![]() This classical porthole is meant to reside high in the sky, and so it places Samantha at the farthest distance from the viewer. When I came across a tondo of cherubim, I knew I hit the jackpot. I needed some illusionary device that made Samantha appear to be as sharp as the other surrounding objects I added into her photomontage. The problem was that the picture was clearly out of focus. Take the dreamscape portrait of Samantha L, whose mom and dad dearly loved an overexposed, out-of-focus shot of their prima ballerina on her belly, daydreaming in ballet class. Sometimes the blurriest photo is someone’s favorite photo. To find these cultural, historical or geographical objects, I do an extensive photo search worldwide, and ask amateur and professional photographers for permission to use their photos for a one-time use.įuzzy, Damaged or Overexposed Photos in my Custom Digital Photo Collage Other times there are missing objects (like the Japanese Obon lanterns in Nori the Nanny’s dreamscape) that are important for lending a feeling of authenticity to your custom digital photo collage. Either I grab the missing part from another photo of the same individual, or I work like a portrait painter, “cloning” color or texture from similar photos so that I can “clone” the missing part onto the spot in need. Missing knees, sneakers, tips of fingers – anything that’s been lopped off by the photographer’s cropping – is happily reconstructed one of two ways. Sometimes body parts are missing (like the little boy in Peter C’s dreamscape, who originally sits in waist deep grass, but then needs legs to kneel on in the photomontage on your left). Missing Limbs, Missing Objects In Your Custom Digital Photo Collage This is especially important when a 4″ x 6″ photo may be scanned at a high resolution and then enlarged to prints 8″ x 10″ or larger. Before any photographic image is placed into your custom digital photo collage, it’s scrubbed and groomed of any visual noise (dents, discoloration, scanner lint, etc.). Digital manipulation (flipping orientation, changing scale, adding shadows, motion and lighting effects)įrom a water-damaged photo blown down the street by a hurricane to a cracked and overexposed photo of newlyweds from the 1920s, my goal is repairing a damaged photo to its original condition as best I can – or else we choose another photograph.Photo augmentation (recreating missing parts and reconstituting obliterated features).Photo restoration (repair of moderate cracks).Photo retouching (color and complexion correction, saturating colors).Removal of any visual noise (scanner lint, etc.).My other top priority is restoring (and sometimes improving upon) your photos before it goes into your custom digital photo collage. And always, I will play with your photos until a very different story emerges that will tug at your heartstrings. Then I use your photos of people, pets, belongings and landscapes to t ell the story. Often I will add a piece of memorabilia, your personal artwork, as well as meaningful objects and backdrops from my own image library or photo research to enrich the dreamscape. My first priority is to find the story, whether that means it will be a real memory, an embellished memory or pure fantasy. I create these digital photo collages on the computer, and almost any image can find itself in a dreamscape, so long as it’s scannable or it comes from a photo you send to me digitally. The custom storytelling photomontages I create for clients – “dreamscapes” as I call them – are a kind of hybrid photograph. My Solemn Promise Combining and Repurposing Your Photos into a Storytelling Picture What’s So Fine About a Fine Artist Who Works Digitally? Storytelling Gifts To Wear, Mail and DisplayĬombining and Repurposing Your Photos into a Storytelling Picture.A Gift of Memory To Make You Laugh and Cry.Renovate Your Mind With a Memory Artist.Healing Gift Ideas For You Or Someone Else. ![]()
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