Looking at one photograph at a time
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 →
...I am begining to believe that Napa County and prehaps the area near the city of Napa is memorial tolerant. After finding the two memorials yesterday, I have now found a total of five in this area. One of which I must have driven past three times, but probably looking on the wrong side of the... Continue Reading →
...I had sort of run out of steam photographing my Insomnia series during my long protracted stay in Northern LA County, so the time at home was refreshing in many ways. Now on this shorter duration in Napa, I found myself late last night wondering around the hotel grounds again with the camera on the tripod,... Continue Reading →
...on our 7 hour drive to Napa from Orange County, I think that I saw only one memorial and since we were in bumper to bumber SF Bay traffic, one that I made a mental note to look for another time. It seems that when ever I am driving, I am keeping my senses aware for... Continue Reading →
Bad Dreams (from the series: Bad Trip - Sad Trip) ...as I have always known, I do a little better with some motivation! My wife will probably agree (and maybe toooo quickly) that I do procrastate, push off something till a little later. Thus getting the tonality of the series Bad Trip - Sad Trip... Continue Reading →
At the Tollgate (form the Series: Bad Trip - Sad Trip) ...I think that I am going to be a big fan of the new Black&White Adjustment layer in CS3. I had been trying to tweak out the sky in this image with my previous workflow: using channels, choose the channel that gives me the... Continue Reading →
Silent Witness (form Series: Bad Trip - Sad Trip) ...We are celebrating the U.S. independence day this week, which officially occurs on this Wednesday, July 4th, but we sometimes make a week of it. Yeah! I have been waiting for this occassion to post a rather sobering image as a reminder for those who like to party perhaps... Continue Reading →
Fading Memories (from the series: Bad Trip - Sad Trip) ...Mark commented today about the potential impact of reworking the tonal qualities of my series Bad Trip - Sad Trip as being a "nightmare". He was not aware of how true that statement was! After the realization of what I was going to have to do,... Continue Reading →
No Longer Paradise (From the Series: Bad Trip - Sad Trip) ...I am re-posting this photograph from my series,which is one that had I made in Hawaii, but the first time I posted it, I had a strong diffusion effect on the foreground. One of the few images that the diffusion effect seemed to work with the photograph.... What I am... Continue Reading →
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