Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Back to the Christmas ball - this time with two. You'll need some kind of very narrow stand and some double-sided adhesive tape behind them to stand one firmly on top of the other - then shoot away! Could get some interesting reflections, too. On 12.04.2018 22:36, Douglas Sharp wrote: > Don't know whether it would work, but? try something > spherical like a Christmas tree ball resting on a > mirror and crop the image at top and bottom. > > Or just photograph the ball, halve the image, > duplicate it,reverse one half as a mirror-image and > merge the two. > > Cheers > Douglas > > On 12.04.2018 19:15, John McMaster wrote: >> Or just do it all in PS..... >> >> john >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: LUG >> [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org] >> On Behalf Of Don Dory via LUG >> Sent: 12 April 2018 18:00 >> To: Leica Users Group >> Cc: Don Dory >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Book cover design or photo >> >> Have you considered some glass spheres and a lot of >> photoshop. Photograph a glass sphere on the >> background of your choice; do a hard crop so that it >> is the hemisphere that you want; copy and flip in PS >> then using layers place them as you imagine.? Using >> selection tools select just the spheres then put >> those as the first layer with what works for you >> cover as the second layer. >> >> All the best. >> >> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 12:50 PM, John McMaster >> <john at mcmaster.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> The only round bottomed things we have in our >>> kitchen are bain-maries >>> for chocolate, I cannot think of any other >>> hemisphere based items as >>> they are of little use.? Maybe something with a >>> hemispherical top inverted..... >>> >>> john >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: LUG >>> [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org] >>> On >>> Behalf Of Peter Cheyne via LUG >>> Sent: 12 April 2018 10:06 >>> To: lug >>> Cc: Peter Cheyne >>> Subject: [Leica] Book cover design or photo >>> >>> Dear LUGgers, >>> >>> I've written a book that wants a cover. I have an >>> idea, but can't find >>> the materials to execute it. The book is academic, >>> to be titled >>> *Coleridge's Contemplative Philosophy*. My cover >>> idea is of an image >>> of one hemisphere, inverted, on top of another, >>> i.e. a bowl facing >>> upward, atop a bowl facing downward. Here are some >>> rough sketches I made: >>> >>> https://flic.kr/p/24ZJpyo >>> >>> My initial thought was to find two matching >>> hemispheres, and arrange >>> them as in the sketches, photographed against a >>> white backdrop, with a >>> clean, modernist, minimalist aesthetic. Two >>> hemispheric glass bowls, >>> or iron ones, or brass, or some other material. But >>> I can find no such things, so far. >>> (The concept, by the way, is of the higher, >>> enlightened understanding >>> turned upward, towards what Coleridge called >>> reason, spirit, and >>> ideas, with the lower hemisphere turned towards the >>> things of the >>> senses.) >>> >>> Does anyone have access to such objects? If you >>> could photograph them >>> in a way suitable for a book cover, I could pay. >>> Not a great deal, but >>> around >>> $200 is possible. The publisher might possibly be >>> able to match that >>> too, so between $200 and $400 is possible. You'd >>> also get a hardcover >>> copy of the book. My previous was published by >>> Oxford University >>> Press, and I'm hoping this one will be too. >>> >>> Also, if anyone here is a graphic designer, and >>> thinks they could >>> nicely execute a graphic image, rather than a >>> photo, developed from >>> the idea in my sketches, that would be an >>> interesting option too. >>> >>> Best wishes, >>> >>> Peter >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for >>> more information >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for >>> more information >>> >> >> >> -- >> Don >> don.dory at gmail.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for >> more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for >> more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for > more information >