Raygun Gothic

Jan 19 2012

Lamia ‘It’s been many a year since I let my infatuations manifest in some artistic way, but so powerful was my reaction to the lamia - who I first learned of in Laurell K. Hamilton’s Circus of the Damned - that I thought I’d give photomanipulation a try. This is the result - two nights of dabbling with liquify filters, blending and lighting. It’s based entirely upon stock gleaned from DeviantART, with credits as follows:’ Human: Art Nudes A7 by Marcus J. Ranum Snake: free use Background: Old Dark Room by Anne Willems

Lamia

‘It’s been many a year since I let my infatuations manifest in some artistic way, but so powerful was my reaction to the lamia - who I first learned of in Laurell K. Hamilton’s Circus of the Damned - that I thought I’d give photomanipulation a try. This is the result - two nights of dabbling with liquify filters, blending and lighting. It’s based entirely upon stock gleaned from DeviantART, with credits as follows:’

Jun 30 2011

The Chapel Lodge ‘One of Basingstoke’s few impressive sights: a delightful building tucked away behind the railway station, which I passed on the way to a pub stand-up night. It is the Cemetery Lodge, which stands at the entrance to Basingstoke’s Holy Ghost Chapel grounds. To my shame I have never visited it before; looking at what little information I found about it online, I think I shall have to correct this soon. I mean, heck - the fact a woman was buried alive here is local legend!’ PRINT AVAILABLE

The Chapel Lodge

‘One of Basingstoke’s few impressive sights: a delightful building tucked away behind the railway station, which I passed on the way to a pub stand-up night. It is the Cemetery Lodge, which stands at the entrance to Basingstoke’s Holy Ghost Chapel grounds.

To my shame I have never visited it before; looking at what little information I found about it online, I think I shall have to correct this soon. I mean, heck - the fact a woman was buried alive here is local legend!’

PRINT AVAILABLE

Jun 07 2011

BBC Television Centre, taken on a rather dull and overcast day which - to my mind - begged for some filtering. [Print available]

London’s Paddington Station, taken on the same day. [Print available]

May 06 2011

Leeds Corn Exchange (Tilt Shift Experiment): I’ve come across a few tilt-shift photographs lately, and the medium fascinates me, so when I StumbledUpon a tutorial for mocking this effect up in Photoshop, I thought I’d give it a whirl. I’ve used one of the few photographs I’ve taken from a higher vantage point: Leeds Corn Exchange in November, 2006. I reckon I must have been stood outside its quite respectable gothwear shop when I took this photo - its name escapes me. My guess is that the effect is much more pronounced in street scenes, where the enhanced sheen on cars in particular can really lend to that uncanny feeling, of looking upon a model. Still, I enjoyed the process, and I thought I might as well share my result. Pointers are definitely welcome!

Leeds Corn Exchange (Tilt Shift Experiment):

I’ve come across a few tilt-shift photographs lately, and the medium fascinates me, so when I StumbledUpon a tutorial for mocking this effect up in Photoshop, I thought I’d give it a whirl. I’ve used one of the few photographs I’ve taken from a higher vantage point: Leeds Corn Exchange in November, 2006. I reckon I must have been stood outside its quite respectable gothwear shop when I took this photo - its name escapes me.

My guess is that the effect is much more pronounced in street scenes, where the enhanced sheen on cars in particular can really lend to that uncanny feeling, of looking upon a model. Still, I enjoyed the process, and I thought I might as well share my result. Pointers are definitely welcome!

(Source: sinnyo.deviantart.com)