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From: RolandRB on 5 Apr 2010 02:27
Let's say you want to enjoy your photography skills and show off the
detail you get from your MF images by putting the photo onto canvas
and hanging it from the wall like you had bought an original painting.
Would you get bored with it in a short time and prefer to give space
to a lesser photo taken by someone else? I am wondering if this has
happened to any of the MF photographers here. Maybe the photograph
could be disguised by turning it into more of an oil painting style
but I think that is more difficult than it sounds. Oil paintings do
not have out of focus areas and bokeh so how would you convert a
fairly detailed photo to a painting style and what tricks would you
use the deemphasize the more distant and less important areas while
avoiding a blurred effect?
From: stephe_k on 6 Apr 2010 00:12
RolandRB wrote:
> Let's say you want to enjoy your photography skills and show off the
> detail you get from your MF images by putting the photo onto canvas
> and hanging it from the wall like you had bought an original painting.
> Would you get bored with it in a short time and prefer to give space
> to a lesser photo taken by someone else? I am wondering if this has
> happened to any of the MF photographers here.

I don't have too many of my own photographs hanging in my house and the
ones I do have mostly 8X10's. I think I have maybe 4 and all are printed
as photographs. I've seen those "trying to look like a painting" things
and IMHO those are right there with a velvet elvis painting. While I've
seen some really cool "digital enhanced images" I liked, the 'looks like
a painting' thing isn't one of them.

One of the coolest things I have seen lately is the work by Robert
Weingarten "The portrait unbound". His goal is to produce a portrait of
someone but without them being in the image.

http://www.high.org/main.taf?p=3,1,1,18,1

Stephanie
From: RolandRB on 6 Apr 2010 03:16
On Apr 6, 6:12 am, "steph...(a)yahoo.com" <steph...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> RolandRB wrote:
> > Let's say you want to enjoy your photography skills and show off the
> > detail you get from your MF images by putting the photo onto canvas
> > and hanging it from the wall like you had bought an original painting.
> > Would you get bored with it in a short time and prefer to give space
> > to a lesser photo taken by someone else? I am wondering if this has
> > happened to any of the MF photographers here.
>
> I don't have too many of my own photographs hanging in my house and the
> ones I do have mostly 8X10's. I think I have maybe 4 and all are printed
> as photographs. I've seen those "trying to look like a painting" things
> and IMHO those are right there with a velvet elvis painting. While I've
> seen some really cool "digital enhanced images" I liked, the 'looks like
> a painting' thing isn't one of them.
>
> One of the coolest things I have seen lately is the work by Robert
> Weingarten "The portrait unbound". His goal is to produce a portrait of
> someone but without them being in the image.
>
> http://www.high.org/main.taf?p=3,1,1,18,1
>
> Stephanie

What prompted this was some photographs of the Basel carnival I took.
I would prefer it in the form of an oil painting to hang on the wall
but keeping it strictly accurate so that what you are seeing is not
the artists impression but rather the real thing. I would get bored
with just the photo but for me as a painting it is more of a keepsake
and reminder of Basel. But I appreciate that although you can have out
of focus areas in photographs, it would look out of place in a
painting. I have photos with good depth of field but I would want to
deemphasize the parts that in a photograph you would show as out of
focus. I want somehow to keep the outlines as they are but rob it of
detail such that a face the other side of the street could be served
by a pink smear. I am wondering if it is possible to reduce the image
size of these areas and then expand them back again so that the
outlines are there but the contents robbed of detail and then put it
through a painting effect routine so that these areas become almost
impressionist while the detail that matters is more like a photograph
or a painting with too much realism.
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