New image-Artery

OK, I finally found something to do with the water tower pics. I'm not 100% pleased with the end results, but I like it enough to say "enough". The text element I used is a little off IMO. I took it from the same book I used in a few other images (True, Passion, and Salvation #3, and maybe one or two others) and it usually adds a lot to the image. Not this time. The book is a replica of a 18th century Encyclopedia Britannica. I suppose I don't need to worry about copyright infringement when I use shots of the pages in my images. That's an incentive to use this book, and not something more current. Plus, the old typesetting of the pages looks really wild. All the "f"s and "s"s look the same. Sucking ftrange ftuss.

More Sureal Digital Photography

I just got my copy of More Surreal Digital Photography. I had two contributions to the book, Invasion and Bear. I didn't think either of those was such a great image, but the editor of the book requested those two specific images from all my others, so I assume those appealed to him the most, so I provided the walk-throughs on how I created the images (I didn't mention how many variations I went through before I ended up with the final versions--giving a walk-through is almost like saying "I meant to do that"). One slight disappointment I have with the end product is that the publisher was supposed to provide a web site with hi-res versions of the original unmanipulated pics, so people who buy the book can download the pics and then try using the walk-throughs on their own to recreate the images. I checked the web site with the files, and they only supplied lo res pics. To me, that seems to make it a pretty useless gesture, because it's pretty tough workiing with lo-res files. But then again, it might keep someone from copying my image into a full-resolution image. I don't know if I'd really care if someone stole either of those images, but I suppose it's still a good thing. Another minor gripe is that they called me "Tony VenGraitis" on the Invasion walk-through, and "Anthony VenGraitis" on Bear. What's up with that?

Anyway, check out the book if you get a chance. It's good stuff.