The Journey Into Art (Experiences)
Doing something difficult
One of my hard things was that I came to photographic art after many years of professional training and experience in science and medicine. I had no formal art training, except for making paper mâché boxes in high school...
The film vs digital paradigm shift.
IF you do the following, you are following a film paradigm (while shooting with a digital camera):
1. You do nothing to the image that comes out of the camera and print without processing...
WYSIWYG - what you see is what you get
It should be plain that you can only capture what you see. Yet when starting out and trying to focus on something to photograph (other than everything), one must see first and then capture the image...
Seeing (and touching) is believing
I have read a fair amount about the southwest US and the ancient ones who had lived there. I have seen many pictures of ruins of their dwellings and other artifacts found. Unfortunately that is all head stuff to me...
Questions About My Work #5 _ What camera gear do you use?
This is the fifth of a series of 5 posts expanding on questions people had asked me when discussing my work and artistic experiences at a recent show. They are published as part of the exploration of my creative life...
Questions about my work #4 _ Why do you care so much about personal experience?
This is the fourth of a series of 5 posts expanding on questions people had asked me when discussing my work and artistic experiences at a recent show. They are published as part of the exploration of my creative life...
Questions about my work #3 - What is unique about my work?
This is the third of a series of 5 posts expanding on questions people have asked me when discussing my work and artistic experiences. They are published as part of the exploration of my creative life...
Questions about my work #2 - Why landscape photography?
This is the second of a series of 5 posts expanding on questions people have asked me when discussing my work and artistic experiences. They are published as part of my exploration of the creative life...