Scanography
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Scanography, or "scanner photography", is the process of producing artistic digital images by means of an ordinary flat-bed image scanner.The term itself can be written "scannography" with two "n" as it comes from "scanner". Whereas a flatbed scanner is generally intended to be used for the reproduction of two-dimensional images, scanography typically involves imaging objects such as people, objects, plants or anything that can be laid on a flatbed scanner ! Images produced by these means can have resolutions of up to one hundred megapixels. The results of this procedure can be similar to those achieved by macro photography The fact that with a scanner you obtain no perspective, no real light source (the light is uniformely everywhere) and no large depth of field, makes it very different from photography. It gives a vision of the world that the eyes is not used to. Therefore it is something original. Typically, a graphics editor such as Adobe Photoshop or The Gimp is used in conjunction with the scanner. Moreover, the lid of the scanner is often removed, resulting in a velvety-black background.
