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detail (100% magnification), Canon 24-105mm L f/4 lens, at 105mm at f/9 copyright Douglas Stockdale Last Friday I had found myself in the local Canon Service shop in Costa Mesa regarding some issues with the bottom left corner of my images and was informed that I need the flange back repaired for my 5D Mark... Continue Reading →
America (Middle Ground - En Medio Tierra), copyright 2017 Douglas Stockdale I am very honored that my photograph “America” from my forthcoming self-published artist photobook Middle Ground will be featured in LACP’s First Annual “Faculty, Member and Alumni (FMA)” Exhibition at the Los Angeles Center of Photography. This is the first exhibition of my photographs... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, book dummy 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale So while my Canon 5D Mk3 is undergoing "flange back" repairs at Canon, I will have some time this week (hopefully repairs complete this Friday) to evaluate some fund raising alternatives to produce Middle Ground. The big-daddy of book fund-raising appears to be Kickstarter with it's all-or-nothing process. Seems... Continue Reading →
Bottom left corner detail 2016 copyright Douglas Stockdale I recently left my Canon 5D Mark 3 body at the Canon Service center in Costa Mesa for repair of the "flange back", which the camera technicians stated was the reason for my latest series of crappy-corner images. Latest, in as this is the same image issue... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, book dummy 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale When I was re-examining my Middle Ground project in the context of how symbolic the subject was to the issues facing the DREAMers, I realized that another way to underscore this concept was to have the book's text in both English and Spanish. A gringo process to... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, Book-dummy #4 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale Last weekend during my LACP mini-seminar on photo book development using my book-dummy #4 for the Middle Ground project, this book design really gelled for me. It was now time to move forward to the next phase; book printing. Fortunately Craig Evans, my printer representative for Dual... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, Book-dummy #4, 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale One of the take-aways from the leporello book-dummy kit that I had received from the printer was some additional design tweaks to the cover. Two days ago I received a couple of samples of the revised cover design; I think a Winner is in the House! To... Continue Reading →
Marker #34, Middle Ground, 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale Earlier this month I had posted about how I was obtaining some feedback on my project Middle Ground which kinda of set me back a tiny bit regarding my artist statement and the underlying concept. But in a very good way. I have known that frequently artist,... Continue Reading →
Leporello Book-dummy kit, Middle Ground, 2018 Copyright Douglas Stockdale You know that when you are self-publishing a new book you are getting very, very close to the final design when you receive a book-dummy kit from the printer, who in this case is Dual Graphics, in Brea. This is a leporello book-dummy kit, for Middle... Continue Reading →
Middle Ground, revised edit, March 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale At this point the realist side (aka the practical engineer) of my personality is kicking in. While I would really, really like to have a large commercial (trade) photobook of the leporello design published, I am not sure that I can obtain the financing for this... Continue Reading →
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