This is a composite from a Mexico trip. The floating dock, intimate pigs, and cliff with waterfall were all scanned on a Polaroid SprintScan 35 and brought together in Photoshop. Each part had its own layer (and sometimes a layer mask) to provide control over contrast, design, etc. The cliff was actually about 75 feet high so I squashed it down (Image>Effect>Scale) to fit the top part of the composition. The shadow was made with the burn tool on the dock layer.
The enlarged negative was output as a bitmap on an Agfa imagesetter and contact printed on handcoated platinum/palladium.I really like it when my images capture my sense of humor as well as a certain beauty and visual intrigue.
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Dan Burkholder
