Spotlights 3 – Animated GIF, Click to View
10th September, 2012Spotlights 2 – Animated GIF, Click to View
17th July, 2012Wobble 3D Draw
17th July, 2012S – select
X – delete
F – freeze
Spotlights 1 – Animated GIF, click to view
14th July, 2012Scanner Obscura Part 2
5th July, 2012These camera obscura scans have been resized to a much wider aspect ratio, stretching the original image horizontally. As moving objects pass across the scanner sensor, they appear compressed to different degrees depending on their speed. Stretching these images out revealed walking people and moving vehicles that hadn’t been much more than vertical lines in the originals. These scans have not been altered in any other way except to flip, crop and resize them.
Scanner Obscura Part 1
16th June, 2012My home town of Dumfries has a camera obscura in an 18th Century windmill tower on top of a hill. The camera obscura was a precursor to photography that did not capture or record any images. This one, controlled by a system of ropes and pulleys, projects views of the surrounding town and countryside on to a table. The images here were made by capturing those views using a normal flatbed scanner on the camera obscura table. It’s like a scanner camera (where a scanner is used in place of film or a sensor) but on a bigger scale. Because a scanner builds up the image slowly by moving from one side to another, rather than all at once, moving objects are distorted. These images haven’t been changed in any way except to crop them. Thanks to Alex Boyd for the photos at the end showing the setup.
Grain Shade 9
22nd October, 2011This started out as a photo. As usual, it’s been through Processing.
![Grain Shade 9](http://joepatrickshellard.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/GrainShade9-480.jpg)
![Grain Shade 9 - Detail](http://joepatrickshellard.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/GrainShade9-detail.jpg)