Looking at one photograph at a time
As I discussed a few days ago, I am creating a series of loose, un-matted photographic prints for sale at my gallery, Fabrik Projects, located in Los Angeles. One of the loose photographs that I have been thinking about making available at Fabrik Projects is the featured photograph above, Winter Field, JiaShan. This photograph has been a... Continue Reading →
You might image my surprise when I was poking around Bing images last week in-between events when I did a search on "Contemporary Landscape Photography" to see what might come up and the very first image was....mine! Yep, the photograph above, Winter Field, JiaShan, that I created while staying in the city of JiaShan, China... Continue Reading →
JiaShan, Hutong Boatman (Chinese Picture Postcards series) 2008 copyright Douglas Stockdale - As I continue to develop my new series Chinese Picture Postcards, I decided that I would start my blog for this project very early on. Since this series is intented to be paired images, one side an idealistic composed photograph and the facing... Continue Reading →
JiaShan (China series) copyright 2008 Douglas Stockdale - As I continued to chew on the whole 'subtlety' question (and thanks to Paul Butzi to working the question a little deeper), and specifically to how I am developing my photographs for my current series, I tried a little test. What if I attended my monthly print review with the Photographers Exchange,... Continue Reading →
After writing yesterday about the balance of hand-head-heart in my work, I realize that I may be way too head-strong. With that I also imply I may be too left side brainy, which is the analytical and verbal side of our brain. I don't know, perhaps a guy thing or maybe tooo much an engineer. The right... Continue Reading →
While I was putting the finishing touches of the sofbound version of In Passing, I continued to concurrently work my project development process for my China photographs. Over the weekend, I started the development of the artist statements (book introductions) for the three distinct projects coming out of my China experience. I also identifed three buckets (file folders) to move my... Continue Reading →
PingHu, China copyright 2008 Douglas Stockdale An image that I made of the three men crossing the street in PingHu may not be part of my series I'm Just Looking (Wo Zhi Kankan). It is a picture about them looking (and of course, me looking at them doing the looking). I can not put my... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Transition, Winter Storm, China) copyright 2008 Douglas Stockdale - This is the part that drives me crazy. (which is dangerous to say when you live in Southern California). I come up with a great idea for a series, which in this case is a working title of Wo Zhi Kankan (I'm Just Looking) a... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Road to PingHu, Winter, China) copyright 2008 Douglas Stockdale One of the responses to the question, "what makes a Contemporary Landscape Photography?", was the need for it to be viewed as 'objective'. I think that objectivity is what we want from a judge, to be detached from the proceedings and ensure no bias. Which is a good thing... Continue Reading →
Winter Field, JiaShan, China (Wo Zhi KanKan - I am just Looking) copyright 2008 Douglas Stockdale - When I read a question asked by Miguel Garcia-Guzman on his blog Exposure Compensation (2014 update: the Exposure Compensation blog has been removed and has a new owner) regarding what constitutes Contemporary Great Portrait Photography, that started a kernel of thinking as... Continue Reading →
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