "POOL," the pool
was created entirely in CorelDRAW. The surrounding textures and objects were added in Photo-Paint. As it is a very simple image it required only about twenty photographs
to be made. The objects are photographed in flat light and shadows, and lighting is added to them in Photo-Paint by image adjustments through masks to give the whole a
unified direction of lighting.
In "TERRACE," a wireframe matrix of the terrace was created in CorelDRAW and then similarly textured. The balustrade and corner
posts were extruded in CorelDRAW, and the circular balusters created in CorelDREAM. They were ported into Photo-Paint with only basic colour render, and textured and
"distressed" in Photo-Paint. This was a little more complicated and required in the region of sixty purpose taken photographs.
I have had to downsample and
JPEG-compress to get a reasonable file size. Definition and colour depth have suffered -- but not enough to spoil the general feel.
The major work for which these
are "sketches" is a two-foot square board game which contains no less than twenty two of these illusions and impossibilities in a single image. It required over six
hundred photographs which were used to create in excess of two thousand objects. Quite a lot of work! <g>
By the way, these studies are copyrighted.
They are for your private interest only. I don't want to be childish and burn "copyright" into them, so please respect this. Keep them for your enjoyment but no other use
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