Afflicted with cabin fever, I went on a road trip to see some fabulous botanical images made with a flatbed scanner. That's right, just like the one in your home or office. Flowers, vegetables and other plants and parts of plants in three-dimensional luminous color--they were wonderful! And I'm sharing them with you in this blog post.
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Scanned snowdrops
April 12, 2007 – Posted in: Flowers on the BrainMany people who commented on the Katinka Matson post encouraged me to try the technique of obtaining images of flowers by scanning them with a flatbed scanner (an HP Scanjet 2400) myself. So I did. Even though it remains cold and we get some flurries every day, the snowdrops are slowly going over. Many of [...]
Katinka Matson: A new twist on botanical images
April 5, 2007 – Posted in: Flowers on the BrainKatinka Matson does not photograph flowers--she scans them. I don't know how she manages to not flatten them, or how she gets a black background, but they look almost three dimensional, and the colors are exceptionally vibrant. Besides the front page, check out the artist's bio page (which has an explanation of her technique) and [...]
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