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 08/19/2002 10:31:20 AM · #1
Curious how people would have felt about something like this. Especially interested to know if anybody would have thought it was too much a picture of a piece of art. (And before anybody asks, no I did NOT actually put all these pencils together for the shot. I took one shot of each color and then used a montage program to make the shot.)



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 08/19/2002 10:38:08 AM · #2
wow, really awesome shot! i think i wouldve given it VERY high marks
 08/19/2002 10:38:33 AM · #3
Regardless of how it would have been taken here, Jeff, this is really clever!
 08/19/2002 10:40:33 AM · #4
This is really really cool. I would have rated it high, but think you would have gotten a lot of "you have way too much time on your hands" comments. lol. There was a guy I saw on a ripleys believe it or not show that did this with gumballs. He plotted it all out and then put the gumballs in sealed plastic tubes lined up all right next to each other to make pictures. It was really cool. I like it. Really neat idea. I have a program on my other computer that does that for me. I just enter the photo and chose what kind of things I want it made out of and it does it. I made a photo of my son out of a million little photos of my son. It was cool.
~Heather~
 08/19/2002 10:43:08 AM · #5
That's a really amazing effect! I've seen that technique used before in a variety of ways, and I've wondered what software program will do such a thing... can you tell me where I can find something like that?
 08/19/2002 10:46:07 AM · #6
Originally posted by hbunch7187:
This is really really cool. I would have rated it high, but think you would have gotten a lot of "you have way too much time on your hands" comments. lol. There was a guy I saw on a ripleys believe it or not show that did this with gumballs. He plotted it all out and then put the gumballs in sealed plastic tubes lined up all right next to each other to make pictures. It was really cool. I like it. Really neat idea. I have a program on my other computer that does that for me. I just enter the photo and chose what kind of things I want it made out of and it does it. I made a photo of my son out of a million little photos of my son. It was cool.
~Heather~

Can I ask where you got that program?

Thanks,
Terry

 08/19/2002 10:48:38 AM · #7
Originally posted by Meggie:
wow, really awesome shot! i think i wouldve given it VERY high marks

I'm impressed! Very nice...but it wouldn't be permitted here would it?
 08/19/2002 10:57:18 AM · #8
The software I use is PhotoMontage. However, there ARE other software packages out there and it might be worth looking into them. One of the things I most dislike about PhotoMontage is that I am limited in the number of my own photos I can use in an image. So, if I only use my photos as the micro images, my finished image isn't as good. If I want a higher quality finished image, I have to use their images in conjunction with my own and there winds up being very few of my own images in the finished product.
 08/19/2002 10:57:58 AM · #9
How do you mean 'too much art'? Art is always my first priority in images. Whatever the technique the childs expression and your crop are basicly very appealling.
 08/19/2002 10:58:01 AM · #10
I like it a lot but it would have been against the rules I think.
 08/19/2002 10:58:44 AM · #11
Originally posted by Gracious:
I'm impressed! Very nice...but it wouldn't be permitted here would it?

If I'd ended up doing this for my actual entry, I would have purchased color pencils, cut them into little pieces and actually made this thing by hand. Then I would have taken a picture of it. That's why I asked if it was too much taking a picture of a piece of art. In other words, would this have been to much like taking a picture of a painting?




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 08/19/2002 11:01:36 AM · #12
Well Jeff, truly amazing and I too have seen this kind of thing before.

I have a feeling even if you DID have enough time on your hands to do this it would have deserved much higher scores than it would have gotten and some stupid comments would have ensued as well :-)
 08/19/2002 11:13:47 AM · #13
I'd have been deeply impressed. Would likely have been a 10 from me.

John
 08/19/2002 11:33:09 AM · #14
Ditto John (Floyd).
I think it's fabulous... and had it been created for real and photographed, it would have likely gotten a 10 from me.
 08/19/2002 11:35:48 AM · #15
I found this to be very creative, and if executed properly with real pencils would've gotten a ten from me. Two of my biggies when scoring is creativity and effort, and this would've have plenty of both.
 08/19/2002 01:30:54 PM · #16
fabulous! a 12 on a scale of 1-10.
 08/19/2002 01:38:48 PM · #17
Originally posted by Patella:
Curious how people would have felt about something like this. Especially interested to know if anybody would have thought it was too much a picture of a piece of art. (And before anybody asks, no I did NOT actually put all these pencils together for the shot. I took one shot of each color and then used a montage program to make the shot.)


I wanted to address this original question since I don't think anyone else has really. At first I thought that this might be considered a piece of art, and therefore technically against the rules and maybe even considered less of an artistic photograph and more of a documentation of the art itself. But as I thought more about it, I'm kind of leaning the other way. A large part of artwork is the medium that you've chosen to convey your vision. The medium here from conception to completion is really photography. This probably wouldn't be made to be hung on a wall as a bunch of pencils glued to a piece of cardboard. It would be made to be hung on a wall as a photograph. To that end, I think this is perfectly valid.

Of course, this would all change if this actually WAS a bunch of pencils glued to a piece of cardboard that was already hanging on a wall. Then it would just be a photograph of an art piece that was already conceived and completed in another medium.

I guess it's all in the intent.
 08/19/2002 01:59:01 PM · #18
Originally posted by ClubJuggle:
Originally posted by hbunch7187:
[i]This is really really cool. I would have rated it high, but think you would have gotten a lot of "you have way too much time on your hands" comments. lol. There was a guy I saw on a ripleys believe it or not show that did this with gumballs. He plotted it all out and then put the gumballs in sealed plastic tubes lined up all right next to each other to make pictures. It was really cool. I like it. Really neat idea. I have a program on my other computer that does that for me. I just enter the photo and chose what kind of things I want it made out of and it does it. I made a photo of my son out of a million little photos of my son. It was cool.
~Heather~

Can I ask where you got that program?

Thanks,
Terry

[/i]

The program came with my digital camera. It's a HP 315, so maybe you could contact HP to find out how you could get it. It's called PhotoMontage but it says on the disk FOR HP PHOTOSMART, so I don't know if it's different than a normal PhotoMontage program. It is made by ArcSoft and is version 1.0. That's pretty much all I know about it. I had made a photo of my son out of little photos of my son. I know it's got other features, but I havent really used it much, shortly after I got it, I switched computers and my new comp has winXP and I didn't want to mess around with IF it was going to work with XP. Anyway, I hope that helped. Sorry I don't know more.
~Heather~
BTW, I have seen it used to make a photo of a graduate for display at her grad party. It was made out of a lot of photos from her life. Really neat.
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