Nautilus shell-Scanner as camera...

I'm impressed with the results of scanning this object directly

using a flatbed scanner. What do you think?

I tried to use my scanner to make such things too, but I couldn't get any appreciable result.

I think it's because my objects had holes so the light escaped and I got really dark images, but your shell has not so the light diffuses inside the shell...have you tried with other objects?

I have been using this method with mixed success. I think this is the best 3D object I have seen. Congrats, --- There could be a real technique developed in this area.

It reminds me of guys like Ansel Adams, Edward Weston or Minor White. Beautiful

Sincerely Thomas Mau

It's been done before; but you did it very well.

Seems to glow from within. I never achieve such pleasing results when attempting direct scans. I would love to photograph this shell as a macro and compare the difference in detail. Artistically, almost embryonic, floating in deep space. Great work.

I've tried scanning images of leaves and got some decent results with them (http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=603339). Have never tried anything 3-D. I got a couple of comments on my image, pointing out that my images were not photographs and hence do not belong in PN. What do you think about that. I frankly hadn't really given it much thought till then and while in some aspects they are probably right, in another sense in todays world of digital photography that distinction does get pretty blurred. Anyway, nice work.