Looking at one photograph at a time
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 →
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 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 →
....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 →
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