I recently obtained a scanner and decided to try scanning everything I could find within my room, including myself, this created some really interesting portraits as I wanted to experiment with different shapes and forms. This might not be part of the ‘found’ brief but, it is something that I thought I should document as it is something I have experimented with.
The depth of field you can achieve using a scanner is quite phenomenal as demonstrated through some of these images. I personally like this sort of look and feel, but taking one image using this technique is pretty time consuming. To get an image that has a better PPI (pixels per inch), the scan needs to be slower and this creates distortions if photographing a live subject.
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