The Journey Into Art

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...

This is the third in a series of Before and After images that shows what came out of the camera and what subsequently went on paper.

This is the image as it came out of the camera and was imported into Lightroom with only the default Camera Raw settings, i...

Driving around the Escalante area in Utah, one is met often with bland flatness or that same old red you see all over the Southwest. Yet a turn in the road or view around a corner can show a dramatically changed landscape...

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...

I have been asked by a number of people to expand on the description of my basic capture and processing workflow as described on the Artist's Process page. It is important for me to share that what I do is not remotely close to point-and-shoot photography...

This is the second in a series of Before and After images that shows what came out of the camera and what subsequently went on paper. This series was spurred by several issues. First was that people regularly ask me if the print was "manipulated...

Many have asked what was the change that I mentioned earlier about this month's print of the month. So I thought I would add this Before & After to the series a bit earlier than planned.

The initial image from Lightroom with some basic modifications...

This month's print is a creative divergence from previous prints.

I love the Southwest US for its openness, grandeur, solitude, history, and scenery. Sometimes when I am standing on an overlook, I get so enamored with the beauty and the moment that I want to jump up and down, run around in circles chasing my tail, dance, sing, and shout...