Fine Art Photographer
After a day of heavy rain and high wind a walk to the market provides a puddle of inspiration. Clouds are grand as they stream by in a fast upper air current.
I am still fascinated by weather. enjoy pjc
Photographic Art Image made on Velvia color transparency film.
Today’s stroll was a B+W world. I continue to learn/teach learn camera and teach camera to do what I want. I like to work front end composition that is compose in the view finder not in post process. Rees a fellow art photographer had once suggested to use a Red filter when trying to get B+W from digital. This is a film thing for adding more contrast. We have both found that digital B+W is a little flat the medium expects you to fix this in post process. Well I still want to do image on the front end in camera not in the digital darkroom. This is how I worked with film. When I would load a roll of film I would select a developer before exposing deciding at the beginning what contrast I wanted from this roll. Adjustments were made by use of filters low contrast situations, shoot with yellow, orange, red to pick up contrast. In the darkroom just a change of paper grade. Now it helped that I had a couple bodies so I could go out to shoot and have a camera loaded with a low ISO film [100] which is more contrasty, and a faster film [400] which wasn’t as contrasty each shot with a dedicated developer for optimum results. How to do this in digital is what I want to learn and teach my camera what I want. The mode I use is Manual the image made is mine not the Mode set by the camera so my images will be exposed the way the focus group average determined. So a brief rant on individual creativity. No programs here. peace pjc
Photographic Art 1998 my first trip to Olympia.
The color of Olympia is everywhere many walls are canvas’s. On the 12th of December I met my daughter for lunch there were nine or more murals in a one and a half block area.
November 12th I love Olympia late afternoon.
December 16th Keep on Printing!
December 16th an ally just off Capital Way the ally was narrow so I had to shoot vertically cutting off some of the detail maybe even the artists name. But the works center and it height was how I determined how to expose. I need a wider lens, much wider.
Great Cuisine of India wall. December 7th
Detail on wall outside of Great Cuisine of India December 7th
These are a few of the many Murals some complete images some are just details of larger work. I will need a very early morning to shoot the entire wall at Great Cuisine of India without cars in the lot. Maybe when the warm rain season comes. That’s spring for you Easterners. peace pjc
More details to come credits to The Artists maybe stories of the murals creators.
Photographic Art B+W Silver Gelatin Fine Art Figure