Using Photoshop to enhance physiograms

"Barry Pearson" wrote in message

More than 40 years ago, while still at school, I took some physiograms with a
moving camera as well as a moving light. I had some of them published a couple
of times.

http://www.barry.pearson.name/photography/portfolios/physiog rams0.htm
Now I have scanned them in, and used various Photoshop effects to enhance them.

http://www.barry.pearson.name/photography/portfolios/physiog rams.htm
I have uploaded some articles on how they were produced, and the theory behind
them.

http://www.barry.pearson.name/articles/physiograms/

Comments?

Barry, the originals stand well enough on their own as pure works demonstrating the principles. The enhanced (colored, beveled, glowed, etc) just mess them up and, besides, rather ‘flatten’ them, obscuring the possibility to show a third dimension.

I like both the originals and the processed versions would make great wallpapers
Alasdair

www.digitalmystic.co.uk

"Barry Pearson" wrote in message

More than 40 years ago, while still at school, I took some physiograms with a
moving camera as well as a moving light. I had some of them published a couple
of times.

http://www.barry.pearson.name/photography/portfolios/physiog rams0.htm
Now I have scanned them in, and used various Photoshop effects to enhance them.

http://www.barry.pearson.name/photography/portfolios/physiog rams.htm
I have uploaded some articles on how they were produced, and the theory behind
them.

http://www.barry.pearson.name/articles/physiograms/

Comments?

(I am currently writing extra material on how to enhance images like this).

—
Barry Pearson
http://www.Barry.Pearson.name/photography/
http://www.BirdsAndAnimals.info/

jjs wrote:

"Barry Pearson" wrote in message

More than 40 years ago, while still at school, I took some physiograms with a
moving camera as well as a moving light. I had some of them published a couple of times.

http://www.barry.pearson.name/photography/portfolios/physiog rams0.htm

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http://www.barry.pearson.name/photography/portfolios/physiog rams.htm

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http://www.barry.pearson.name/articles/physiograms/

Comments?

Barry, the originals stand well enough on their own as pure works demonstrating the principles. The enhanced (colored, beveled, glowed, etc) just mess them up and, besides, rather ‘flatten’ them, obscuring the possibility to show a third dimension.

In three and a half years of using Photoshop, I think this was my first attempt to use special effects filters! (Except for the occasional GIF). I normally do "straight" photography, and the only filters I normally use are "unsharp mask" and sometimes "gaussian blur". (I’m the person who produces PowerPoint slide presentations without special effects while everyone around me has fancy colours & tricky transitions, etc!)

My own feeling is that the processed versions are a mixed-bag. There are a few I really like, and I wonder what I can use them for! Others leave me with the feeling "so what?" I think some are simply "over processed", and often simplicity is better. I’m continuing to play, to see if I can develop any skills that may come in useful. And I must admit I had fun doing them, which is the main thing.

I’ve just done a couple more, but this time with "Painter Classic" which came free with something. I quite like the effects:

http://www.barry.pearson.name/photography/pictures/special/p hys_99_01p_3.htm

http://www.barry.pearson.name/photography/pictures/special/p hys_99_32p_3.htm

I’ll give some thought to that "third dimension", and see if I can emphasise it. Thanks.

—
Barry Pearson
http://www.Barry.Pearson.name/photography/
http://www.BirdsAndAnimals.info/

Alasdair wrote:

I like both the originals and the processed versions would make great wallpapers

Hm! Now that sounds like something I should follow up!

(The wildest idea I’d had so far was to print and frame them and give them to long-suffering people as presents!)

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"Barry Pearson" wrote in message

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http://www.barry.pearson.name/photography/portfolios/physiog rams0.htm

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http://www.barry.pearson.name/photography/portfolios/physiog rams.htm

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http://www.barry.pearson.name/articles/physiograms/

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—
Barry Pearson
http://www.Barry.Pearson.name/photography/
http://www.BirdsAndAnimals.info/

"Barry Pearson" …

More than 40 years ago, while still at school, I took some physiograms with a moving camera as well as a moving light. I had some of them published a couple of times.

http://www.barry.pearson.name/photography/portfolios/physiog rams0.htm
Now I have scanned them in, and used various Photoshop effects to enhance them.

http://www.barry.pearson.name/photography/portfolios/physiog rams.htm
I have uploaded some articles on how they were produced, and the theory behind them.

http://www.barry.pearson.name/articles/physiograms/

Comments?

(I am currently writing extra material on how to enhance images like this).

Barry,

maybe the work of the German photographer Heidersberger is interesting in this context:
http://www.kulturserver.de/home/h-heidersberger/

He had made "Rhythmogramme" in the early sixties of the last century.

The name "Physiogram" is strange – probably we have in either case complex mechanical oscillations. Personally I wouldn´t "enhance" the graphics. That´s like adding drop shadows to improve image quality.

Best regards –Gernot Hoffmann

"Gernot Hoffmann" wrote in message

maybe the work of the German photographer Heidersberger is interesting in this context:
http://www.kulturserver.de/home/h-heidersberger/

He had made "Rhythmogramme" in the early sixties of the last century.

Most excellent. Thanks for that.

Gernot Hoffmann wrote:

"Barry Pearson" wrote in message
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More than 40 years ago, while still at school, I took some physiograms with a moving camera as well as a moving light. I had some of them published a couple of times.
http://www.barry.pearson.name/photography/portfolios/physiog rams0.htm

[snip]

http://www.barry.pearson.name/photography/portfolios/physiog rams.htm

[snip]

http://www.barry.pearson.name/articles/physiograms/

[snip]

Barry,

maybe the work of the German photographer Heidersberger is interesting in this context:
http://www.kulturserver.de/home/h-heidersberger/

He had made "Rhythmogramme" in the early sixties of the last century.

Good reference, thanks. I’ve added links to those pages to my main article. (I did those physiograms in 1963/4).

The name "Physiogram" is strange – probably we have in either case complex mechanical oscillations. Personally I wouldn

jjs wrote:

"Gernot Hoffmann" wrote in message

maybe the work of the German photographer Heidersberger is interesting in this context:
http://www.kulturserver.de/home/h-heidersberger/

He had made "Rhythmogramme" in the early sixties of the last century.

Most excellent. Thanks for that.

Have a look at this:
http://www.heidersberger.de/heinrich/rhythmogramme_inhalt.ht ml

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hei dersberger.de%2Fheinrich%2Frhythmogramme_inhalt.html&lan gpair=de%7Cen

—
Barry Pearson
http://www.Barry.Pearson.name/photography/
http://www.BirdsAndAnimals.info/

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:56:31 GMT, "Barry Pearson" wrote:

I’ve just done a couple more, but this time with "Painter Classic" which came free with something. I quite like the effects:

http://www.barry.pearson.name/photography/pictures/special/p hys_99_01p_3.htm
http://www.barry.pearson.name/photography/pictures/special/p hys_99_32p_3.htm
I’ll give some thought to that "third dimension", and see if I can emphasise it. Thanks.

Interesting images. Remind me of nuclei of complex compounds 🙂

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Hecate – The Real One

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