mattpettengill.net

Archive for the 'creative' Category

Submission Selected as Found Magazine’s Find of the Day

Friday, July 18th, 2008

I checked my email this morning and received a message from Found Magazine that an old photograph I submitted was selected as the “find of the day” on their website. My “Find”, a picture I found in a crate at a used furniture sale, will be displayed on the front page of their website for the entire day on July 18th. Check it out!

UPDATE: My submission is now permanently linked here:

http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/4268

I submitted this to them over a year ago, and was very surprised when I received their email informing me that it was selected.

More about found magazine here:

Found Magazine on Wikipedia

Found Magazine Website

Posted in creative, personal | No Comments »

Bullet-Time Light Graffiti

Friday, February 8th, 2008

In a previous post I wrote about a group of Dutch artists who used multiple long exposures images to create animated light graffiti.

Well, a group from Brooklyn, NY, Graffiti Research Lab (GRL), has taken this concept and applied a different process to create 3D light graffiti. Instead of using a single camera and multiple exposures to create an animation, they used multiple cameras to take exposures of the same scene from multiple angles. The result is "bullet time" style effect, as was first widely seen in the film The Matrix.

A detailed review of how they accomplished this task is available on the popular DIY / Hacking website Instructables. Many pictures, and the final results, are provided there. GRL developed this project in response to one of the challenges posted on Instructables, and GRL has released their how-to instructions under a creative commons license.

Doing light graffiti seems to be a popular trend among artists and technology oriented people (geeks) right now. This should not be a surprise to anyone. At its core, all creative endeavors (the arts) are based around the tools and technologies that people use to create. These tools are is as simple as pencil or complex as a modern supercomputer, and everything in between. When new technologies appear, it’s an opportunity to for artists to experiment with new creative forms, or apply new techniques and styles to established artistic practices. For example, light graffiti would not be possible (or at least prohibitively time-consuming and expensive) without the features that are present on modern digital cameras. It’s the technologies that make new forms of art possible, but none of it would be possible without the creative mind of an artist.

Posted in Photography, creative, digital | No Comments »

Photoshop Class is Over

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Fall is over, and another class is under my belt. This semester I took a class in Photoshop at UMA here in Augusta. It was a fun class, very helpful, and I got to see the work of some very talented people who were also in the class. This was a valuable experience for me, as I learned how the features in Photoshop can be used by photographers to simply make photographs look better, or create works of digital art completely from scratch.

I had some experience with Photoshop at U-Maine as an undergrad, but that was more graphic design focused, and the classes in which I used it did not go into the level of detail that this class did. My my self education in Photoshop was, I came to find out, quite limited; the direction the class provided pointed me to many tools that I will now be using quite often.

Thanks to Sarah Sutter, the professor of the class, for showing us a little but of everything, answering questions, and giving us some fun assignments.

Here are a few of the images I created or worked on as a part of the class. Click for a larger view: