I just inherited a very nice camera, and i was thinking about some photography options.
In my head i was thinking of digital pictures being processed through lzx gear that would eventually be printed onto canvas. One of my friends is an art teacher, and she would be able to show me how to make and stretch my own canvases.
I'm thinking of large scale pop art/ abstract style photographs.
Does this sound like an o.k. idea? How is the resolution on the lzx modules? What computer programs should i be looking at? I basically just want something to save the pictures to after i have processed them with the equipment. I know that photoshop offers more color filters and shit like that than i will ever need, but this is how i feel like doing it.
opinions? guidance?
Looking into photography options
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bryantcheramie
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The resolution will be fairly low to use for large scale prints, and will not maintain the resolution of your input images if they are above standard definition video resolution. You can use Photoshop after the fact to increase the resolution, but no new information is being added, so the result may look fairly soft.
You could combine multiple images after capturing them, to create compositions that have higher resolution for printing.
You could combine multiple images after capturing them, to create compositions that have higher resolution for printing.
My favorite solution here would just be to photograph the image off of the television (preferably a CRT display) in high resolution. You'll only be able to pass images into the synth via standard definition video (which is typically digitized at 720x480 pixels.) If you photograph the display though, you get the natural glow of the screen and scanlines as part of your image.
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The triads (r, g, b elements) of a CRT are usually finer than the resolution of the image itself, and usually in a staggered or hexagonal pattern. The triads of an LCD are usually in perfect rows with exactly the number of triads as pixels, and a black line between scan lines.
So CRT photos will often blend the image better, though they tend to be softer.
The best photo of a video image is taken using an analog B&W CRT and shooting 3 photos, one with the red, the green, and the blue images and then combining them into the RGB channels in Photoshop. B&W CRTs do not have any pixels on the screen. They are completely analog with the scan lines drawn smoothly across the phosphor.
This is the technique that used to be used to print high resolution computer graphics to film. Except that they used color film and three very pure color filters in front of the lens, combining the three photos in the camera rather than later in Photoshop.
So CRT photos will often blend the image better, though they tend to be softer.
The best photo of a video image is taken using an analog B&W CRT and shooting 3 photos, one with the red, the green, and the blue images and then combining them into the RGB channels in Photoshop. B&W CRTs do not have any pixels on the screen. They are completely analog with the scan lines drawn smoothly across the phosphor.
This is the technique that used to be used to print high resolution computer graphics to film. Except that they used color film and three very pure color filters in front of the lens, combining the three photos in the camera rather than later in Photoshop.