Peter J. Crowley

Fine Art Photographer

Olympia Arts Walk and Procession of the Species, St Martins Dragon Boats

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A Weekend of Life of Art

_DSC0750 S30 Rd+5 Blu-3 Life is Good Ice Cream 4-24-15Strawberry kids of all ages

_DSC0731 S30 Dance in Park 4-25-15Dance, story telling in the park

_DSC0742 S30 Rd4+ Blu-1 4-24-15Jake showing with Mom at Oly Fed

_DSC0790 S30 +20Sat Dragon Dancers 4-25-15Dragon Dance sponsored by St. Martins College

_DSC0819 S30 Red+3 Blue-2 Procession 4-25-15The Procession of the Species

_DSC0739 S30 April+Me 4-24-15April and me Photo by Nathan her son who’s work in Photography + painting is going to a Nation competition.       

_DSC0771 S30 Rd+4 Blu-3 Text 4-24-15The Text Where are you downtown is alive.

_DSC0822 S30 Kitty Dancing Procession 4-25-15Dancing Dancing

_DSC0828 S30 +Sat20 Dancing Procession 4-25-15Dancing Dancing

_DSC0831 S30 +20sat Purple Dancer Procession 4-25-15Dancing in the Street

_DSC0836 S30 Sat+10 Happy Mommy 4-25-15A Great and Happy Mom

_DSC0839 S30 +Sat20 dk20 4-25-15The Cat that ate the Canary and Friends

 Sorry about not knowing names of Puppeteer and Dancers and others if you see this and know who they are comment and I will add credit.   enjoy pjc

Photographic Art

Prime Lens are Better for your Cardiovascular Health

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Well maybe but not a lot but I think it adds to my creativity or focus level. One of Diane Arbus’s early mentors said “you must care passionately about your subject or why bother?” When I work with a subject on location I want to feel the space by walking around closer, farther I feel more in the space. Simply I work slower allowing my eyes to see different distances rather than stand in the same place and zooming. The sense of space more importantly the negative space what is going on in the frame that isn’t my subject. A subject is not always a person, could be a tree, a landscape anything just be totally involved passionate. 

negative28-edited S30 Film Tenino 3-26-15

Tenino Wa. B+W film scan from negative 3-26-15 below is a digital of the same decaffeinated to B+W maybe it is me or my poor post production skill but film is B+W for real. More creative wanderings… Image here is made with Nikkor 105mm F-2.5 a prime lens. Digital is a 18-55mm Kit Zoom. Lens is really 28.8-88mm something Nikon neglects to mention in their data. It’s an 18 on a full sensor but not on the D-3100. The prime 105 is Brass and Glass not at all fashionable to a convenient driven photographer. It’s heavy but it’s sharp.  With the diggie I exposed more frames with the zoom, a little wider more close up. With film step back re frame bang 3 images and knowing I had what I wanted.

_DSC0051 S30 +R3+G2-B3 B+W

So with film you end up taking a few more steps not a big cardio gain every little bit helps. You also get a bit more time to explore the image you will make.

Photographic Art  Silver Gelatin

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