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02/19/2004 11:28:24 AM · #1 |
At my camera club meeting last night, I saw a very interesting photo technique that I intend to try myself.
The photographer projected a slide image on to some sort of semi-transparent projector screen. He set his camera up behind the screen and made a photograph of the projection (from the back side). This technique, along with whatever type of projection screen he was using, gave the photograph a look and feel of being done through some sort of glass... like a shower door glass of some sort... The image had a very 'painterly' feel to it. It was a lovely abstract view.
Has anyone ever tried something like this?
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02/19/2004 11:33:06 AM · #2 |
Sounds neat - do you have an example/sample?
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02/19/2004 11:35:09 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by jonpink:
Sounds neat - do you have an example/sample? |
Unfortunately I do not. The photo I saw last night was a 35mm slide and I doubt there is a scan available. Maybe I will have something after I figger out how to do it myself. My projector screen is not semi transparent (I don't think) so I'm not sure how I'm going to make this happen just yet. I may have to play around with some alternative projection surfaces.
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02/19/2004 11:47:03 AM · #4 |
a tightly stretched white sheet might work?.,..
one with a tight weave to it. high pil# is it?
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02/19/2004 11:51:24 AM · #5 |
I was looking at a website the other day where the person did something similar. He called it 'special effects' and combined a projected slide something behind, in front, or on an item and then shot that. It came out similar to the effect used with layers in photoshop. I cant remember the website offhand but I will see if I can find it again and post a link to it.
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02/19/2004 12:12:16 PM · #6 |
Perhaps a shower door or similar material might make for an interesting projection 'target'  or maybe a screen door ?
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02/19/2004 12:15:21 PM · #7 |
Squinted - woman with arm in air - mirror and sink?
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02/19/2004 12:32:50 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by jonpink:
Squinted - woman with arm in air - mirror and sink? |
yup, with the qualification that it's a naked woman, and the further qualification that she's my wife - so quit squintin' at her :)
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02/19/2004 12:33:48 PM · #9 |
Another technique I have seen is projecting a pattern on a 3D shape, for example projecting a wood pattern on a person, making the person look like a wood carving.
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02/19/2004 12:35:33 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by willem:
Another technique I have seen is projecting a pattern on a 3D shape, for example projecting a wood pattern on a person, making the person look like a wood carving. |
I've also seen that done using sandwiched slides of a texture and a person. It can probably be approximated with the luminosity blending mode in photoshop too.
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02/19/2004 12:45:58 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by jmsetzler:
At my camera club meeting last night, I saw a very interesting photo technique that I intend to try myself.
The photographer projected a slide image on to some sort of semi-transparent projector screen. He set his camera up behind the screen and made a photograph of the projection (from the back side). This technique, along with whatever type of projection screen he was using, gave the photograph a look and feel of being done through some sort of glass... like a shower door glass of some sort... The image had a very 'painterly' feel to it. It was a lovely abstract view.
Has anyone ever tried something like this? |
Tried it, never achieved great success with it. It's typically referred to as rear-projection. It used to be fairly common in the movies as a way to shoot things like driving down the road in a car so they could show the motion of driving, while shooting the actors on a soundstage.
Usually, the stuff I've seen done photographically was using the projected image as a background for a different subject illuminated separately.
A similar effect is to project a slide onto another object to change its appearance. Like shooting a closeup of granite and then projecting that onto a something like a person to give an illusion of them being made of stone.
Biggest problem I've had with it is that the illumination from slide projectors really is not that bright. I've also tried some things with LCD projectors, but they are worse.
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04/17/2004 11:10:17 AM · #12 |
One of my professional photographer contacts used a technique similar to this called "in-camera masking" -- I'm not entirely sure exactly how all the details worked, but he was able to shoot one image on a black background, then produce a knock-out of that image, then mask the film with this knock-out, then using rear-projection, shoot a second exposure with the new background. It was a tremendously cool technique, and he was very adept at it.
I think that the double-exposure was pretty much the key to the whole deal because it allowed him to properly expose both halves of the image. When shooting, for example, a model in front of a rear-projection screen, you'll be literally shooting into a source of light, with the resulting exposure difficulties.
Regarding materials to project onto, he used a neat-looking random fiberous mat (sort of like the stuff you'd use to repair a fiberglass boat, only much thinner and not glass). The stuff really lit up, almost glowing, when it was lit from behind! He said it was from a fabric store, and was used to stiffen collars. Inner-facing or inner-lining maybe? |
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