Building
Back when I used to work in the darkroom, I was working on a series of images I called Memories of Dreams, using an extremely manipulative technique that involved putting a piece of notebook paper over the photo paper, and high contrast filters, and very long exposures.
When I started printing my photos digitally, that technique wasn't possible any more, at least not exactly as I had been doing it. I've fussed with different techniques over the years to try to replicate that look, and although it's not really exactly the same, I like my latest version of the technique enough to start posting samples. Some of them work better than others, some work a little worse, but there's something I like about all of them.
It's going to take me a while to work through this idea, so be forewarned... it's going to be dark and odd around here for a couple of weeks.
Laura Z, on Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 7:07 AM:
Well, whatever you did here, the effect to me looks cool! This building here looks like an up-close shot of a model or a doll's house (you know, the way buildings look in those old Godzilla movies). This may not have been the effect you were going for, but I think it's interesting on can manipulate the real to look so artificial and vice-versa.