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Tag Archives: composites
Monday Missive — July 6, 2020
Quotes “Photography is a window to place, time and memory.” — Soomin Ham “If you want more creative photographs, you need to learn to think more creatively: not different gear, but different thoughts.” — David duChemin “The decisive moment is … Continue reading
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Tagged ACR, camera raw, composites, Down, dust, Henri Cartier-Bresson, masks, selections, stacked focus
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Monday Missive — March 16, 2020
Quotes “I don’t like to be called a “female photographer”. We don’t refer to Salgado or Cartier-Bresson as “male photographers”. I feel that calling us “female photographers” perpetuates the idea that we are “lesser than”, in some way. It defines … Continue reading
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Tagged color, composites, Fan Forman, light and shadow, Links and Quotes, mood, street photography, surrealism
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Monday Missive — February 10, 2020
Quotes “What I respect, and at times envy, about painting is that it never claims to be anything other than a purely subjective vision. And we place no false expections on it in terms of its truth value. Photographs, on … Continue reading
Monday Missive — January 20, 2020
Quotes “There’s something corny about it,” Soth says of road trip photography. “I’m embarrassed of using that structure. But I keep returning to it.” — Alec Soth “After I snap the shutter I never know if a photograph is truly … Continue reading
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Tagged Alec Soth, composites, Composition, Dune Michals, foreground, Lightroom, Links and Quotes, prison, winter
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Monday Missive — December 9, 2019
Quotes “I see my photography as the expression of a perpetually inventive mind, and all that goes with it, including the doubts and fears, but above all the strong sentiment of never being in the right place.” — Alistair Magnaldo … Continue reading
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Tagged Alistair Magnaldo, Cig Harvey, color themes, composites, exposure blending, fine art, gradients, libraries, Links and Quotes, shadows, surrealism, Vee Spears, Warp, wildlife
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Monday Missive — November 18, 2019
Quotes “I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.” – John Pfahl “Great photography is always on the edge of failure.” – Garry Winogrand “My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.” … Continue reading
Monday Missive — August 19, 2019
Quotes “Your first task is not to figure out what “art” means, or to have an exhibit, write a book, or get business cards that say “artist” on them. It’s to be (and to become) you. . . . “You” … Continue reading
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Tagged Appalachia, composites, glare, glasses, Lightroom, Links and Quotes, locomotive, steam engines, trains
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Monday Missive — June 17, 2019
Quotes “Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.” – Arnold Newman “To be more creative is to get closer to childhood.” — Sarah … Continue reading
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Tagged blend modes, composites, gradient filter, Links and Quotes, masks, selections, shadows
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Monday Missive — May 6, 2019
Quotes “I decided to accept as true my own thinking. I have already settled it for myself, so flattery and criticism go down the same drain, and I am quite free.” — Georgia O’Keeffe via Cole Thompson “Sometimes you have … Continue reading
Monday Missive — March 4, 2019
Quotes “Photography for me is a passion, a mixture of science and art that creates magic. If a day goes by without photography, it’s incomplete.“ – Scott MacQuarrie “The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.“ – Gordon Parks “I like … Continue reading
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Tagged abstract, brushes, color correction, color grading, composites, cropping, Fonts, Links and Quotes, logo, removing halos, travel, white balance
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Monday Missive — February 25, 2019
Quotes “If it’s a likeness, alone, it’s not a success. If, through my portraits, you can come to know the subjects more meaningfully, if it synthesizes your feelings toward someone whose work has imprinted itself on your mind–if you see … Continue reading
Monday Missive — February 4, 2019
Quotes “Fear of failure is the saddest reason on earth not to do what you were meant to do” — J.K. Rowling “I focus on the photographic object, the print, or the artist book, as a keepsake of my experience … Continue reading
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Tagged blur, bokeh, composites, frequency separation, Lightroom, Links and Quotes, Photo essay, retouching
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Monday Missive — December 24, 2018
Quotes “Why don’t you put that old print on the floor and I’ll step on it for you and make it even more vintage.” — Brett Weston to Scott Nichols “A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.” — … Continue reading
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Tagged beaches, black and white, blur, BW, color lookup tables, colorize, composites, gradient map, Links and Quotes, masks, models, photo filter, Photoshop, portraits, shadows, split toning
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Monday Missive — November 5, 2018
Quotes “If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don’t bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware … Continue reading
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Tagged auto functions, composites, Export, Kyrgyzstan, Links and Quotes, macro, saturation, street photography, surrealism, textures, vibrance
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Monday Missive — October 29, 2018
Quotes “The mystery isn’t in the technique, it’s in each of us.” — Harry Callahan, More Joy of Photography by Eastman Kodak (Editor) “Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.” — … Continue reading
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Tagged BW, composites, copyright, culture or social photography, flash, Frames, light, Links and Quotes, Monochrome, nature photography, Photoshop, surrealism, Transparent
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