Making Photographs Without A Camera

I've recently been experimenting with creating photos by scanning

objects directly on a CanoScan D2400U flatbed scanner, working on

them in Photoshop Elements and printing on an Epson 2200. So far, the

subjects have been flowers and fruit, but there are many other

possibilities to while away the upcoming frigid days. The results so

far are very encouraging, with fantastic detail, color, depth of

field and decent illumination.

 

I've attached an example to give you an idea of how they look and

plan to post some more to my gallery as soon as I become a

subscriber. This opens the door to some fascinating possibilities and

so I figured this would be the most appropriate forum in which to

share the concept.<div></div>

<a href="http://www.keithlaban.co.uk">Keith Laban Photography</a><p>People have been doing this since the introduction of scanners. It's a bit like sitting on the photocopier and getting a picture of your backside or placing an object on photographic paper under an enlarger.<div></div>

I swear there was a POW of scanned mushrooms, but I can not find it.

<a href="http://www.keithlaban.co.uk">Keith Laban Photography</a><p>Emre, it was a leaf and it can be seen <a href="http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo.tcl?photo_id=480008">here</a>

As a newcomer to this forum, Keith, I thank you for your warm welcome. I well remember the early days of copiers and many that preceded them, but wasn't aware that the use of scanners for this purpose was so commonplace. Though I fail to appreciate your subject matter, it gives me a sense of where your thoughts lie.

 

Thanks for sharpening my perspective.

Well remembered, but I am talking way back. I am pretty certain it featured mushrooms; maybe it was not the POW?

A little off-topic, but interesting:

 

http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/text-better-scanner-cam.html

Nice image. If your post intriques one other person to give it a try, it has done its job.

Dick, you can get some amazing results using a scanner as camera. It will be interesting to see your results. There are some artists that do this exclusively and have some beautiful work, I just can't remember their names. Try googling "scanner as camera" etc. and you should get some hits.

P.S. I don't know why Keith was so nasty, it's not like their are tons of artists using scanners as a vehicle for their expression. Out of the tens of thousands of images I have seen here on PN over the last two years, I only remember seeing a handful at best.

<a href="http://www.keithlaban.co.uk">Keith Laban Photography</a><p>I'd like to make it quite clear that the image I posted here was not meant as a comment of any kind but merely an existing image of mine produced with a flatbed scanner and used as an example.<p>Tim, isn't the Internet a strange medium. I love to know why you think I was being nasty.

Keith, I just checked your leaf link and also the really beautiful work on your website. Now, for the benefit of us visually unenhanced types, would you be a good chap and divulge what your scanned image is. OR, what part of the leaf turned to what angle with what smeared on it would cause the two images to match on an overlay? (^__^)

<a href="http://www.keithlaban.co.uk">Keith Laban Photography</a><p>Forgive me Mel, I don't understand your question. The leaf image is not mine, it was made by Juergen Kollmorgen.

Keith, I'm trying to figure out what you scanned, and I assumed your caption was a joke. You replied to an earlier post "Emre, it was a leaf and it can be seen here."

<a href="http://www.keithlaban.co.uk">Keith Laban Photography</a><p>Mel, if you click on the word "here" in that post you will be taken to the POW of the scanned leaf.<p>Is it "shit" or is it not. LOL! Thats for me to know and everyone else to guess ;-)

Dick, I for one like the scanned flowers image you first posted, its very nice! Keep up the good work and the creative spirit.

Here's one of my favorites:

<a href="http://www.katinkamatson.com/">http://www.katinkamatson.com/</a>

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Andrew