Thursday, April 18, 2013

smash - vanishing species

i can't tell whether that is me in the center of the vanishing species silhouettes -or- a letter carrier?

silhouettes - something else i would like to do, but will not have time to learn.

thanks smash.

i have been taking phone photos of envelopes  and putting them in the schedule to pop up and have been anxiously waiting to see how photos compare to scans...and then i realized that i can post anything i like any time i like, so i pulled this one out to see how it looks....
please let me know if you think photos are better than, worse than or the same as scans.

6 comments:

  1. To me, scans are far preferable, for two reasons: First, a scan eliminates the phone's problem with shooting something just right and not skewing the perspective, and second, scanning eliminates the darkness, ripples and shadows which show up on a phone photo.

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  2. I agree with the above comment. The envelope is a little dark around the stamp and the shape is distorted. The scans look better, but it is nice to have the flexibility of either. Smash

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  3. Incidentally the creature in the middle is my sister-in-law, not you. The silhouettes were traced from the top of the stamp sheet, placed in the envelope and outlined with a marker or crow quill and filled in with marker. Smash

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  4. ok...i will go back to scans...but you will have to put up with photos until i get entirely moved out of the studio and sell it...which hopefully will take a very short time and the photos are already lined up, well into may....

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  5. This is an awesome envelope. I don't know if the center pinkish tone is actually on the envelope or if it's a result of the photo, but it's very cool as a sunset feel to the scene. Beautiful lettering!

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  6. the pink is my weird lighting on my desk...but glad you like the effect :-)

    thank you smash for the details :-)

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