Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. Edgar Degas Along a Canyon Wall #1 1 - Introduction: projects and mini-series I regularly work on projects as well as on mini-series, the difference between the two being the time I spent working on a specific collection of images. While a project can take months or years to complete, a mini- series takes only thirty … [Read more...]
Creating Artistic Landscape Photographs Part 1: Flare is Beautiful
Seek not perfection for you can never reach it. -Salvador Dali Flare is Beautiful 1 - Introduction: constructing images I construct images. This is what I do. I don’t just capture raw photographs, process them and convert them. I alter them, warp them, and reformat them. I change their color palette, I dramatically modify their contrast and I use every digital means … [Read more...]
What is Personal style?
1 - Introduction In photography our personal style is the visual expression of our personal taste and personality. Your personal style defines what your photographs and your prints look like. Our style is characterized both by what we capture in the field and by the work we do to the image in the studio. It is characterized by the choices we make in the field and the … [Read more...]
Turning Photographs Into Art Part 9 – Printing on the Epson SC-P600
1 - About printing and printers Printing is the least popular digital photography activity today. We capture a lot of digital photographs, we process a large number of them and we post many images on our websites, blogs and social media pages. Unfortunately we print a very small number of these images. As I wrote in my previous essay, Printing and Traditions, making prints in … [Read more...]
Turning Photographs Into Art , Part 8: My Favorite Printing Papers
The outcome of all your efforts is ink on paper, therefore you better use the best ink and the best paper. Ansel Adams, paraphrased and adapted to digital printing. 1 - Introduction I decided to follow my series about Printing in Lightroom with an essay about my favorite printing papers. It is a logical continuation. After writing about printing I wanted to talk about the … [Read more...]