Looking at one photograph at a time
Hope From my many years of printing, the mantra for "straight" landscape photography, was that when (not if) you make some tonal or other adjustments to the image, they should not be noticed or seen. That the image had to look natural, and did not suggest manipulation. Thus the more skilled you were in the... Continue Reading →
Alex I continue with my artistic statment for Bad Trip Sad Trip and found myself re-reading the Editorial of the same title by Brooks Jensen from last February's issue of LensWork. I believe that what he discusses has held true for this project. I have chosen a specific image preparation and printing style for this body of... Continue Reading →
Tired Bones When I create something, be it a photographic image or an acrylic painting, I do appreciate the feedback from others that the artwork meant something to them, which I would call artistic validation. I think of it as a metaphor for making a connection with someone. Before, I made landscape photographs for... Continue Reading →
Fading Memories The working title to my project is "Bad Trip - Sad Trip", a project title that changes a little each day. While I was in Shanghai last month, I was trying to have a "chop" or stamp made for this project title. It does not translate easily, and as close as we could get... Continue Reading →
NYCity Ground Zero There seems to be some internet Angst with a few reviews (example see blog: The Online Photographer) of the Lecia M8 and comparison with the Canon Rebel XTi. For the record, I have a Canon Rebel XTi and a "Lecia", more about that in a moment. As to my background for this review, I look at... Continue Reading →
Randy Looking back, I have always been thinking in terms of groups of photograhs, mostly thematic landscape groups. Occasionally I will fnd that I am interested in a particluar group of images that have a stronger unifying "glue" and then I begin to group these together as a series. Then I read the artilce (seems like most have)... Continue Reading →
Stand of Trees I was reading Nick Brandt's book On This Earth, where he writes of his photographing technique in the Afterward. It struck a cord within me as being similar to what I have found that I am doing when photographing the landscape. He states (my excerpts) "I don't use telephoto lens....I want to get a real sense of... Continue Reading →
Non-Postcard of Bavaria After writing my earlier message this morning, I started to wonder, did I keep the second version that I aluded to? After doing some digging in the back-up CD's, there is was. So to help make what I hope was my point, this is another image in the same area, different day, different... Continue Reading →
Postcard of Bavaria Yesterday there was another round of discussion as to what constitued a "good" landscape photograph. This was initiated by a review of some recently published landscape images in Blind Spot magazine. I guess what bothers me is that there are the judgements regarding "good" landscape images, infurring of course that there are "bad" landscape... Continue Reading →
More about the blog managment; yesterday I resized my posted images to from large jpg to small jpgs. Now that I am traveling and completing a quick review from some other computers, the small images do not appear any where near what they potentially should. So until I return and reload them again as a medium size jpg, please do... Continue Reading →
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