Looking at one photograph at a time
...One of the good things that occurs while I have a heavy client load and doing a lot of driving, etc., is the opportunity to be reflective about the issues I am facing in life as well as thoughts about my photographic process. I wrote about creativity recently and I have been in a couple of... Continue Reading →
...Last week I was working my way through the changes to my series Bad Trip - Sad Trip, eliminating the diffussion filtering and slowly updating all of my back ups, etc. Also a heavy travel week for my client projects, but as so happens, one door opens to another. I take a local toll road for... Continue Reading →
West Clear Creek ..a quick user review of the Nikon 8000L film scanner that I have been using for the last four to five years for my medium format negatives. As a result of a number of questions about how I get my images on the computer when I use a medium format camera with film, I... Continue Reading →
...from Octave of Prayer, Minor White wrote "Intensified concentration is common to all creative people...philosphers name this concentration Creativity; the devout call it Meditation". This book by White has been sitting idle in my bookshelf for some time and I recently pulled it out while looking for something. If I recall, I bought this book because I... Continue Reading →
Placerita Canyon Cascade, photograph by Douglas Stockdale ...Minor White published the text for Octave of Prayer as an Aperture publication in 1972 concurrent with an exhibit of the same name at MIT. Worth reading if you can find a copy. I have been re-reading my tattered copy (a "HURT" book to begin with, better price at the time)... Continue Reading →
I've been meaning to add my two cents to the discussions about sensor resolution that were going around recently. This much I know from doing some "engineering" resolution testing, for my Canon XTi and my two Canon L lens, 17-40mm f/4 and 70-200mm f/4, the very best (optimum) image resolution is at f/6 and f/7.1 respectfully. FYI,... Continue Reading →
Roadside Gully, Nevada copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale It is Memorial Day here in the U.S., a day we set aside to remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in what they believed in. Traditionally this day is about those who perished in war and in many ways, about those who survived the war to come back another... Continue Reading →
Fading Memories After a lot of consideration, I have decided to eliminate the diffusion effects from images of the Bad Trip - Sad Trip series. The final catalyst for the decision came as a result of the drive-by image for the Presistent LA memorial. What I now understand is the emotional effect that these road side memorials... Continue Reading →
LA 405 Memorial As I had stated yesterday, I was going to make another drive-by photograph of the "Persistant" LA memorial that is on the 405. But I do realize that the resulting image is totally out of character with the rest of the series. Almost consistent. I like the image a lot as... Continue Reading →
Last night I finished the first pass on the non-diffused version images of my Bad Trip - Sad Trip series. So I am evaluating them against the other versions of the same images. hmmmm But today, I need to meet with a client, but the good news is that I have another opportunity to work on a... Continue Reading →
