Category Archives: The Eye of a Photographer

Nov29

Digital Photography Art

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Digital Photography Art

Well, we used to all go out and the images on our film camera to shoot movies run to the corner store or kiosk to get it developed and then after that we tend to stick handprints they went without much more than notice a few minutes. These days do not like digital photography has reached the consumer. Now we have a lot of pictures in our camera on our hard drive and possibly what to do with their growing and growing every year.

Digital photography has found its way into more than half of the homes in America. But most people still order to print their photos. Probably not a movie kiosk corner of old age, but there is still a very strong market for printing. Today your pictures to Costco, the nearest photo shop where he may have a digital printing kiosk at the store, or you can upload them to various websites dedicated to printing images such as Shutterfly, Ofoto, and Snapfish to name a few to mention.

Since 2000, the number of images converted into conventional printing has continued to slide down 5% and could go further this year. However, because of the emergence of interesting alternative way to print your photos from the industry predicts that total revenues will increase this year. Now why is that?

Well, it appears that there are some very lucrative way to make money for companies in the digital age such as digital photo printing reproduction on posters, stamps, postcards, T-shirts, chairs, wallpaper and bronze plaques. Even the ceramic tiles are used as media for digital printing as designers use images to decorate for the spa, restaurants, and fireplace mantels.

We are now in the era of functional art versus just decorative art. Now you can get a more personal touch and feel of your digital photography. Additionally you can digital photographs on wood, plastic, stone, and metal as well as conventional paper of any type. Or through the software on your computer or through a retailer, consumers can print their photos on birthday cards, calendars, photo books and stories that are actually used rather than stored in a drawer, like most of our old albums.

The camera makers do a good job in sales of digital cameras for the people, but now they are so given to the market will take some creativity to take for them to make money in future sales rather than just get us to upgrade our digital cameras every year or two .

Nov8

Photo to Pop Art

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Photo to Pop Art

Photo to pop art canvas art developed for more flexible and durable. We all know that the cloth is known that living a life that will last for decades under proper care. So, this canvas art is one of the best gift you could ever give to someone close to your heart. Photos on canvas Pop art is not just limited to one gift-giving purposes, as well as great interior beauty of your walls to enlarge.

Photo to pop art print is always visible in our daily lives. We can see many of its kind in magazines, comics or even in our local museum that features the traditional canvas painting. This art form is also used in the promotion of products and some ads are usually seen on our television.

The marketing strategy is in line with the energy that is manifested by the youth. Thus, the product increases with the picture that art is a message about what is being advertised emit. We can say that this traditional art major impact on business today.

You might think that, like fashion, pop photo can be considered as new paint and new forms of art. But, you must remember that the last 1960 years and is still recognized, it is popular in the industrial arts. Therefore we can say that it has nothing to do with changing trends, what’s new and trendy, pop art prints remain in the middle of the utility is known in the arts.

Pop art painting is usually seen in personalized t-shirts, mugs and other personal matters. However, with the complicity of the latest technology, this art will be painted a more elegant fabric. Using special software that employs several graphic design, art canvas looks natural as if it is hand painted.

Usually we see an example of canvas art on the walls of some houses. There are also some clients who commissioned an artist to a canvas that will cover the entire space for a more unique feeling to have. This is the beginning, when many artists who do not paint their products in the volume of orders they prefer their customers. Production is reduced because the product is focused on the needs and mandates from their customers. The fabric is more personal than with expensive paintings, since their customers will have their images turned into Pop Art to send. And then be printed on a canvas which is an added attraction to your wall and will last for a century.

Photo to canvas pop art should not detract from the general popularity of abstract expressionism, but it has its own properties that are still in the plastic industry.

Oct1

A Trip to the Lighter Side for an Intense Choreographer

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When a dance company’s trip to the site, it usually takes at least one layer of flooring for the stage. Trapped surfaces, it was built as the show is over. The floor will be sent to the following location, and the ribbon is discarded.

But the company choreographer William Forsythe is keeping the tape, and store them on the Balling-like design that allows the involvement of business ensuring the Brooklyn Academy of Music next week.

“They’re tiny meteors that you see on the stage floor Here are? Pieces of tape we hold every time we tore up the floor,” said Mr. Forsythe. Unique detail seems appropriate for a work entitled “I do not believe in space.”

“It’s a piece of light drama, the. In a sense fun,” said Mr. Forsythe. “It’s becoming more and more sense.”

This approach is not typical choreographer, a New Yorker who has 20 years, the German director of the Frankfurt Ballet and started his own company in Frankfurt in 2004. His work, with vocabulary, quick movement, accurate, sometimes a touch of humor. But if it works with an abstract modern ballet or modern dance, the style is a concept of high intensity, which usually results in hand, serious dark. “We have some of the costs are very, very heavy at BAM,” said Mr. Forsythe, 61.

Light direction his new game does not planned, he said, but grew out of the development process. “I flap a lot of things and people respond to them,” he said.

Set to live music by Thom Willems, former employees, an avant-garde Dutch composer, slow-motion pieces also play ping-pong and movement patterns obtained by the dancers who were asked to recall their apartment blindfolded.

