Studio39Designs

Photographic Digital Art

I’ve recently started playing around with creating what I’m calling photographic digital art.  It’s a way to take my photographs to a new level, and present them in a totally different way.  Here are some of my initial results –

Brother Albert

This piece has the image of one of the deserted buildings on Johnson Mesa as its base.  The other element is a vintage postcard that I put in as a base.  I blended the 2 layers (postcard and image) to create this sort of surreal effect.

 

FEB 14 1911

This piece gets its name from the date shown on the vintage postcard that is the base.  The image is an old deserted homestead that I created a sort of vintage effect with.  I again blended the layers and then added a cool effect called a light leak, using Photoshop Elements.  I thought it gave the entire piece the feel of a photo taken with an old camera that did, in fact, have a light leak (that’s what did in my first 35mm camera).

 

The Story

A couple of weeks ago, we were in the semi-ghost town of Los Ojos, New Mexico, and I got a great image of the old deserted police station there.  I took that image and converted it to a black & white image and then blended it with a vintage handwritten page.  I thought of all the stories that probably were told in that old station many years ago.  I then added a few elements to add to the dark feel of this piece. 

 

The Birth of History

This is probably the most complex piece that I worked on.  It actually has three of my images in it – an image of grey clouds that I used as some background texture, the small deserted cabin that is not far from our home and one of my favorite subjects, and an image of a spider web woven among the pine tree branches just outside our back patio.  I added to that an old birth certificate, and blended all the pieces together using Photoshop Elements.  I then added some skeleton keys, just because I imagine that those would be the type of keys used to unlock the doors of the deserted cabin.  The name came from my thoughts as to the history of the cabin, combined with the birth certificate.

Enjoy!