Balcony Apartments, Omaha: The original colour photograph was converted to b/w and perspective corrected. Then it was a matter of seeing how far to go with the idea of detail reduction...

jim hill Loc: Springfield, IL

The original colour photograph was converted to b/w and perspective corrected. Then it was a matter of seeing how far to go with the idea of detail reduction with manipulated texture. Once satisfied with the results a negative version of the same proportions was produced and joined to the positive. Best viewed in Download.

The original photograph was of an apartment building in Omaha, NE

Your thoughts welcomed.

Balcony Apartments, Omaha

(Download)

RichardTaylor Loc: Sydney, Australia

Very creative, and reminds me of the song "Little boxes.

conkerwood

This is a fascinating image, I have spent quite some time exploring the tiny details and I have gone back to it quite a few times so it clearly holds my attention. I was interested in your final step, you described joining the positive and the negative images. Could you elaborate?
Really enjoyable pic. Apart from photography my wife and I both share a love of jigsaw puzzles. We both looked at this and decided that it would be a wonderful but fiendishly difficult puzzle.

Peter

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Absolutely captivating!

And yes, Richard's mention of Little Boxes (Malvina Reynolds/Pete Seeger). Lyrics:
http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/MALVINA/mr094.htm

And yes, Jim, please talk more about joining positive and negative images. My porous brain is thinking you've done another? Can you direct us to it, and discuss the process?

This might be my favorite of yours yet! It's like a tapestry of lives - and that's the most poetic you'll ever see me here :)

dansmith Loc: Southwest Alberta Canada

jim hill wrote:

The original colour photograph was converted to b/w and perspective corrected. Then it was a matter of seeing how far to go with the idea of detail reduction with manipulated texture. Once satisfied with the results a negative version of the same proportions was produced and joined to the positive. Best viewed in Download.

The original photograph was of an apartment building in Omaha, NE

Your thoughts welcomed.

What a good subject for the bas relief treatment, download certainly does justice to the detail.

jim hill Loc: Springfield, IL

RichardTaylor wrote:

Very creative, and reminds me of the song "Little boxes.

Thanks Richard, is that little boxes without topses?

jim hill Loc: Springfield, IL

conkerwood wrote:

This is a fascinating image, I have spent quite some time exploring the tiny details and I have gone back to it quite a few times so it clearly holds my attention. I was interested in your final step, you described joining the positive and the negative images. Could you elaborate?
Really enjoyable pic. Apart from photography my wife and I both share a love of jigsaw puzzles. We both looked at this and decided that it would be a wonderful but fiendishly difficult puzzle.

Peter

Thanks Peter, I appreciate your comments and time spent with the image. My wife, a puzzle aficionado also, agrees with your statement.

The image on the right is the positive image. I inverted it to negative. Placed the two side by side on my screen and moved the left negative into the right positive image until I felt a natural place to stop. Then I cloned out the noticeable division line that separated the two by cloning small selected areas from both sides over the line obscuring it as best I could so that it might appear seamless. There is a little more of the left negative image than the right.

Hope this helps explain how the image was made.

jim hill Loc: Springfield, IL

Linda From Maine wrote:

Absolutely captivating!

And yes, Richard's mention of Little Boxes (Malvina Reynolds/Pete Seeger). Lyrics:
http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/MALVINA/mr094.htm

And yes, Jim, please talk more about joining positive and negative images. My porous brain is thinking you've done another? Can you direct us to it, and discuss the process?

This might be my favorite of yours yet! It's like a tapestry of lives - and that's the most poetic you'll ever see me here :)

Linda, Thanks for the kind remarks and the "waxing poetic". And thanks for the link to the music Richard mentioned also.

I do not remember another project like this one but my porous brain is more porous than yours. So it could be stashed somewhere in UHH.

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

RichardTaylor wrote:

Very creative, and reminds me of the song "Little boxes.

That the Malvina Reynolds' song that Pete Seeger made popular.