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Nautilus 69, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger.

This is a photograph of a mildly Photoshopped nautilus shell combined with a rotated version of itself.

The mild Photoshopping consists of blending the original with a LAB color inversion of itself using the Multiply blending mode at a low opacity and a layer mask (created as described here) to eliminate the black background of the inversion.

I have a feeling that I’m going to be photographing this nautilus some more!

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4 Responses to “Nautilus 69”

  1. Photoblog 2.0: » Photoblog 2.0 Archive: » Nautilus on Black Says:
    January 29th, 2007 at 10:50 am

    [...] Nautilus on Black 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This version of the Nautilus shell uses Photoshop to combine a digital photograph with a high-resolution flat-bed scan (the [...]

  2. Photoblog 2.0: » Photoblog 2.0 Archive: » Spirals Says:
    May 19th, 2007 at 6:44 pm

    [...] 8217;t blogged this photo composite made by combining photographs of the front and back of Nautilus shells, along with a photo of a Nautilus cross-section. I placed each of the three photos on [...]

  3. Photoblog 2.0: » Photoblog 2.0 Archive: » Nautilus in Black and White Says:
    March 28th, 2008 at 12:53 pm

    [...] story: Nautilus 69, Spirals, Resistance to Spirals is [...]

  4. Photoblog 2.0: » Photoblog 2.0 Archive: » Spiral into Sunflower Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 12:09 pm

    [...] Some other spirals on my blog: Labyrinth, Resistance to Spirals Is Futile, Spiral in a Mallow, After the Wedding, Nautilus in Black and White, Nautilus on Black, Nautilus 69. [...]

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