Here's the image.
It is a photograph of a small perfume bottle, taken by my husband and processed by both of us. By what process did it arrive at its current state? Here's a hint: there was nothing digital done other than scanning in the final image and adjusting the color to better reflect the original.
Give me your answer in a comment (emailing it to me doesn't count!) by Wednesday, August 8 at 12 midnight PST. I am looking for two specific things that were done to the photograph. I will enter whoever gets those processes into a drawing and pick a random winner. If no one gets both, I will enter whoever gets the one predominant process (there are telltale signs!) into a random drawing. If no one gets it, everyone who guesses will be entered into a random drawing. But someone will get it. There are photographers out there! I know it! :)
Wanna know what you're playing for?
This!
A hammered copper shawl pin from my Designs by Romi site.
Good luck and have a great weekend!!!
well, i have no real photography experience AT ALL.... but i think the image looks really cool.
ReplyDeletei will hazard a guess because i REALLY like the shawl pin. a tea rubbing and then burning the edges? (it's the only thing we ever did to a photo in high school - again just a desperate guess)
An uneducated guess - it looks like it was painted or colored. Like how they took old black and white photos and added color to them after they were developed. It looks antiqued. Now I am really curious about it and am anxious to hear the answer.
ReplyDeletePunkin at Needle to Needle
I am going guess at least one possibility. Did you expose the frame to too much light? I know that over exposure usually produces a negative like appearance. Or at least that's what I have seen done. Also if you smudged the frame with your fingers a little it would leave marks on the film during the development process.
ReplyDeleteThat's my guess.
I think you either "shocked" it by going from a really warm solution to a cold solution or printed it through a screen of mesh or fabric or perhaps sponged it while developing to get the slightly uneven texture.
ReplyDeleteThen hand painted.
Sheesh Romi! Obviously you dipped it in tea and left it in the sun*!!!:)
ReplyDelete*comments from the person who had to have f-stop and shutter speed explained to her EVERY TIME in photography class!
Sepia then sponging.coloring... how's that for someone who knows o about photography but is a scrapbooker at heart?!
ReplyDeleteHmmmmm. Well I love that pin, and I have a lovely knitted shawl that it would be perfect for! I think I am going to guess that you created the image by doing a polaroid transfer process? I think thats what it is called......it looks similar to the ones I've seen. (I hope, I hope)
ReplyDeleteI don't know anything about "real" photography, so I'll guess printed on paper, soaked in tea, then handpainted. Just for fun.
ReplyDeleteI'm just guessing, but did you use a filter? For whoever does win: I bought this pin a few months ago and LOVE it. :)
ReplyDeleteHi Romi,
ReplyDeleteI'm playing that getting tagged game and so I tag you to list 8 random things about yourself then tag 8 others...however I have a feeling you've already done this...if so...disregard this message!
Wow! You have the coolest photo's on your blog. I'm totally clueless, so I won't embarrass myself w/a guess.
ReplyDeleteI will say that your pins are gorgeous and your photo's are a treat for the eyes!
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Here is a total guess.
ReplyDeleteYou overexposed the picture and then wet the photo to smudge the color?
You did a polariod transfer to watercolor paper?
ReplyDeleteMaybe?
Cynthia
hmmmm, weeeellll, I have nooo idea! Maybe you used some kind of gold thing in the batn thing!!! lol!!
ReplyDeleteThis is NOT an educated guess, but I'll say that the photo was given a tea bath and then sponged. (I was going to say lemon and then a sprinkle of salt, but that would be a tequila shot :) ).
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a pastel illustration on rough-textured paper. It's been so long since I took my fancy-techniques photography design class (20 years), I can't begin to guess. But we never did anything that turned out like that!
ReplyDeleteI find it especially attractive because it's a perfume bottle.
Oh man, I wish I could remember something - anything! - from high school photography class. I dunno, was fire involved? It's a beautiful photo, however you got there.
ReplyDeleteIt's a polaroid transfer (where you peel off the emulsion layer) that was somehow solarized... it was transferred onto some kind of textured paper, it seems...
