Yesterday afternoon I received my production proof of my Sharpening Photographs for Blurb Printing softbound book. One correction I need to make on the next version is that in the Afterword, I have the pages reversed. Only myself to blame on that one! I still want to spend some time looking at the various PS3... Continue Reading →
Near miss
As I worked on my project Places Amongst Us, there was the frustration that photographs that I really liked were on film and due to my image process, did not make the final cut. But I also see that I missed a short term goal, there is still the long term journey, of which this series... Continue Reading →
SoFoBoMo after the fact
Having just completed my SoFoBoMo book it is probably a good time to reflect while the memories of this project are still fresh. So in very random order: Deciding to try this with film and scanning was a mistake for ME. My film processing, scanning and image processing work-flow is too slow. Digital work flow... Continue Reading →
Hasselblad mirror blues
While working on the film scans for my SoFoBoMo series, one tiny little thing kept dogging me, why was I getting some slight blurriness to my images. Not every image, but enough. Okay, way toooo many. This was another of those distracts that made me wonder, was I just producing crap in this 30 days and if... Continue Reading →
Places Amongst Us
My SoFoBoMo for 2008 is complete! I just uploaded my Blurb BookSmart template and did all of the neccessary things and ordered my production proof of Places Amongst Us. And so it is now out there. Done for the moment. And I feel it almost was not going to happen and in retrospect, choosing to... Continue Reading →
SoFoBoMo Finish line
It does appear that I am going to finish my SoFoBoMo project in the Month of May. I just did the last edit on my project Places Amongst Us in my Blurb book template. So tomorrow morning, I will give it another review and then upload to Blurb and order my first copy. The way... Continue Reading →
Sharpening Photographs for Blurb Printing
"Front Patio I" from the series "Places Amongst Us", copyright of Douglas Stockdale Well this is a strange series of events. It now appears that my first published book (Blurb) is going to be technical How-To. I just uploaded and made available my book "Sharpening Photographs for Blurb Printing". For those who have been following... Continue Reading →
Walkway IV
"Walkway IV" from the series Places Amongst Us, Tijeras Creek, copyright of Douglas Stockdale a SoFoBoMo 2008 production I am still plodding along. The picture taking part is done, or as much done as I feel warrented at the moment. Now into some serious picture tweaking, with a lot of time in dust removal from... Continue Reading →
Neighbors VII
"Neighbors VII" from the series Tijeras Creek, photograph copyright of Douglas Stockdale A SoFoBoMo 2008 production Best regards, Doug Note: the title to this photograph may change, as this was the working title and I have bee rethinking some of the image titles again for this series. At this time, the earlier Observation Bench titles are... Continue Reading →
Photolucida – Photo Reviews
I recently received an update from Photolucida (Portland, OR) that they are hosting a Nortwest Summer Portfolio Review. My article about the phtoto review that I participated at in Palms Springs received a lot of attention, thus I want to provide another opportunity, but regretfully it is already sold out! Bummer and I was giving this... Continue Reading →
Singular Images 