Transform da Vinci's artwork through a filter
By Rey mos
5 Jun 2009
I AM ONE OF THE FANS of Leonardo's artwork. I had the chance to visit his collection at Louvre Museum in Vatican Museum (Rome) last year. It is impossible for me to have one of them, so I just bought their replicas in a print form.
On the other hand, taking JPG community challenge to create a filter, I decided to search some interesting things inside my rented flat. Two days ago, I finally found it, one of the common kitchen gadgets - the coffee maker! This typical kitchen ware has the glass pot or container, commonly known as "caraffe" which could provide a different perspective of my subjects: the big posters (1m X 0.5m) of Leonardo's masterpiece - from Mona Lisa to the Last Supper.
Since these are big posters, I was more interested on the details of the artwork in terms of the subject. For instance, I focused my filtering gadget towards the face of Mona Lisa and main character (Jesus) of the Last Supper.
The transformation of these artwork is more significant when caraffe is closely focused to the subject. The distance from the carafee to the poster is around 4 to 6 inches. Major changes or disfigurations could be done by moving caraffe closer to the poster.
Please note that I placed the camera at the opening of the glass container and the flat bottom part of the container is facing towards the poster. No flash to avoid whiteness of the shot caused by the light that bounced back from the clear glass.
In particular, I was surprised to see the transformation of Mona Lisa to a young girl, including her enigmatic smile that hypnotise everyone. Adjusting the position of carafee (with a slight angle) towards the poster somehow allow changes the iconic smile of Mona Lisa.
It is indeed an extreme makeover of da Vinci's masterpiece in different portraits.
I did also experiment to other subjects, including my favourite pile of pocket books, my painted mask, lighted candle and landscape posters. The results showed a "heat wave" or bird eye's effect to the subject.
4 responses
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Thomas Brandenburg gave props (5 Jun 2009):
As when I first saw the photo, I was impressed, and it was nice you took the time to do an article about the process as well
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Mei Teng Wong said (6 Jun 2009):
Reymos, I am curious with how you got these interesting shots? What did you use?
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eithne mythen gave props (8 Jun 2009):
Fantastic idea and fantastic results, well done..
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John Linton gave props (8 Jun 2009):
Hell...Yeah! It rocks!
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