Scanography: The Ultimate Guide (Abstract Photography)
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- čas přidán 4. 08. 2024
- In this ULTIMATE guide to scanography I’ll teach you everything I know to making scanographs/scanograms, which are unique type of abstract photograph. This video is will break down a heap of tips and tricks to doing scanography that you can take away with you and apply to your own creative image making. Whether you are looking for a lockdown activity or wanting some creative photography ideas for home, scanography is the perfect way to use a scanner to capture amazing and abstract images.
00:00 Introduction to scanography
01:06 JPEG vs TIFF and DPI
02:55 How to clean your scanner
03:56 Different scanning movements to achieve crazy effects
06:10 DPI and movement
07:20 Perspective and depth with 3D objects
08:40 Controlling background brightness
09:46 Different scanner types - CCD vs CIS
12:01 Simple editing tricks
13:14 Outro
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My gear:
Epson v39 (CIS scanner)
Epson v550 (CCD scanner)
Thank you so much!
my friends and I finished a college project with the help of your video!! great work man
Awesome stuff, glad I could help!
Thank you so much for this video. This is a great introduction to this type of printmaking/ abstract photography and it’s so hard to find with similar key words popping up more frequently! Much appreciated, saving this for later!
My pleasure, glad you’ve got something out of it :)
Thanks for making this video! This is exactly what I was looking for. The perfect amount of depth into the topic as well
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it!
This is so cool! I've always been intrigued by slit scan photography, and this is an awesome alternative!
Slit-Scan is mega cool. I’ll be doing a video at some point expanding from this and building a basic camera from a scanner. Awesome potential for interesting photos.
It helped me a lot! Great video 🖤
Happy to help!
I really like your Idea and all the info you provided. I appreciate your time + making it easy to understand.
My pleasure, glad I could help :)
Amazing video! Helped me so much with my assignments for visual arts
Awesome! So glad it was useful :)
this was such a helpful video, tysm!!
My pleasure!
Very informative and well presented. Thank you. Going to try this on my Epson v800.
Cheers John. If you want to protect your more expensive scanner a bit more you can also look at getting a thin sheet of plexiglass to place on top of the flatbed. As it’s a CCD sensor the gap this makes shouldn’t be a real problem and your images should still be fairly sharp.
Good stuff, man. Thanks!
Cheers!
This is a cool video. Very little content about these on CZcams. Cool. Loved it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing video!! Thank you so much, I've been meaning to try my hand at scanography for some projects and I had no idea where to start and this was the most simple and comprehensive video I've found!!
Glad you enjoyed it :)
Amazing video ❤
Cheers!
Thank you so much
My pleasure!
The interesting thing that i figured out is, when the object not touching the glass or bed, the color will recorded as grayscale. It's also happen in obscura camera that use flatbed scanner.
Nice find! It's interesting how for the CIS scanners they lose colour like this. I've never been able to find an exact answer as to why, so if you do find out please let me know!
May I suggest one tip, since I'm an active scanograph...
Instead of recording in tif file, you should record in bitmap file (.bmp). A bitmap file is a raw file. Or, by ancestry rights, a raw file is a bitmap file with added Metadata.
If you record in bitmap file, you will have all the flexibility of a raw file. The bitmap files produced by Epson scanner can take a huge amount of editing before becoming burned or abstract.
By the way, in the video your scanner seems to produce no light at all. How do you do that?
Tif files are theoretically uncompressed, but only retain details that are visible to the eye.
Bitmap file (and it's descendant, the raw file) are uncompressed and retain all and every details, including the details invisible to the human eye.
In a lightroom competition between a Bitmap file and a tif file, the Bitmap will win, since it is possible to recover way way more details in the shadows, the black and the lights.
The Bitmap file is your Epson scanner's raw file
Smudges and dust marks on the scanner actually add some aesthetic to your photos
Yeah you can really play this up too!
What ccd scanner under 200$ would you recommend?
I know I'm a bit late on this reply (sorry!), but your best bet will be to pick up a second hand Epson V500/600 series.
What good/budget scanner i can find please?
The epson v39/Canon Lide series are good, small scanners and can be turned into cameras, which is pretty cool! I often recommend to my budget conscience students to just get a cheap printer/scanner combo which can be found for the $40 mark.
My current scanner produces lines across the image. Is this is the same for other budget scanners?
@@anneliesesullivan-wilson1038 Potentially, it's been a while since I've used something really cheap. However I don't notice any lines with either of the ones I use in this video.
Does it matter what resolution the image is taken with? If a higher resolution scan produces a cleaner image it would be preferable to spend a little more for a more suitable scanner. Thanks
@@anneliesesullivan-wilson1038 A higher resolution image will result in a less pixelated image. If the lines are being produced due to some issue with the hardware, then increasing the resolution won't fix this problem.