Before and After
March 30, 2010
Before
After
There are significant improvements and features in CS5!
Beta testing Photoshop CS5
March 29, 2010
In a word? transformative.
Channels and Profiles
March 21, 2010
Hyacinth in 2 channels
Two days–on and off–of thrashing around in photoshop trying to figure out how to save this image as a jpg (after deleting all channels except cyan and black). I’ve tried split-toning and selective color to “duplicate” color–with no success. The hue on the fingers is challenging to match outside of cmyk profile.
The image isn’t stellar, but I like it. And I want to use it.
Work on the portfolio? I’m realizing how unorganized my digital filing system is. Tracking down images is time consuming, with more time currently spent organizing…blech!
Eudora Welty…
March 16, 2010
said of the snapshot, ” a good [one] stops the moment from running away.”
So, I’m here worrying the thing that deems one photograph a snapshot and the other photograph a bit of art.
Does knowledge/training reduce one’s ability to produce snapshots thereby separating our perception of an image by nothing more than an understanding or notion of what art is?
what the snapshot isn’t?
I still point and shoot. But don’t I look just a bit longer through the viewfinder at the form and direction of things touching, however slightly, the subject of my gaze?
Eudora, doesn’t a good composition also stop the moment from running away?
The Playground
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Implications
March 6, 2010
I hate the photograph today. I hate the photographic image, bound as it is to today by the flat dimension of something past; something that is no more; something that lingers, constantly reinserting itself as a visual reminder of precisely what is lost to/in/by time. Christ our existence is tragic! And that tragedy, in this moment, is wrenching. And heavy. I wonder the weight of a photograph, the heaviness I can barely feel in the palm of my hand?
A visual presence
Do I burden the photograph with emotion?
Or is it that emotion is burdened by the additional weight of the image?
Indeed, the implications of the photograph are exhaustive.
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Intersections Between Language and Photography 