A Pretty Cool Accident

It's the afternoon of Memorial Day. I'm taking it easy and just resting, enjoying the unusually quiet afternoon in downtown L.A. In fact, I was getting a little bored -- so I started fiddling around with some old photos. I happened to color-invert this image from last year's July 29 entry, and I like the result!

Looks like some B-movie scene showing souls in hell or something^, or maybe a scene from some direct-to-video science fiction movie showing an evil alien's lab with a collection of human faces used for disguise^

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I fiddled with it some more and obtained this result, which I also like.


Normally, turning a photograph into its own negative will make it look unnatural and 'ghostly'. Interestingly enough though, in these images the darkness functions to some extent as a kind of color -- to me these faces look almost as if they were drawings filled in with graphite or charcoal -- and actually serves to define the features in a more natural way. I guess that's because the originals were colorless and kind of ghostly in the first place.