Scanner (Darkly?) High Resolution Images

I was trying to figure out what to write for the pinned topic for this category and one of my thoughts was to mention how we are open to all forms of image capture from pinhole to scanning. Then I remembered some really dreamy images from Christopher Mark Perez that were captured using a scanner.

He had written about this in his blog a little while back and the images stuck in my mind (mostly because I wanted to try it out and never got around to it). His results were awesome, though.

Have a look at this pear:

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Man that’s dreamy. Almost as compelling as this leaf:

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As he notes in his post it’s a wonderful way to generate ridiculously high resolution images inexpensively.

Has anyone else tried this?

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I hadn’t tried it, but you’ve inspired me so I had a go.

These are both unprocessed and were scanned with the cone lying in perpendicular directions - so lighting matters even on a scanner.

http://www.23hq.com/paynekj/photo/20745771?album_id=20745770
http://www.23hq.com/paynekj/photo/20745772?album_id=20745770

Apparently as a new user I can’t post images

Kevin

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@paynekj - I just fixed your trust level to member, so it should work fine now. Just put your image URL by itself on it’s own line to get it auto fetched/embedded:

23: Cone on a scanner - Kevin

23: Cone on a scanner - Kevin

23: Cone on a scanner - Kevin
23: Cone on a scanner - Kevin

Just put a space before the url on a line to make it a link offsite instead of an image embed.

That one on the right is really pretty also. I love the light falloff towards the edges in these. (I may have to go try this myself soon, the results are very attractive to me).