Fine Art Photographer
I ride the bus here in Olympia and the people are great. This woman’s rings and stockings created a graphic study for me. I shoot a lot of sections parts of human form some drift to abstract, some just wonderful graphic compositions. October 27 my 6th day in Wa. peace pjc
Photographic Art A Silver Gelatin Figure Study.
Dusk at The Artist Enclave in East Haddam Ct. A storm is coming. B + W silver gelatin print.
Low Key Figure silver gelatin print on warm tone paper.
When you have finished manipulation? Do you ever finish manipulation when is the piece finished? When is it Art?
Manipulation isn’t new this image is a study of a pregnant women. Shot on 35mm film at ISO 1600 to gain more grain and texture. It was then printed onto a sheet of 4×5 film giving me a positive image, then contact printed on to a 4×5 sheet of litho film [high contrast film used in the printing industry]this film sees just Black and White and adds more texture and grain. Many steps that I decided on while shooting the original negative in very contrasty studio light. When did it become Photographic Art?
What are your thoughts? When Does an image become Art? peace pjc
C-41, E-6, Silver Gelatin? a mid career dream 1995, Centennial Theater Festival Simsbury Ct. A motion and emotion Photographic Artist. The Willi years perhaps my most creative period, but that is hard to be sure of there are more dreams to come more periods. Pixels and interaction with I-Phonians. Put the camera on auto and become a tripod in the creative process! Artificial intelligence isn’t the same as as emotional cognitive thought. There is no artificial emotion just modes spray and pray. I too now shoot digital one frame at a time, no cropping little post process just my mind and the transformation of light into emotion. No I won’t be posting everything to the social network as soon as I shoot. Instant gratification-instantly lost. The art is in the print not the monitor. Haven’t been posting for a while so I thought I would start with a little of my philosophical rant. Major changes as my heath isn’t good and I am packing up 40+ years of images each created individually by me each has a story, each has a memory few will be deleted as I move 3000 miles west.
peace pjc
Post production on a 4×6 from 1995 add scratches and static like a fine vinyl album played back without remastering.
Silver Gelatin my medium of 40 years