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Lens: Photo Stack #8

Mon, 8 Dec 2008 00:37:17 -0600

Back at it again, this time taking photos of and through a 4 inch glass paperweight. Again it’s a photo stack, but there is also a stack of plant photos holding down the background.

New Dingbat Font - Glitch Bats 1

Sun, 18 May 2008 00:18:47 -0500

Fontshop has a new web based font maker called Fontstruct. Once upon a time I created a couple of pixel based fonts named BitBit and BitBit 2, which were pretty cool, but only worked at 8pt. Fontstruct outputs happy vector-based True Type fonts! So they’re great for storing garbage pixels that will resize and are tweakable in outline mode.

Glitch Bats 1 is free to download (8k .zip) Use it for all your glitching needs.

Blue Chair: Photo Stack #7

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:10:30 -0500

It’s a blue chair. A lot of blue chair as it turns out. 42 photos as it turns out. For this stack, I really tried to work within a specific color palette, which is harder than you would think. But as any layer was only 8-10% transparent, colors only build up strength in areas of consistent overlap.

dispattern

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:38:54 -0500

Now I’m starting to play with breaking patterns and displacement maps. It’s getting away from giant stacks of 30 or 40 images and back to 4-8 layers. Of course, each layer has it’s own alpha channel and set of adjustment layers. And I really can’t resist getting in there with a paint brush to modify colors.

Leaf: Photo Stack #6

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:20:10 -0500

The gray vinyl background in these shots really bothered me, so I masked it out of most layers by compositions 3-6. This let me treat each layer more as individual objects, which is what lead to the leaf pile in #6. I’m using some pretty thick opacities in most of these later comps. Overall, I like the series as a progression.

Glazed Bowl: Photo Stack #5

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:28:17 -0500

The 50 or so photos of this piece of pottery have one thing in cabin. the edge of the bowl passes through the same point up near the upper left third. I’ve also started grouping my image layers, and using the group to control opacity and blend mode.

Shepherd's Rd: Photo Stack #4

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:05:31 -0500

About 20 shots taken with via iPhone while driving home. With the lower file size, it was a lot easier to work individual layer masks. These have a lot more variety in the layer opacities and blend modes.

Cable Knot: Experiment #3 in Photo Stacking

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:07:47 -0600

Same drill: 30 Layers in Photoshop Stack. Varying levels of opacity with mixed blend modes. Subject is a USB cable on stainless steel.

DJ Mixer: Further Experiments in Photo Stacking

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:41:31 -0600

Yesterday I came home with a new piece of hardware, a Torq DJ mixer midi controller. It became the subject of this followup to the Daily Bread. This layer stack ended up feeling very inorganic, so I glitched it up by attaching a layer mask to each of the layers. These layer masks were frames exported as an image sequence from a generated animation. This stack consisted of 30+ layers with higher opacities (30-50%), overlay and normal blend modes, and layer masks.

Daily Bread: An Experiment in Photo Stacking

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Last night, I took 40 photos of a particularly nice loaf of bread. I then opened 6-18 of those images as a stack in Photoshop and composited them together. Each layer was given a fairly low opacity (8-15%). Most of the variations here simply resulted from the stack order of the photos and the blending mode used.