If you have a scanner at home, put it to use not just to scan documents and old photographs, but also to create art! Photograph-like images can be produced using a flat-bed scanner. Your scanner can be used to create great close-up shots with stunning beauty. This is known as ‘Scanography'(also known as ‘scanner art’ and ‘scanner photography). Scanography is photographing without a camera by using a scanner to create hyper-real images. Making art by using scanner is accessible and ready to go. You do not have to buy the fancy camera or expensive material for making art.
You can push your scanner to its limit, use your imagination and create beautiful macro-photography with stunning realism and make your work stand-out.
But, fine art Scanography requires a much broader skill-set than just basic scanner operation. To create works of art one must often use devices to secure subjects into place. I use a variety of these devices including but not limited to scientific clip stands, weights, tape, plastic bags .....I think you get the idea. Composition is tricky because you have to imagine that you are actually laying beneath the glass platen looking up at your subject. It requires a certain ability to imagine the subject from that angle and create the vision by building it from front to back in layers.
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