August 13, 2006, Big Sur Coast, California / June 17, 2020, Silicon Valley, California
Several months ago, Bruce Percy inverted some of his images to create, essentially, photo negatives. It worked rather well.
I thought I’d try it.
(Canon 20D, Canon 24-105 f/4 Zoom. Editing in Adobe Photoshop.)
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Nice try! 🙂 This works very well, I think.
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Thank you very much. Purely experimental.
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It feels like an eerie transformation. Light, vibrant and bright.
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Thank you. Almost seems like a snow scene now.
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Back in the days of film I occasionally printed a positive as a negative and sometimes ended up liking the reversal more than the original.
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Yes. That’s what Bruce was doing and I thought this image might possibly suit itself to that. Turns out there was a lot more tonality in the sky than I had realized. I actually had to tone it down for this to work at all.
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I spend more time looking at these types of images. I tend to see more with less, if that can be said.
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Thank you very much. It can be said, indeed. And that is my intention most of the time.
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Funny how this seems colder now! Works well this way too though. Also that cloud is visible now!
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It does feel colder. Seems like a snow scene. I actually toned the sky down a bit when I did the inversion. There was actually more going on there than I had realized.
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I gathered as much when I saw the cloud on my mobile (on the previous image) but then, when I looked at it from my computer, it was almost invisible!
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It’s interesting and different monitors. iPhones and iPads actually reproduce color very well. My computer monitors are meticulously calibrated.
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I first saw it on my Samsung and noticed the cloud, then going on my iMac [calibrated] I was trying to see it and could only see some faint notion, so I checked back to make sure I really had seen it! I would’ve thought that it should be the other way round… but maybe in the …old days! 😉
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Your iMac is probably more accurate.
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No, your iMac is almost certainly more accurate.
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…but that doesn’t sound reasonable. Sure it ought to, however it should show things that are there! 😉
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It very accurately shows that there is not much there. The Samsung is exaggerating it.
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I think it would be great to have the two hanging next to each other or mounted in a double mat one atop the other. In a totally unrelated but barely germane comparison…one of my jobs is to reupholster dining chair seats. Sometimes people prefer the backside of the fabric which often is almost as opposite the front side as your two versions are to each other. I don’t think I prefer one over the other and were I a collector I think the double mat would be my request.
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Thank you. Interesting idea. I posted the black one on Instagram yesterday. I’m about to post this one. We will see what people there say.
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You are the one who counts but I often post with the same curiosity. Sometimes I wonder why I am the only with good taste! 🙂
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There is at least one other of us. The posts are to some degree surveys.
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For me, the bright white background of the site is fighting a little with the image – I find myself wanting to see it on a different surface. But I’m all for the experimentation!
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Thanks. That’s exactly what it was, an experiment.
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