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Scan Your Garden en Plein Air

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Instructor: Patri Feher

This is an advanced class focused on setting up an outdoor scanning studio. When capturing garden specimens outside in the open air the sun creates backlighting. Instead of a studio black background the background will be blue (on an uncloudy blue sky day), and varying shades of gray-blue to indigo as the sun sets. A cloudy day will produce a white, light gray or even pink background. Around noon the specimens are rendered with translucency- later on in the day the opacity is restored. The effects possible include delicate, watercolor-like captures and organic abstractions that appear more like paintings than photography- entirely in-scanner, without Photoshop manipulation!

Scan Your Garden: Introduction

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Instructor: Patri Feher

Your ordinary flatbed scanner is a camera with a macro lens! It will allow you to make sensual “Georgia O’Keeffeesque” visions of living specimens at a resolution so high that the 1:1 life size image can be enlarged to fill an oversize canvas. Use your full color or monochrome digitized scan as a “photo realistic” composition or as the source image for an enhanced interpretation or as a study for impressionistic painting or a scientific botanical illustration.

This workshop focuses on capturing the most challenging three-dimensional subject matter- living botanical specimens. Scan them individually or as a “bouquet” in natural poses. While scanning a daisy is a no-brainer, try a German Iris, a Casablanca lily or a complex arrangement of multiple stems!