Sep22

A Photography Power Couple

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A Photography Power Couple

Sometimes it takes two to build an art collection. Akron, Ohio, advertising executive Fred Bidwell and his wife Laura and graphic designer, known for their sense of adventure in contemporary photography. In the last 15 years they have collected 500 pieces by photographers such as Josh Gosfield, Brian Ulrich and Edward Burtynsky. Bidwell is now working with the Cleveland Museum of Art to renovate a former transformer station in Cleveland to house their collections, some of which were promised to the museum. The exhibition hall is open next fall.

This week, Bidwell spoke about their early art-collecting couple. The following is the edited transcript.
-Kelly Crow

Fred: We started collecting many years we were married, 1991. We started small and rather slow, and many of the early landscape drawings. Over time, our interest expanded to a lot of conceptual work and portraits. It’s not like I have a sensitivity and Laura has a very differ-99% of the time we know what others will like it.

Laura: We are based on images are a little weird, but has a real beauty to them. I think we have a sense of David Lynch.

Fred: In our living room, we have the big picture ‘Shopping Bag’ Hendrik Kerstens. This is a portrait of old-style master-photographer’s daughter, except that he wore a white shopping bag on her head. It looks like one Dutch woman wearing a white hat rich during the Renaissance.

Laura: We also just bought a work of Jill Greenberg, who is known for the series about the crying baby and a series of animals such as bears and monkeys. We are the picture of a lamb, sweet, fuzzy, pink ears and open mouth covered with what looks like blood. We talked with Jill and in fact, the sheep just eat jelly donuts. People come to our house and go, “Oh!”

Fred: We’re also excited about Jordan Tate. He worked really clever conceptually across a picture to explore.

Laura: One of his works show the iPhone on a pink pillow.

Fred: This is a picture from a camera phone, the screen that contains more pictures. We usually agree on the artist, but sometimes our discussions about what a particular image that we want more. One of our favorites is a Dutch portrait painter Meene Helen, who has been highly regarded series of portraits of teenage girls. They are a strange and unique, and he threw his subjects in an interesting way. So we will discuss our options, and usually means that we need to buy to make everyone happy.

Laura: We have eight girls now, and we’ll buy more.

Fred: You get a better picture of the sensitivity of the photographer when you have some examples of their work is not just a one-off. We have bought 30 or 40 images Todd Hido’s work. He lived in the Bay Area, and he was known to house shooting at night, in fog, rain-splattered streets empty through a windshield.

Laura: His past seems to always be on his back. You can never go wrong with him. He is fantastic.

Jul23

Digitally Editing Photographs of Paintings

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Digitally Editing Photographs of Paintings

In a previous article, I explain how I photograph my paintings, the inclusion of a high enough rights to reproduce jpg quality at least 7 inches square at high resolution printing. In this article I’ll explain the digital editing process that I use in Adobe Photoshop 7.0, after I downloaded the photos on my computer. The goal is to provide a final high-resolution files ready for printing, and some low-resolution files suitable for use on a website. Whether or not freeware as good as Photoshop, I do not know, but if you do not have Photoshop, I will research to buy a copy.

This article is not Photoshop or computer tutorials. It contains what I do, but give an indication. This article is for readers who have a reasonable knowledge of Photoshop and other computer skills. I myself only have the basics, nothing too advanced is required. Before you do, make sure your monitor is calibrated correctly. If you type “PC Monitor Calibration” in your Internet search, there are many websites that will take you through this.

Let us assume that I have just finished shooting my last painting, and just downloaded the images in my “Picture Source” folder on my computer. I keep all my source files in this folder, and keep a regular backup of this, and all the other picture folders, hidden safe at another location. I went back to CD or DVD, because it is non-volatile memory. You may want to consider backing up to external hard drive as well. I perform any operation for the source file is saved as another file in another folder.

First, you may recall from my previous article, I take a different version of each shot. I look at them carefully and remove all but the best from each.

Opening a file in Photoshop 7.0, my crop, rotate and zoom, so I have a picture that might greatest on my screen the whole image to have. Then, with the painting next to me for a visual reference, I matches from Levels.

Then the color balance. My source files are typically blue, so I move the pointer a bit like the blue and cyan. Then I set the saturation. With my image, red is often as bad as saturated. I sometimes have a red saturation down to about minus 15. That’s usually good enough to get the colors and shades. Tweak around if necessary. I sometimes use the Brightness / Contrast, too.

Step back and look together at both the painting and the PC screen. Take a break, then look again with fresh eyes. If other people around, ask them for a second opinion. This right is important, especially if you are going to upload this image version on-line for potential buyers to view. Then I zoom 100%, and use Unsharp Mask to bring into sharp focus. Do not overdo it. I always need a bit imaging, and always leave the sharpening to the latter. I save as a jpg to my “High Res Edits” folder, (maximum quality). You can even save in a lossless file types, but high-res JPG file is always good for my purposes.

Now to create a suitable image for my website. I reduce the Image Size, so the longest dimension is 850 pixels. Zoom in to 100%, and use Unsharp Mask to concentrate. I then Save for Web in the settings I was happy with the quality of the preview screen. I tend to keep them at a very, perhaps unnecessarily, high. The file size is usually around 200k. If you’re worried about people who download a useful version of your photo, you might want the longest dimension and / or reduction in image quality.

I then create a thumbnail, use the same Save for Web process as before, but it makes the largest dimension of 157 pixels.