2. Scanography
• spelled scannography more commonly
referred to as scanner photography, is the
process of capturing digitized images of
objects for the purpose of creating
printable art using a flatbed "photo" scanner
3. • The idea is to think of the scanner bed as your
viewfinder and set up the shot...You can use
food, leaves, found objects, etc. or anything
else you can think of...
5. • Scanners differ significantly
from digital camera in many areas.
• the optical resolution of a flatbed
scanner can exceed 5000 pixels
per inch (200 pixels per mm).
• a letter sized image would be 134
megapixels in size.
• The depth of field of most
scanners is very limited, usually no
more than half an inch (12 mm),
but the built-in light source
provides excellent sharpness, color
saturation, and unique shadow
effects.
6. • Scanners convert printed materials such as
book pages and photographs into digital
information that can be used on a computer.
While most scanners require such materials to
be thin and flat, flatbed scanners allow the
use of three-dimensional objects such as
books.
8. • You put your favorite objects on the plate and
arrange them in some way that pleases you.
* Just be careful not to scratch the glass in case you
are working with some hard edgy object.
9. • putting a piece of cloth over your object
becomes part of the composition, in the role
of (hopefully) matching background.
• A black cloth is pretty safe, it matches just
about anything.
10. • The quality of the illumination you get from a
flatbed scanner is very special.
• Since the object is illuminated by a long strip of
light traveling across the glass plate, it is bathed
in a soft, diffused light which can’t quite be
reproduced by other methods.
• If you want to really get into it, you can play with
adding extra light sources that shine on your
objects from the side.
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15. Assignment
• Come out with experimental piece titled ’self
reflection’
• 6" x 8" at 240dpi ( not lower)
• Black & white OR color
• Prepare in JPG file
• Prepare rationale write up before proceed
with the execution
