Looking at one photograph at a time
Maintenance Entrance (from the series: Insomnia; Hotel Noir) I was about to move on to the topic of Marketing for the ArtBiz101 series. But while talking about retail sales recently, I realized that for perhaps a lot of artist, seasonal budgeting is a must. That is to say that during the year, you will have a really big... Continue Reading →
Cross in Wildflowers (from the series: Bad Trip - Sad Trip) The creative side of being an artist is really great, exploring the potential of the medium and your inner thougths and then seeing the results on paper or what every you final output is. In comparison, file maintenance and making sure your documentation and back-ups are in... Continue Reading →
Three Bouquets on Freeway Overpass (from the series: Bad Trip - Sad Trip) Well, I just updated the image titles and rearranged some of the images on my web site for the series Bad Trip - Sad Trip. One of the changes in the layou was my reaction to a comment by Kjell on my series, specificly the one image that was... Continue Reading →
Indiana State Route 30 - 2007 For the image titles in my series In Passing (Updated: original working title; Bad Trip - Sad Trip), I had first started using a more documentary form of naming convention with the titles, essentially "what it is" or "where it is". After a number of emial exchanges with Colin Jago (blog: Photostream) about images that... Continue Reading →
Cross and two Butterflies, Nevada (from the series Bad Trip - Sad Trip) Having used CS3 for the last month and half, I now recoginize that I have changed my digital workflow to create my Black and White images. When I made this photograph (Cross and two Butterflies) last year with my Canon XTi, Phototshop... Continue Reading →
Cross and Tree, Napa (from the series Bad Trip - Sad Trip) I have not progressed to the point on my series Bad Trip - Sad Trip that I need to be thinking about the organization of the images, first on my web site and subsequently how would I arrange the images for an exhibit or in a... Continue Reading →
Double Signs (from the series Insomnia: Hotel Noir) Budgeting and double accounting (okay not the best visual pun with this image, best I could do!) is probably the very last thing that is on the mind of a creative person, unless you are trying to "cook the books" as Enron did. As was pointed out by Martin in... Continue Reading →
....I have to say that I relunctantly loaded Photoshop CS3 on my portable computer. Its a Dell Inspiron 4100, but very old by today's standards, purchased just after the Windows launch of XP in 2002. At the time we purchased it there was a big improvement over the Windows 97 Dell Latitude that I had been using.... Continue Reading →
Napa Lights (from the series In Passing) copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale I was not sure how the evening photograph of the memorial from Napa would appear after making the color conversion to Black & White. The one thing that I did know is that working in Black & White would provide me more liberties in adjusting... Continue Reading →
...While photographing my different series, I am intending to create most of the final images in Black & White, I have photographs that are very unique in color. And in this case with the long exposure and tail light streaks during a photograph made at late dusk, not an image that will easily translate directly to Black & White. And so the... Continue Reading →
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