Growing Out of Bounds

This is just a learning experience for me, but I think there may be an easier way then working the final layer mask at 184% an the feather brush set to 9 pixels and my face 6 inches from the monitor for 20 hours or so.

I really did have fun with this.

I have included the original photo as well as how I took the shot. It's only a couple thousand foot drop...no worries.

4 Comments

I like this a lot. Twenty hours sounds about right. Very Cool.

Can you imagine what it would have taken to accomplish this before digital imaging was possible? I am reminded of the late Jerry Uelsmann, but I am not aware of him ever working with color images. What he did was hard enough.

It was possible to print B&W images on color paper, and Kodak made a panchromatic B&W paper to allow the printing of B&W versions of color negatives. There would not have been any contrast control in either case. I suspect the only way to get this result back in the day would have been to do the whole thing on regular graded B&W paper and then hand-color the brickwork. That would have required a much finer touch than I ever possessed and also extended your twenty hours by quite a lot.

Great job Dean, and I really appreciate the effort you have put into displaying the process so that others might get involved.

Thanks for inspiring us all to trying this technique. I am not sure if any of my shots will be suited, but I'll be sure to keep an eye open with this in mind when shooting in future.

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