I saw an image online recently that demonstrated the Out Of Bounds (aka OOB) effect and figured I’d give it a shot. I started off with a picture of my friend Bob that I knew would work well with this effect.
It’s pretty fun to try, especially when you have some photos that almost seem to have been planned for OOB images before shooting them. I ended up doing three photos: Bob’s, Tessa’s, and one of a bird I shot while on a cruise a couple of years ago. You can see them all here.
I ended up searching to see if there were some other examples I could learn from and ended up finding tons over on flickr. Click here to see many, many photos that explore this type of effect. There are some truly amazing ones if you scroll through the thousands available.
Here are the other two I worked on (more versions of the bird shot are available here):
Comments
This is extremely cool! I have no idea how hard it would be, but it would be insane to write a program that would analyze boundaries of an image and automatically “box” a section of an image. Even with user guidance of how the image edge algorithm decided on edges it would be pretty nice…
Doing it in photoshop (or paint shop pro, etc.) is pretty straightforward. You need to know about masking, layers, and some other basic Photoshop features but the pain is that it is at times tedious to isolate the bits that are outside the bounds. That can be a bit of a pain but overall but it’s not too difficult.
Coding up an algorithm to make the tedious part easy would be quite challenging though. Photoshop does a pretty good job at it and I end up not using it because it’s just not good enough yet except for the simple edge detection. I’m sure they’ve dedicated plenty of thought to the problem and if they’ve only gotten as far as they have it’s a sure thing it is far from trivial to pull off in a completely automatic fashion. Definitely an interesting problem though…
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