My wife and I just enjoyed 3 weeks of traveling in Southern Italy, including Sicily, the Aeolian Islands, Calabria, and Puglia. While traveling, I photographed these two stone carvings in Reggio and Trani. The shell was located 3 stories up on a private building and the skull was in a church cemetery. 

Edited November 26, 20232 yr by FrederickH

Neat!  You have to wonder who was buried under that skull!

35 minutes ago, lew said:

Neat!  You have to wonder who was buried under that skull!

Lew, this was part of a church door and I'm thinking that the various skulls represented former clergy associated with the church?

Here's a 2nd photo from that door. I'm thinking that a tryptic carving, featuring all 3, panel may in order???

Edited November 27, 20232 yr by FrederickH

Third photo!!

Well they do have room to add more. You planning on that large door?

8 hours ago, Gerald said:

Well they do have room to add more. You planning on that large door?

No way!

16 hours ago, FrederickH said:

. I'm thinking that a tryptic carving, featuring all 3, panel may in order??

Thanks for your pictures. Always a treat. I've been patiently waiting for this thread to see what caught your artistic eye. Let the carving begin. I've got the next several winter months to follow along. Keeps me busy.

 

 Here's the shell that I  photographed in Reggio, Calabria and it was three stories up on a building when photographed it. This will be my first carving from my trip. My question is this: Is there softwear that would fix the "keystoning" effect in this first photo? The angle is about 30º and my second photo(printer is not working well) is for my drawing of the carving that I want to do. The width of the shell will be about 8" and I can't tell if the height should be 8" or less.

This will be a challenging carving. No doubt, you're up to the challenge.

As for your software question maybe @lewor @4DThinker can weigh in.

Couple of ideas-

Photoshop- https://www.photographymad.com/pages/view/fixing-the-keystone-effect-using-photoshop#:~:text=The keystone effect is a,with the vertical grid lines.

 

Samsung phone- https://www.photographymad.com/pages/view/fixing-the-keystone-effect-using-photoshop#:~:text=The keystone effect is a,with the vertical grid lines.

 

On Line- https://www5.lunapic.com/editor/?action=perspective

 

From iPhone-  https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255116258?answerId=259516194022&sortBy=best#259516194022

While you can warp the image to straighten out the perspective keystone effect, the 3D nature of it will not correct.   If you are using VCarve or Aspire from vectric.com as you CNC software it has a distort feature that can correct converging side lines so they are vertical. A little drafting can help you adjust the height if you know the height above the ground of the image take and how far back you were from the wall it was on.   A quick play with my aspire show a shape 30 degree above would appear approx 86.6% shorter than actual height when viewed straight on, if you were 30 degrees below it when you took the photo. Discount any size difference as you likely zoomed in when you took the photo. 

4D

Edited December 11, 20232 yr by 4DThinker

Lowe, thanks for the related programs but I can't seem to make them work properly. I don't have Photoshop but just a basic Photo program on my Mac. 4D, thank you. I'll try the 86.6% shorter than actual height to my print.

https://www.lemkesoft.de/en/products/graphicconverter/#:~:text=GraphicConverter offers everything you would,of features%2C stability and reliability.

 

not free but might be an alternative 

Free photoshop alternative

 

https://www.gimp.org/

 

 

 

Here's the start of my carving project. This will have to worked on during rainy/cold weather. The backside has already been carved for relief of the lower shell-lobes and now the front can be done.

Looking forward to seeing the progression.

On 11/26/2023 at 12:58 PM, FrederickH said:

Lew, this was part of a church door and I'm thinking that the various skulls represented former clergy associated with the church?

 

Looks like they all died from poisoning Frederick!  Hope you didn't wander inside

 

Looking forward to seeing these carvings "come to life".

Let the carving begin. It's mainly tools # 3 and # 5's right now. I still have a hard time wrapping my brain around carving the C-scrolls but I'll get there.

On 12/15/2023 at 3:10 PM, FrederickH said:

This will have to worked on during rainy/cold weather.

Must be rainy and cold there? is here...rainy anyway.

7 minutes ago, FrederickH said:

Let the carving begin...

Looking good so far.