A little Valentine's Day image featuring the super cool Nekromistress.
I wanted to try and make a strong color statement - something along the lines of the work of Brian DeMint / Eyeworks of Joplin, Missouri.
I'm interested in trying to simulate things like tintypes using digital techniques.
I think the best way to do it is not to just use Photoshop tricks, nut to model and tecture a surface and render it in Maxwell, paying special attention to surface textures and materials and reflectivity.
Before I can do that, however, I need t have a good look at a few of these things. I want to hold them in my hand, flex them, scratch them, see how they reflect light.
I bought a few on eBay. Surprisingly cheap for small ones. I am scanning them on flickr in this set: Tintypes
I'll update this blog entry as my experiments in this area progress...
For my daughter's 6th grade Science Fair experiment she chose to explore the Inverse Square Law as it relates to light falloff. Technically the ISL only relates to point light sources, and it will 'fail' when the lights are not point light sources, but just how badly does it fail?
Any light is approximately a point light if you get far away from it. So how accurate is the ISL in real world cases? I was actually pretty curious to find out, myself.
So without further ado, here are the results of our experiments, courtesy of my 12-year-old daughter...
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