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16-09-2007, 07:49 PM
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| | | Kaleidoscopes
I've been playing around in Paintshop Pro building kaleidoscopes from some of my images by cutting out a triangle, copying it, rotating it and pasting it back in again. The results can be quite interesting and often surprising. Here's one of a reed... 
And this is one of a bluebell... 
For this one I used a hoverfly on a field bindweed flower... 
It can turn a pretty ordinary image like this black-headed gull... 
into something quite beautiful (well I think so anyway!)... 
The trick is to get the right angle at the apex of the triangle so that an exact number of triangles will form a complete circle.
However for this next one I didn't use a computer. I trained 48 speckled bush crickets from birth to recreate Busby Berkeley dance routines and then photographed them at it...  
Dave P.
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16-09-2007, 08:08 PM
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| | | Re: Kaleidoscopes
I love the hoverfly and cricket head one |
16-09-2007, 08:51 PM
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| | | Re: Kaleidoscopes
These are all excellent! Something I would never had considered doing, until now!
Well done Dave! |
16-09-2007, 09:24 PM
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| | | Re: Kaleidoscopes
I like them Dave something original and different. The hoverfly and bush crickets are excellent
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16-09-2007, 09:31 PM
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| | | Re: Kaleidoscopes
Great shots Dave, something totally different....I can see a new craze starting as people have a go at creating their own shots like these
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16-09-2007, 10:05 PM
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| | | Re: Kaleidoscopes
Quite fascinating, love the Reed. 
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17-09-2007, 06:20 AM
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| |  Re: Kaleidoscopes
Really clever stuff. Nice to see an artistic use of photoshop that has great potential.
David |
17-09-2007, 09:21 PM
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| | | Re: Kaleidoscopes
GREAT
For me the bluebells are the best, but I like them, those
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17-09-2007, 09:32 PM
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| | | Re: Kaleidoscopes
A great idea,
The cricket by far has to be my fav
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17-09-2007, 09:39 PM
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Those are well-trained crickets! Lovely effects | | | |
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