11-23-11 – Triptych Portraits – Its not photography, its Farktography

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October 29, 2011 at 6:15 pm #2455

Elsinore
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Take three different photos of different parts of the same subject and combine them in a vertical or horizontal triptych for a single fark-sized entry. As usual, you can submit three entries. Difficulty – The subject must be alive.

Theme suggestion courtesy of U-Man!

October 29, 2011 at 7:15 pm #41897

gambitsgirl
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woah

October 29, 2011 at 8:41 pm #41898

Yugoboy
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Difficulty – The subject must be alive.

woah

Yeah, I can see where that might be a game-changer for you 😆

October 29, 2011 at 8:50 pm #41899

gambitsgirl
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Difficulty – The subject must be alive.

woah

Yeah, I can see where that might be a game-changer for you 😆

OMG ahahahahahaha I just shot water out my nose. 😆 😆 😆

If I pour water on his ashes will he reanimate like a sea monkey?

(I don’t have an image editor is the issue terd head. this will make me have to get one).

go to the gallery. I just posted photos of my daughter who I’ve, amazingly, remembered to feed and water everyday for 12 years so she’s still alive…. so far.

October 29, 2011 at 8:59 pm #41900

Kestrana
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GIMP is a very good free image editor: http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

October 29, 2011 at 9:06 pm #41901

gambitsgirl
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GIMP is a very good free image editor: http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

thank you! Downloading it now to try. I use to use Photoshop for work but that’s been about 12 years. Can’t afford the luxury now. I use iPhoto to crop and such.

October 29, 2011 at 9:15 pm #41902

Kestrana
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If you’ve used Photoshop before, then GIMP should be very familiar for you. It’s on a less powerful scale, but it allows you to use many of the same editing options.

October 29, 2011 at 10:12 pm #41903

gambitsgirl
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got it. now back to the mommy world before I have time to play with it

October 29, 2011 at 11:45 pm #41904

aspidites
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So I went out and did a search for some triptych examples.

These are two of what came up.

Is this what you are talking about?

October 30, 2011 at 5:46 am #41905

Kestrana
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From the original discussion on this theme U-Man had listed this artist’s work as his inspiration: http://www.flickr.com/photos/theblackstar/sets/72157626117942754/

Not that you have to use that same photo arrangement, but I’m thinking more like the second image you posted and not like the first, but ultimately it’s U-Man‘s clarification to make.

October 30, 2011 at 3:34 pm #41906

Yoyo
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When I hear “triptych” I think of Monet. http://www.nelson-atkins.org/art/Exhibitions/monet/index.cfm (The Nelson is reason enough to live in Kansas City. Barbeque is just an added bonus.)
Am I on the right track? Plants are alive, right? Or is the pond not alive?

Bosch comes in a close second. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights
Are demons alive or undead?

October 30, 2011 at 5:31 pm #41907

gambitsgirl
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ok so I took Gimp (thank you Kestrana) and the halloween photos I just took of my daughter and did this. So now I have to figure out how to do three elements cause that’s two

am I headed in the right direction? It doesn’t have to be seamless right?

October 30, 2011 at 5:34 pm #41908

Yugoboy
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I’m guessing that with the wide range of participants, and that most probably don’t come in here regularly, there’s a good chance that tolerance for a significant variety of interpretations will be necessary.

October 30, 2011 at 5:58 pm #41909

U-Man
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Difficulty – The subject must be alive.

woah

Yeah, I can see where that might be a game-changer for you 😆

That’s funny stuff right there.

October 30, 2011 at 6:32 pm #41910

U-Man
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I’m open to suggestions for this one.

As Kestrana points out, this guy ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/theblackstar/sets/72157626117942754/ ) was the inspiration for my theme suggestion. I initially envisioned all portrait type triptychs with vertical or horizontal panels with each panel containing a part of the whole.

After my brain was primed to recognize triptychs, I began to see them all over the place. Many of the trip’s I found and like are of inanimate things. And many use a different arrangement of the panels.

For example –
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnewkirk_photography/2834595769/lightbox/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andersdenkend/2854049219/lightbox/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/craigwk/4274284035/lightbox/

I do not want to include trip’s like the following because I want to push our community (myself included) toward something new. I don’t want to be able search the files and throw three photos of somebody into one triptych.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deej13/4205828376/lightbox/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dannybeattie/5540182316/lightbox/

I also want to avoid this type – which seems to be a single photo cut into three panels.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chibear89/4892537432/lightbox/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/parlicoot/379837885/lightbox/

However, I think these might fit in an acceptable grey-zone. They show three distinctly different parts of a whole.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/67028238@N05/6214141277/lightbox/ (maybe)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37308682@N02/4613438424/lightbox/

So. Where I’m at after that session of ‘thinking out loud’ is here…the triptych should have three panels showing different parts of something that together show us the whole. I think I want to include inanimate objects.

I understand that too many or too fuzzy boundaries can lead to problems. We have time to tweak this one. What do you guys think?
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