Description

Ideal for turning a quiet, single subject into a page from a scientific catalog featuring wood engraving style. The top half shows the original photo; the bottom half deepens the darkest tones of the photo to near-ink coverage, with a huge triangular light cone rising from the center of a low horizon, formed entirely by countless dense bright dots, wider at the bottom and narrower and fading as it goes up. The subject is reduced to a small dark silhouette at the foot of the light cone, rendered with parallel fine engraved lines and only a few bright lines left on the light-facing side. The entire image uses only one dark tone and one slightly creamy light tone, with a very small bright point next to the peak. A single line of small classic serif text is centered at the bottom: a figure number and a caption, like a catalog author calmly recording a curious phenomenon. Avoid photos that require clear subject details, expressions, or colors, full streetscapes and lively scenes, as well as color, photographic realism, soft focus halos, and stage spotlight effects.