Saturday, July 31, 2010
Julia Margaret Cameron Award Finalist
The winners, honorable mentions and finalists have been announced and my Tire 3 images made it to the finalist list. YAY!!! I am very excited about this. If you want to check out the images from the first, second and third place winners, please follow this link - http://www.thegalaawards.net/announcements/the-julia-margaret-cameron-awardees. If you scroll down to the bottom of the page, there is a link for the honorable mentions and finalists but there are no images there. All images will be in a book though and I am very excited to see that. Here is my image:
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Best explanation...
of the difference between film and digital I have found so far.
I use both and love both but I prefer the look of film for most images I shoot these days. I think film is best for most portraiture and I use it almost exclusively now for my fine art work. But, I think that digital is far superior for color landscapes, wildlife and most especially fashion photography. This is just my own opinion that's based on my own taste in photography. So for me, I dont think I could easily say one was better than the other, but, I seem to have a spiritual connection to film that I dont have with digital photography. I couldn't ever explain how really, or why I felt this way, but I do believe that I just found a little piece of an article that has done it for me. You can find the article on www.salon.com
"There are downsides to digital, but unfortunately for film chauvinists, most of them are loftily aesthetic -- less technical arguments than philosophical ones. To wit: Even the best prints of digitally produced stills lack the warmth, the aliveness, of snapshots produced with a film camera, because film is literally organic. It's celluloid, a compound made from cellulose, camphor and dyes, and the images it produces are direct physical records of things that happened within sight distance of the camera's lens -- records of light hitting unexposed negative and messing with its molecules. Pre-industrial people who feared that photographs took a piece of their soul weren't totally wrong. A portrait created with film is a souvenir of a person's existence at a certain point in time -- a more complex, photochemical version of a footprint in sand. Digital images are created when a sensor records the camera's field of view and puts a facsimile of the image on a computer chip. The result is still an image, but the process is different -- more detached, more theoretical." - Excerpt from Requiem for print photography As Kodak's final roll of Kodachrome film goes to the lab, a look back at what that means -- and what we've lost By Matt Zoller Seitz
I use both and love both but I prefer the look of film for most images I shoot these days. I think film is best for most portraiture and I use it almost exclusively now for my fine art work. But, I think that digital is far superior for color landscapes, wildlife and most especially fashion photography. This is just my own opinion that's based on my own taste in photography. So for me, I dont think I could easily say one was better than the other, but, I seem to have a spiritual connection to film that I dont have with digital photography. I couldn't ever explain how really, or why I felt this way, but I do believe that I just found a little piece of an article that has done it for me. You can find the article on www.salon.com
"There are downsides to digital, but unfortunately for film chauvinists, most of them are loftily aesthetic -- less technical arguments than philosophical ones. To wit: Even the best prints of digitally produced stills lack the warmth, the aliveness, of snapshots produced with a film camera, because film is literally organic. It's celluloid, a compound made from cellulose, camphor and dyes, and the images it produces are direct physical records of things that happened within sight distance of the camera's lens -- records of light hitting unexposed negative and messing with its molecules. Pre-industrial people who feared that photographs took a piece of their soul weren't totally wrong. A portrait created with film is a souvenir of a person's existence at a certain point in time -- a more complex, photochemical version of a footprint in sand. Digital images are created when a sensor records the camera's field of view and puts a facsimile of the image on a computer chip. The result is still an image, but the process is different -- more detached, more theoretical." - Excerpt from Requiem for print photography As Kodak's final roll of Kodachrome film goes to the lab, a look back at what that means -- and what we've lost By Matt Zoller Seitz
Degi Hari after dark
Shots taken behind A&I Photo after Astor Morgans lighting workshop. I believe all shots were taken at 800 ISO.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Wild Grass macros
Macro images of wild grass. Used my Pentax and a macro lens but I cant remember the film used. I really need to start making note of that sort of thing but most likely it was Neopan 1600 or Tri-x developed at home in either Rodinal or HC 110.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Image selected for the Center for Fine Art Photography Black and White show
One of my Hungtington Library images was selected by Andrea Modica to be in the Center for Fine Art Photography's Black and White show. Im very excited!!! Here is the first paragraph from the email:
Congratulations! Juror Andrea Modica selected your work out of 2,558 images submitted for the Black and White exhibition at The Center for Fine Art Photography.
And the image selected is:
The image will hang in the Center in September.
Congratulations! Juror Andrea Modica selected your work out of 2,558 images submitted for the Black and White exhibition at The Center for Fine Art Photography.
And the image selected is:
The image will hang in the Center in September.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Digital Harinezumi 2
Got a new toy camera yesterday. A toy digital camera! I love it! The Digital Harinezumi 2 is so much fun to use and the colors are just amazing. I am finding myself retaking images that never worked with my dSLR or film SLR cameras and Im liking the images now.
None of these images were processed in PS to look like this. All I did to any of them was boost the blacks and contrast just a little because these images didnt need much more contrast than how they came out of the camera. But other than that, what you see here is what the camera made. And this little guy has video mode that shoots in both black and white and color, and when shooting in color, the colors are just as bright in video mode as they are in these shots. There is no live view mode when taking still shots but there is when you're in video mode. So when you are taking still shots you are pretty much guessing on what you're going to get and that did that on purpose.
A few things that I did notice though about this camera is that with my camera, the video mode has sound and read in more than one place that it shouldnt have sound. Also, the brighter the light you shoot in, the more saturated the colors get. When shooting in shadow or low light situations, the color the camera captures is pretty close to how you saw it originally.
But this is a really great camera and a lot of fun to shoot with. I've been shooting pix every day with it and Im hooked!
None of these images were processed in PS to look like this. All I did to any of them was boost the blacks and contrast just a little because these images didnt need much more contrast than how they came out of the camera. But other than that, what you see here is what the camera made. And this little guy has video mode that shoots in both black and white and color, and when shooting in color, the colors are just as bright in video mode as they are in these shots. There is no live view mode when taking still shots but there is when you're in video mode. So when you are taking still shots you are pretty much guessing on what you're going to get and that did that on purpose.
A few things that I did notice though about this camera is that with my camera, the video mode has sound and read in more than one place that it shouldnt have sound. Also, the brighter the light you shoot in, the more saturated the colors get. When shooting in shadow or low light situations, the color the camera captures is pretty close to how you saw it originally.
But this is a really great camera and a lot of fun to shoot with. I've been shooting pix every day with it and Im hooked!
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