Wallpaper experimentation

katsh · 2012-08-04 20:22:40

umm some of these are fucking awesome. esp the one that seems to be a hospital corridor

vlahonick · 2012-08-06 07:56:14

nice cool

Bloodstar · 2012-08-23 06:59:56

none wrote:

umm some of these are fucking awesome. esp the one that seems to be a hospital corridor

Ha, thanks! In a way, it's my favorite (the atmosphere in that one is... ridiculous), but at the same time it's almost too weird to me nowadays due to the things going on around the time I did that one. Bleh.

Two new ones!

Failed attempt at taking a clear picture of the moon.

But you know what? I toyed with reducing its colors, and... I got something I actually liked. Sort of abstract in a way. Figured I'd roll with it, since at the time my other three candidates weren't really yielding nice results. (One of them made it into a wallpaper, and I'm still waffling on the other one for the time being.

This one would suck at 16 colors, honestly, so I gave it a four-color palette. This one's actually custom, too, since... the standard palette I use wouldn't really fit it much, and I'm kinda getting bored with it at the moment anyway. Not sure how many will like this one, but eh.

All resolutions from 640x480 to 2880x1800 // DA link

Just a field nearby... taken from the car. There's actually a cemetery in the distance (and across the street from the field, even, on the resolutions it can be seen on).

I tried to take a picture of this once before. It was a better picture, atmosphere-wise, but unfortunately my camera decided to take it in 640x480. I couldn't even cover half the usual resolutions in that unless I wanted to quadruple pixels again... and that's bad for a couple common resolutions.

Busy field? Tons of grass. I don't know, I felt awful when it came time to name the thing.

All resolutions from 640x480 to 2880x1800 // DA link

vicshrike · 2012-08-23 07:10:14

Brilliant moon stuff Bloodstar, but meh I am already a fan of your pics... so maybe my comments do not count anymore?

Bloodstar · 2012-08-23 07:25:27

vicshrike wrote:

Brilliant moon stuff Bloodstar, but meh I am already a fan of your pics... so maybe my comments do not count anymore?

Good god that was quick.

Of course they count! :P I take all the comments I can get! I'm actually kinda surprised about the moon one - people seem a lot more receptive to that one judging by comments I've gotten and the number of views it's gotten on DA compared to the field one.

The fun thing about the moon one, too, is how utterly tiny the file sizes are. The smaller sizes aren't even a kilobyte. That's plain ridiculous, for something that still happens to be a coherent wallpaper.

I might even have one up tomorrow, if I can figure out what to do with it. I was toying with another photo, but I couldn't quite get it as I wanted it... perhaps this one I'll end up experimenting with 16-color palettes instead of 4-color palettes? It's sepia-toned as it is when I dither it to 16 right now, but I don't think it quite works with the particular image. (It just feels... grainy. I dunno. I might really have to toy with various tools on this one!)

Also want to toy with various angles or other unusual things. I know I probably don't have the absolute best camera for serious photography, but it's a hell of a lot better than the iPod touch I was using for my first wallpapers. (Perhaps at some point I'll try to remake the older wallpapers in higher resolutions? We'll see... some of them -are- season dependent as well, after all.)

Bloodstar · 2012-08-25 07:59:48

I'm rolling out tons of these.

This is a photo of my friend's dog, Thunder - hence the wallpaper's name. I saw him in this position, and just HAD to snap a shot. I wanted to get a few shots of him before, but there weren't any good ones... this one was much less planned, more EXTREMELY lucky. I don't believe I managed this shot!

I would've done this one with the previous two, but... hey, I couldn't get anything right. I was going to apply a new palette to this in 16-colors, as an experiment, but I loved the grayscale version so much I couldn't tamper with it.

I seriously think this one may just have beaten Contrast out as my favorite.

All resolutions from 640x400 to 2880x1800, guest starring mobile phone resolutions // DA link

Now featuring convenient .ZIP file!

e: oh god mangled formatting

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