El Cerrito (From the series: A Sideways Glance)
Photo of the Day: El Cerrito
Hand made & Hand crafted
I am starting to come to the realization that I am going to be making my first limited edition book in conjunction with someone from our Photophers Exchange who is a custom box binder. I have been reading with great interest the series of articles in Photo-eye Review about book publishing. Especially this last issue on self publishing with... Continue Reading →
The Project – A Book
One of the points that Brooks Jensen was making when he was suggesting to work on a body of work as a series/project, is also consider what the end game is (okay, that's my paraphrase, not a quote). One option is to exhibit the series and another is to publish it. I have a strong... Continue Reading →
Photo of the Day: Self Portrait
I received a request for a photograph of myself from Photo Techniques Magazine and realized that it has been a long time since I had a photograph of the "creative" Doug Stockdale. Thus my self assignment this morning was to create a reasonable self portrait, and now you understand why it is that I usually take... Continue Reading →
Photo of the Day: Culver exit memorial
Culver Exit - San Diego Freeway (From the originally titled project: Bad Trip - Sad Trip) copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale I don't know how long this tiny memorial has been hiding in the shadows of these pine trees, but it is one of those small memorials hiding in plain site. I saw it for the first... Continue Reading →
Wildflowers: the do-over
Wildflowers (from the original titled project Bad Trip - Sad Trip) copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale The modifications to this image were two fold, the obvious (to me in retrospect) was to lighten the overly dark upper sky (bring back the blue slider in the B&W adjustment layer) and the subtle (after last nights dinner of leftover fried Crow) was adjusting the shadows (curve adjustment layer) to... Continue Reading →
Texas Photographic Society
Insomnia (from the series Insomnia: Hotel Noir) Earlier this year I had submitted images for the Texas Photographic Society (TPS) 15th National Competition. Although I did not get juried into this exhibit, I did become a member of TPS, and you can find my link on their members page. I think that you will get... Continue Reading →
Photo of the Week: Patio Decks
Patio Decks (From the series; A Sideways Glance)
A Grayscale Trap
Lichen and Rocks (Riverside county) copyright Douglas Stockdale - While I was reacting to Tim Atherton's digital grayscale blog, I had defensively taken the position about the full range of black to grays in a digial black & white image. I then posted one of my digital images to try to "prove my point". Opps! Because... Continue Reading →
Digital Black and White
I wanted to add one last comment to the Tim Atherton dig at digital black and white images, where he has written:... "colour digital work can sing (as can analogue/digital hybrid colour). Though probably the biggest single reason that so many converted colour images look crappy in greyscale is nothing to do with technique, but rather... Continue Reading →
Singular Images 