Scanography

[Raymond Brettschneider]

I found this inspiring idea on Flickr, it's about scanography, where you place items (or/and your face) on a flatbed scanner, and use the scanner to capture a 'photo'. It gives some very interesting perspectives, and I will sure give this a try as well!
Link: http://blog.flickr.net/en/2012/04/28/scanography/

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[Sara Byrne]

Never heard of that!!! Funny - I have a scanner about 10 feet away from me.... May have to try it! :)

[Hope Russell]

These are beautiful

I've tried something similar, but beware scanners are incredibly hard to get clean when you want to. I use my scanner for old photos and every smudge and speck of dirt shows. It took me forever to get my scanner back in shape after doing this

[Elke W.]

@herussell And what if you place a transparent (yet firm) sheet...like for an overhead projector, on the glass plate of the scanner..... Just a thought ;-)

[Elke W.]

These are beauts!

[Hope Russell]

@elke Great idea! Wish I'd thought of it then :)

[Elke W.]

@herussell Well you could do that when you want to give it an other try ;-)

[Jo]

I saw this - fascinating results. :)

[Jani M]

Cool alternative for copying machine when doing butt shots ;-)
@elke tagging you for no apparent reason :-D

[Elke W.]

@janmaki sure hahaha I do happen to have a flatbed :-P

[Elke W.]

@janmaki Or should I start calling it a flatbutt-scanner? Although I doubt the screen will be large enough.... ;-)

[Jani M]

@elke hahaha if in doubt, you need to try it & post the results. I promise to take a look :)

[Elke W.]

@janmaki :-P No doubt that you will Haha

[emily tull]

ahhh have done this a few times recently and in my first year project too :)

[Raymond Brettschneider]

@houdiniem Cool!

[emily tull]

@raymond thank you

[Raymond Brettschneider]

Made this one myself using this concept as the foundation.

Under the ice

[Stacy ♥ DOF]

This is a neat concept - I tried it today.



@5unflow3r :)

[Kevin]

I've done this before - I think I was drunk.

[emily tull]

@raymond cool

[Trina P Holub]

@sdpace Very cool!

[bmnorthernlight]

@houdiniem Brilliant!
@raymond Great take on this and thanks for sharing the link - loving the idea and will have to have a play around with it :-)

[Arielle]

:) Tried it out myself.

[Miley]

Fantastic answer!

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