Looking at one photograph at a time
Fading Memories After a lot of consideration, I have decided to eliminate the diffusion effects from images of the Bad Trip - Sad Trip series. The final catalyst for the decision came as a result of the drive-by image for the Presistent LA memorial. What I now understand is the emotional effect that these road side memorials... Continue Reading →
LA 405 Memorial As I had stated yesterday, I was going to make another drive-by photograph of the "Persistant" LA memorial that is on the 405. But I do realize that the resulting image is totally out of character with the rest of the series. Almost consistent. I like the image a lot as... Continue Reading →
Last night I finished the first pass on the non-diffused version images of my Bad Trip - Sad Trip series. So I am evaluating them against the other versions of the same images. hmmmm But today, I need to meet with a client, but the good news is that I have another opportunity to work on a... Continue Reading →
Randy, Nevada copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale - I'm about a third of the way through revising all of my In Passing (project originally titled Bad Trip - Sad Trip) images and as usually it is more complex than just deleting a layer in Photoshop. Sometimes there is a need to revaluate the entire tonal range of the... Continue Reading →
I-5 Triplets copyright 2007 Douglas Stockdale I have a very nagging issue. With my series Bad Trip - Sad Trip I have added a new visual element to these images and one that I am not fully reconciled with. Each image has the foreground, if not the entire image, with a large degree of diffusion that... Continue Reading →
Cloud Burst, photograph copyright of Douglas Stockdale I've been back thinking about publishing my images in a book again and remembered the reference to a relatively new blog, 5B4, which is an extensive review of photographic books. So after reviewing the book reviews on 5B4 again, I believe that I can further endose the 5B4 blog by adding to... Continue Reading →
No Longer Paradise A poetry reading is when the poet has the opportunity to engage an audience and put flesh on the bones of their work, to breath life into the written word and to provide a specific rhythm and feeling to the work. Until recently, the thought of discussing what I am trying to do... Continue Reading →
No image with this post today, as I am traveling for my day job... But nevertheless, I have been thinking about this whole issue of Limited Edition prints for photographers, versus Open Edition prints. Does one or the other really make sense? Having made my first Limited Edition print back in the 1980's, it's was not a good experience for... Continue Reading →
Arizona Monsoon Over the weekend while listening to a lot of music, I started to notice how many great bands have in their bio that they had been formed and started playing as "cover bands", meaning they played the songs that other bands recorded. Not much is said about who they covered, but probably some... Continue Reading →
For the Three Children While in the progress of writing my statement for my project Bad Trip - Sad Trip, a very sad event just occurred at my Freeway exit, when three very young children were accidently killed. I did not know the family but they lived a couple of minutes down the road in an... Continue Reading →
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