Looking at one photograph at a time
For this post, I am guessing that many of you are not going to need to read it. And it is one of those good news - bad news things, at least for me. So to save some of your some trouble, the bottom line is that if you want to get your images looking... Continue Reading →
In Passing series copyright Douglas Stockdale - While finishing the artist proof for my next Edition Folio and thinking about a Blurb book for the series Bad Trip - Sad Trip, I am now rethinking the title for the series. When the series was published in LensWork magazine, they provided this body of work with the... Continue Reading →
PingHu, China copyright 2008 Douglas Stockdale An image that I made of the three men crossing the street in PingHu may not be part of my series I'm Just Looking (Wo Zhi Kankan). It is a picture about them looking (and of course, me looking at them doing the looking). I can not put my... Continue Reading →
I am continuing to muddle over the comments regarding Contemporary Landscape Photography and the idea of appearing neutral in the presentation of the visual facts. And perhaps what it means to be objective. Taking this from a different mental perspective may help me, that is, what is a Great Landscape Photograph? I think that the use... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Transition, Winter Storm, China) copyright 2008 Douglas Stockdale - This is the part that drives me crazy. (which is dangerous to say when you live in Southern California). I come up with a great idea for a series, which in this case is a working title of Wo Zhi Kankan (I'm Just Looking) a... Continue Reading →
Winter Field, JiaShan, China (Wo Zhi KanKan - I am just Looking) copyright 2008 Douglas Stockdale - When I read a question asked by Miguel Garcia-Guzman on his blog Exposure Compensation (2014 update: the Exposure Compensation blog has been removed and has a new owner) regarding what constitutes Contemporary Great Portrait Photography, that started a kernel of thinking as... Continue Reading →
Since my visit to China, and specifically here in PingHu, was very brief, very much a cultural snapshot, a brief slice of time. Thus, I was unable to tell by looking at this family owned business, which came first, the development of the industrial park, or were they just lucky that the government did not allow their small factory... Continue Reading →
While wandering around in this new industrial complex that was recently built in PingHu, I found this room. It was a large room in size, not neccessarily in height, part of a clean room area for future medical device assembly. The Chinese have a number of windows in their facilities, but they are usually masked with... Continue Reading →
What I am realizing is that my series Open During Construction (Zhao Chang Ying Ye) is getting a little more complex than some of my earlier work as it relates to scope. Most of my earlier projects were united under a theme and althought they did change over time, but remained realitivly one dimensional. I had an... Continue Reading →
I thought that this made a better blog title than quit being lazy! I have found that as I work a series of photographs, I have been doing some shortcut evaluations and not really taking the images to where I can fully evaluate them. Such that I was going from camera, to RAW editor, to Photoshop... Continue Reading →
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