I made a self portrait using slitscan technique. My process was as follows:
First, I set up diffused lighting 45 degrees to incident of direction of camera facing me. Then, I set up the camera, Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera, with a 135mm enlarger lens on bellows, shooting raw CDNG video. I set up an office swivel chair, and had my mother in law rotate me as I sat as still and centered along the axis of rotation as I could. I shot in vertical orientation, committing the sin of vertical video to maximize resolution, getting 1952 height by use of Rawtherapee processing without raw borders (cool thing about foss is there is no borders to what you can do, lol).
I took my sequence and processed a frame in the Rawtherapee GUI, (raw attatched) and exported my sidechain file (attatched), using a flat and low contrast settings to maximize available shadow and highlight detail for later post processing, as well as capture sharpening set to auto radius to hopefully coutneract the imperfect focus of my moving self.
Headshot.pp3 (12.4 KB) BMPCC_1_2020-04-06_0953_C0011_000518.dng (1.9 MB)
I then used the command line interface of Rawtherapee to render all 1400 raw files to tiff, and imported the tiff sequence to Davinci Resolve, where I used video stabilization to improve the smoothness of rotation and evenness of the resulting slitscan, as the chair was moved by hand, and I of course couldnāt be perfectly still, being a living human. After stabilized, I used Optical Flow interpolated speed reduction to get more resolution out of a slower scan. Then I exported back to tiff, and followed this tutorial for imagemagick commands to crop the tiffs to vertical slits and then concatenate to one image:
http://cameronbrowning.com/content/creating-slit-scan-images-from-quicktime-movies-with-ffmpeg-on-mac-os-x/
The raw output was still messed up a little in terms of proportions, so I did some mesh warping until it looked good, and then I used cloning, healing and infilling to fix the edge, as well as clone out an artifact from my left eye from blinking. I then did more extensive retouching, as well as dodge and burning to take my hair out of the deep shadow range and add further contrast. I used frequency separation and cloning to smooth out my face, and then enhanced the saturation of my eyes, as the BMPCC tends to want to produce dull blues.
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