ReplyDeleteWell, definitely something Polaroid, although it looks like an older Polaroid format. Then....Not sure. It almost looks like you peeled off the plastic overlayer of the Polaroid and maybe transfered the emulsion onto paper somehow? Now you have me curious. It has been a long time since I studied photography and I have gotten so lazy with the creative part since I have digital now!
ReplyDeleteThat sure looks like a polaroid image transfer onto watercolor paper..perhaps the colors were touched up also after the transfer?
ReplyDeleteI am sure I am too late, but it is Polaroid image Transfer with Polaroid peel apart film.
ReplyDeleteVery beautiful. A girl in my art program in University did that as a grad study.
O.K. I was so excited that I knew what it was, that I forgot to read the part about two distinct steps. So taken with Polaroid peel apart film, then transferred to a lovely artsy sheet of something like Arches water colour paper (ah—I am remembering printmaking class), then dipped in a weak solution of vinegar to enhance to colour and neutralize the chemicals. Maybe it was taken with a polaroid SX-70 Land camera, if that is the case, then I am sorry I gave mine away.
ReplyDeleteVery fun contest! Art and paper get me really happy.
Sorry but I haven't got the faintest idea. I DO like the photo very much however. I will just look at it and admire it.
ReplyDeletePoloroid process and transfer to water color paper.
ReplyDeletei would say maybe...tea stained and then a short exposure?
ReplyDeleteDid you put some slick paper to a wet Polaroid and let the image transfer? It also has an airbrushed look to my eye.
ReplyDeleteNeat, in any case.
I think it's a polaroid transfer...
ReplyDeleteGosh, I wish I knew something about photograpy!!! I love that pin. How about you ran water over the picture to give it that appearance?
ReplyDeleteI am going to guess - edges torn, some sandpaper rubbing, burned edges?
ReplyDeleteI have absolutely no idea what the processes you used are, but I wanted to tell you what a beautiful shawl pin that is!
ReplyDeleteI know very little about real photography but here goes my guess. It's a black and white photo that's been hand colored and then transferred to paper like watercolor paper. Or I suppose it could have been done in reverse.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a Polaroid transfer to me. Such a fun way to play with slides and photographs. Love the golden hues.
ReplyDeleteI'm SO not an expert, but I'm guessing hand-coloring and some form of antiquing/aging
ReplyDeleteWell, at first glance i was thinking you added the texture by filming it through a nylon stocking, but then it also reminded me of a pinhole camera shot. The edges look like they were done with glass plates....it definatly looks hand painted,hmmmm.....beautiful results!
ReplyDeleteHere's where I make an ass of myself by exposing my lack-o-photography skills! I think it was printed in sepia and then painted by hand. Love the shawl pin!
ReplyDeletea photo of a photo???
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a poloroid transfer, but it could also be a gum print.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to guess pastel colouring.
ReplyDeleteI'm going with the polaroid guess too.
ReplyDeleteI,too, think it's a Polaroid transfer. Looks lovely!
ReplyDeleteSorry, you did ask for two things ... well, firstly the polaroid transfer, and secondly, transfered to canvas, is my guess.
ReplyDeletedid you color it with colored pencils maybe?
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking something with sepia and salt (like when people use salt to texturize their watercolor paintings).
ReplyDeleteIt looks cross-processed, but that's my answer for everything. I know there are two different ways to do it, but that's probably not what you're looking for! I'm eager to find out how it was actually done.
ReplyDeletepolaroid print and... pastels?
ReplyDeleteI am going with glass plate transfer of the negative and then hand colored.
ReplyDeletedid you dunk the photo in tea?
ReplyDeleteMichelle
This is just a guess but I would say you used a flash and focused on the bottle cap.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to echo the group and say it was a Polaroid transfer onto cold-press watercolor paper. Then perhaps abrading the paper more?
ReplyDeleteGosh, I have NO idea how that is done but it is beautiful...It looks like it is photographed through another piece of glass - that magnified the top of the perfume bottle and added a hazy look. Perhaps it somesort of pebbly glass or piece of ice. Ice can magnify a bit. You two are so clever, I really haven't a clue except it is stunning.
ReplyDeleteI am no photographer as you know! I just admire your talent. I will just wait to see what you did to that photo. Great image.