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Reecho Revisited #1
Trying some experiments with the Reccho series inspired by the Textile Art of Lisa Call.
Return of Grungy Flowers
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Flag Bouquet
This one started as a digital flag book mock-up. Somehow, it took a left-turn and turned into this long narrow image. Maybe, I will print this on sumi paper and make a flutter book instead.
reecho (an e-book)
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reecho
-verb (used without object)
to echo back, as a sound
Koi Pond
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Morning Glory
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Turning Leaf
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Water Abstractions #3
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Flower Vendor #3
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Geary Road #10
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Geary Road #2
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Heading Home
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Uvas Canyon #13
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Lunchtime Drive-By #4
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Just for fun, check out The Epic of the Ilfordians.
Bodie - Pastel Sketch
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This is a pastel portrait of Bodie. I made this pastel portrait as part of my online class on using Corel Painter through Better Photo. It took MUCH too long to complete and I had to go into Photoshop to fine-tune the colors. You cannot see on the web but there is purple shadows that are lost by the color conversion to sRGB.
Digital Gum Bichromate #7
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Digital Gum Bichromate #6
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I am still experimenting with Painter. This process is reallly leaving the look of a gum bichromate print. I changed my approach to keep the painted layers brighter and this resulted in a lot more color.
Digital Gum Bichromate #5
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Digital Gum Bichromate #4 Reworked
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Tried again with a violet underpainting. I think that the composition is too weak so will move on to another image.
Digital Gum Bichromate #4
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Digital Gum Bichromate #3
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Another try at the digital gum bichromate process. I am still working on my palette. I am not there yet but working my way through near misses.
Digital Gum Bichromate #2
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Another try with the digital simulation of gum bichromate printing. I do not have the color palette correct yet.
Digital Gum Bichromate
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I have started a year-long workshop with Ted Orland and David Bayles. Wow! I am very excited and little nervous to get started. We had our first meeting yesterday. I proposed my project as a portfolio of small intimate B&W landscapes from Sunol Regional Park. While at our meeting, I decided with gulp that I would do a book. Well, consider this image my leaping off point. I wanted to colorize my images ala Brian Taylor’s work with gum bichromate. After looking at how gum bichromate processing works, that is not for me. Way too fussy and hands on.
So, I set out to invent my own version using Photoshop and Corel Painter. This is my second piece (the first is not public). I started with charcoal sketches in Corel Painter. Those sketches were tinted with gold, green and blue. I then blended the tinted images in Photoshop using the Multiply blending mode. The Multiply blending mode simulates multiple exposures in camera. Then, I did tonal adjustments and color tweaks in Photoshop. The image was not working for me. So, I added solarized coloring.
Cantor Entrance
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Work has been very busy but I am going to catch up on my posting. I hope to go out and collect new images this weekend. Here is a composite of the door to the Cantor Museum in Stanford along with a Sunol shot.
Rippling
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With no new images this weekend, I decided to create one.
Stepping Stone
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This is an image for a class assignment. I am taking a Photographic Style course. I chose a subject area of intimage infrared landscapes. The assignment is produce images in three different styles for our subject area.
In or Out?
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What a surprise. I just had an itch to make a montage and another for the Urban Woods series resulted. The base image is the Cantor Arts Center with a shot from Yosemite.
Flying Low
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This is another for the Urban Woods series. Hope everyone had a good Christmas. I have a funny story from my girlfriend. This year, she gave into Christmas tree-itis and put up two trees. Her little boy is 4 years old. Early on Christmas morning, her little boy ran in and woke them up. He says "I have good news and bad news.". Dad says "What is that?". The little boy says "Well, Santa came but he only delivered to one tree."
Flowering
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Another from the out-of-focus series. I am undecided but decided to post anyway.
Floating Peacock
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This is another in my fuzzy watercolor phase.
This work is loosely inspired by child art prodigy, Marla Olmstead, age 4. Yes, she is 4 years old and yes, I love her paintings. See http://www.marlaolmstead.com/mainwork.html.
Elevator to...
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Today, I expected to go out shooting but instead just visited a lot of locations and had a nice outing instead. This image is another for "Urban Woods" even though I thought I was done with the series.
Emergency Exit Only
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This is the same base image as yesterday’s image. Of course, the resulting image has a totally different feel. At this point, I am no longer in active development for "Urban Woods".You may see an image or two being posted. Per my portfolio class, I have decided to start a portfolio called "Meditation Spots". This work is much more like my work before Urban Woods or Grungy Flowers took over.
Limitations
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I made this image when I was depressed about losing Cho-Cho. I made a second image (to be posted tomorrow) with the same background that has a totally different feel.
Streaks of Fall
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This weekend, I decided to take a workshop from Digital Stop with Olivia Parker. We had a very small class. This image was made during the workshop. I like the watercolor effect which mimics Olivia’s technique for starting a composite. She starts with out-of-focus shots and merges them together. My resulting composite is very different though.
