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Untitled (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA May 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale The power of suggestion! I never know where an idea may come from. Sometimes, such as this case, while contemplating and writing about one thing the next morning I am greeted with an inspirational idea. Yesterday, while writing about the Lomo Camera FX app,... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA May 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale I am not big on camera or software evaluations, but as I have been playing with the Lomo Camera FX app for my Samsung 4 and posting some resulting photographs, I thought someone might be interested in an overall evaluation. Especially since this a... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA May 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale Garry Winogrand made famous a statement that he wanted to photography things to see what they looked like, which this morning so did I. What did things look like with the Samsung camera app Lomo Camera FX that I had just downloaded? Cheers!
Untitled (Reata, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA May 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale When I posted in Facebook yesterday about looking for an alternative camera-phone app for a Polaroid appearance, I posted this photograph. The immediate feedback was that the image looked too sharp. Then it immediately dawned on me, in addition to recognizable traits of... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Reata, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA May 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale When Jim McKinniss was showing me the Lomo Camera FX app on his Samsung, I was very intrigued by the Polaroid mode option. Included below is my original Polaroid from the 1980's, as I have been interested in the Polaroid's characteristic limited contrast... Continue Reading →
Untitled copyright 2014 Jim McKinniss & Douglas Stockdale Met up with Jim McKinniss for a quick dinner and beer before the monthly PhotoExchange Meeting and we eventually starting discussing his SoCal retro house photographs that he was posting on Facebook. The conversation eventually turned to the camera-phone app he was using with his Samsung, Lomo... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Zachary, San Onofre State Park, CA April 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale A reclining boy on top of rocks and gravel. The actual location is visually ambiguous with few clues. Upon closer inspection there is what appears to be seaweed on the rocks, as well as some of the rocks have a sheen of... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Don, San Onofre Beach, CA April 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale This is another from my beach portrait series. To be honest, my first version of this image is provided below. I think I was interested in the graphic repetition of the waves, partly as a design element as well as exploring a concept... Continue Reading →
Copyright 2014 published by Princeton Architectural Press Darius Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson have updated and revised their how-to book Publish Your Photography Book. The revised (second) edition has a stronger emphasis on Print-on-Demand, mostly focused on the Blurb publishing company, Zines and the Digital Revolution. The later may not be any longer a Revolution.... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Rock Theater, San Onofre, CA April 2014) copyright 2014 Douglas Stockdale While we were spending Easter Sunday on the San Onofre Beach, Ella and Zach started an interchange that might be best described as Rock Theater. This photograph has an interesting amount of ambiguity and seems ripe for interpretation. Something was obviously transpiring, but... Continue Reading →
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