manipulations....

[Emil Schildt]

Its funny how we both have the same "stuff" - skulls, old dolls, stuffed birds, bare branches, and chicks. In fact I just bought a stuff crow from ebay. Old clocks can be spooky too. Right now I'm working on some nudes with large (dried) insects on them.

"Vanitas" items...

gotta love them..

[MMELVIS]

allright then...

This one, I distressed the negative with the #usual# stuff (scissor/tape and so on), but the main manipulation was made using bleach/re-development and fix on the background...

I used a small butterfly brush and then - after the bleach, I added the developer and fix randomly on the bleached areas - with out rinsing in between - interesting "fights" between the chemicals gave this image:

I find this image to be unusually pleasing. The knowledge you have a various processes do more than just distress an image. The hard lines going through the image draw your eyes away from the models causing the viewer to actually explore the image.

[Kirk Gittings]

Am I the only one?

Joel Peter Witkin

[Emil Schildt]

Joel Peter Witkin

as a member here......?

[Emil Schildt]

I find this image to be unusually pleasing. The knowledge you have a various processes do more than just distress an image. The hard lines going through the image draw your eyes away from the models causing the viewer to actually explore the image.

thank you!

[paulr]

I commend you with parting ways with the straight photographers, who would have you scratch and sandpaper that nice young woman instead.

[Tom J McDonald]

Gandolfi, I find the first one fantastic.

[Tom J McDonald]

Joel Peter Witkin

Kirk, I got a laugh out of this: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gbnHctCUxX.../s1600/021.jpg

I'm not sure if that was the intention of the photographer.

[Domingo A. Siliceo]

Very stimulant work, Emil.

I prefer the first image, though I see some unnatural light in model's face.

I should try this scissor/tap fix method in one of my many useless/ugly negatives...

[bob carnie]

from my Heavy Metal Series