Greetings All,

I guess the title of the thread pretty much says it. My take on handcoloring is that it's the original hybrid photo technique. Now that computers are in the stew, I don't even know all the options. Is it worth a 'hybrid workflow' forum?

Also, I would like move that (suggest) we add 'alternative techniques' to the forums. I don't see any reason we should stay the orphan child of APUG :)

g'day dw

so what is your interest in hand colouring?

i've done a little on the computer, i thought it'd be easier than the 'real' thing, but alas, it's another set of tools to learn

don't be fooled, using the computer to create artworks is no easier than traditional methods

more recently i thought why try to hand colour and make it look like a real photogragh, why not do other techniques such as dry point etching from a photograph and then hand colour the ink print

this could allow all sort of digital image manipulation/editing as well as hand work

Greetings Ray

I handcolor darkroom-printed photos with transparent dyes. I've done this since before decent flatbed scanners were available. BD(Before Digital, of course) I only made one print of any image - with very little hope of sales. It's hard to convince people to pay for twenty hours of work:-) Digital reproduction changed all that and now digital prints of my handcolored photographs are my bread and butter. Today, I no longer think of my digital prints as "reproductions" of anything. They are the final artwork. It's been gratifying to see the purchasing public come along on that concept.

And, as I see it, that brings us to where I think hybridphoto could go. It started out as a 'gray' area - the funny cousin that no one wants to talk about in public. Digital. But photography is so much more than digital vs. analog. Those are just tools. The kind of experimentation/play/art that you've been doing is exactly the kind wide-open-to-anything-photographic conversations I'd love to see here.

Greetings DWRoss,

My experiences are very similar to yours, I love to spend time in a traditional dark room having started my career there. I have always tried to push the envelope so to speak, but have been frustrated by the fact that my creations were limited to a few prints at the time of creation.

Well digital has changed all of that and now I consider a good scanner to be my negative.

Post some work I would like to see what you are up to? Or point me to it.

Sincerely,
Giorgio

I've always wondered how people upload thumbnails into their posts??:confused:

http://dwrphotos.com/Portfolio7/Dawn/Dawn48.jpg

Hi Banana:

Good question. I'm playing here to see if this works: I right clicked on an image on my website and then pasted its URL in the prompt box that popped up when I clicked on the Insert Image button at the top of the message box. Here goes. (but I'm guessing there's a better way, even if this works)

oops! not a thumbnail.

I think this is more like it:

I went to "Go Advanced", then to "Manage Attachments", went back to Photoshop to make an appropriate jpeg, used the 'Browse" button, opened the file and uploaded that. Here goes again:)

Hi GoGo,

The work you've published on your website is beautiful. I've never been a people photographer. Never had the touch. You've definitely got it. Nice, slow-moving landscapes are more my speed.

http://dwrphotos.com/