Looking at one photograph at a time
Options (from the series: Insomnia: Hotel Noir) ...When working on the business plan, the first part deals with the company and its organizational structure, as well as the qualifications of those who are responsible. Next Friday I will discuss the legal asepects of the company for doing business within the U.S. As an artist who is... Continue Reading →
Lichen Rocks & Oaks ...Colin and I have been discussing off-line a photographer (artist) "style". Colin had remarked that this was good subject for a post the following day, and since he has some other issues to write, or is still pondering this, I feel the need to discuss this. The need for a style is one of... 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 →
...yesterday afternoon we went to the Members reception at the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) for the mulitimedia installation by Coa Fei. She is a young cinama/director from the Bejing art community and her installation was interesting. Maybe even more for me as she is working on an industrial subject not much unlike what I was working on... 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 →
Night Watch (from series: Insomnia: Hotel Noir) ...this is the third article on my series of developing an artistic business. Business plans have been written extensively about, as a written and detailed business plan is what most new companies take to the bank or key investors to get their start-up money. People who invest their money want... Continue Reading →
...I had received a request from Julie in the comments to an earlier blog post about what I found regarding the image toning options I have with the new PSC3 program. Without doing any checking, I thought that I just still had the one option of using a Hue/Saturation adjustment level as I had with... 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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