Mon 1 May 2006
PhotoArtCanvas - pre-production samples
Posted by John under Photoshop , Business , Creativity , Digital Art , Art , PhotographyA Series of Articles About the Development of a Photography Business
- continued
Since posting the introduction to this series, I’ve been busy completing a detailed configuration and design for the PhotoArtCanvas website. Part of that effort has involved actually producing some fully finished products - completed, full-size and mounted prints - such that photography of these can be completed for an online gallery and catalog. Below I’ve included samples from this pre-production exercise, allowing directly for “before-and after” comparisons. Lady before gentleman.
Actually the two renderings demonstrate the same overall principle - to emphasize the subject (or some special feature of the subject), whilst reducing any detail which might be distracting or competing, all without discarding the photographic origin of the image. With portraits (in particular) it’s often the case that quite subtle shifts in tonal make-up can represent a substantial redefinition of the subject. Certainly, in a large majority of cases, there’s no need to wander off into making the image look “painterly” in order to make it visually more engaging. More samples to follow in due course.
May 10th, 2006 at 11:18 am
[…] Since I started out with the detailed planning of my own product line for PhotoArtCanvas, which you may read about in earlier posts here, the O’Reilly computer book juggernaut has published what amounts to a set of three titles which cover the photographic-based art portion of my own interests. They are easy to find online at this link - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/photophotofx/ - being the three “recipe” books with the blue and green covers pictured there, authored by Messrs. Beardsworth and Shelbourne and published in the U.S. between November 2005 and March of this year. […]
June 17th, 2006 at 7:51 am
[…] I’m considering offering restoration as one of the services provided commercially by PhotoArtCanvas. This itself is another (also a related) Photoshop application that many will be familiar with. For example, here is an unretouched scan of a studio portrait print […]