Organizing my series

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 →

ArtBiz101 – Budgeting

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 →

CS3 on the portable

....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 Color conversion to Black & White

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 →

Color alternatives

...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 →

Back in the studio…

Yountville, July 2007 ...the drive back from Napa took a little longer as I suspected, hitting the LA traffic in the afternoon peak time. That added about two hours to the drive. Yuk! But I did stop by the framers and pick up the framed Tired Bones for OCMA, and it looks niceeee. The Yountville... Continue Reading →

Palm trees are not native to California

...Palm trees are the great Southern California location icon. But they are not native to Southern California, or really any parts of California. I know that there is a project perculating here, and if I remember correctly, a number of them have been done about SoCal palm trees. I just have not done mine yet. And... Continue Reading →

ArtBiz101 – Finance

....I will be traveling on Friday, thus the ArtBiz101 series is being posted a day early. Finance for an artists business plan is an attempt to look at the long range cash flow and for a small business plan, not more than five years. You may be making investements over a longer peroid, such as a house/studio, but as... Continue Reading →

Editioning

.....Since I write about photography (mostly), I will add one of my earlier posted images to help with the site feel. and yes I am still in Napa, CA for another couple of more days, driving down to my Studio in Southern CA on Friday. Hope to make LA early enough to pick up a... Continue Reading →

Photo delay…

...as Rosie had noticed, my recent posts this week are without photographs, which is correct, I am using a proxy email computer and I do not have the capability of uploading photographs at the moment while I am traveling. So until this weekend, it will be a text only week, unless you all would perfer... Continue Reading →

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