[Pics] Flickr Spotlight – Full Frame Scanography

by Noam Galai May 4, 2012 13 Comments

I bet most of you never heard of the term "Scanography" before, but its ok, I just learned about it a week ago. The idea of Scanography is using a regular paper scanner as a camera, and take pictures of whatever can fit in or around the scanner. The results are somewhere between scary to magical. Check out the best Scanography photos found on Flickr!

I personally really like the way these portraits come out, its nothing like what you get when you use a normal DSLR or point and shoot cameras.
Cant wait to see some of your Scanography photos on our Facebook Group or here in the comments!

Photo: Shelby Robinson.

Photo: Jeremy Isaacson.

Photo: Carly Hildebrant.

Photo: Jazmine Palmer.

Photo: Emma Caroline.

Photo: eumaros.

Photo: Sarah.

Photo: Orbittrap.

Photo: Anna Jane.

Photo: Jaz Marsh.

Photo: Stephen Criscolo.

Photo: Pete Grange.

Photo: Crystelle Rose.

Photo: Peet Grange.

Photo: Deltalex.

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From Noam:
I always love hearing from fellow photographers. If you have any ideas for themes, or any other suggestion ill be more than happy to hear from you. You can find me on Facebook and Twitter. Oh, and of course on Flickr.

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Noam Galai is a Senior Fstoppers Staff Writer and NYC Celebrity / Entertainment photographer. Noam's work appears on publications such as Time Magazine, New York Times, People Magazine, Vogue and Us Weekly on a daily basis.

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stefanhellbergDOTcom May 4, 2012

wow! Thats something!

Bua May 4, 2012

wawawee!!

Muriel_B May 4, 2012

Unfortunately, the depth of field of scanners is smaller and smaller for the new devices, so only the parts that are in contact with the glass plate are actually in focus. If you need a bigger depth of field you usually need to go for an older scanner (which might actually be a very cheap deal at the same time).

thehiker May 6, 2012 Muriel_B

The loss of depth of field is what makes the phtoo surreal you want a camera.

thehiker May 6, 2012 thehiker

By the way I am creating a new word for a scan photo notice above a phtoo.

Shawn Robertson May 4, 2012

I don't understand how so many people on Flickr always seem to know whats "going" on currently. It always seems like tons of people know of the latest trend at the same time just like those floating pictures. Feels like there is some memo that goes out to everyone and I miss it.

Ji Tu May 4, 2012 Shawn Robertson

lol its called a photostream

Shawn Robertson May 4, 2012 Ji Tu

I am on Flickr every day all day but unless i am specifically looking at random peoples photo streams, i never see those things. Out of all of my contacts, none of them ever do anything like this (though it'd be cool if they did) so are you saying that you are supposed to look at random contacts photo streams? or do yo have some setting that just feeds you streams of random people?