All Things Art & Photography
Good article at Peta Pixel on surviving in a world where everyone has a camera and thinks they are a photographer.
What’s a true aspiring professional photographer to do in the face of this onslaught of people? The answer is simple: specialize and focus.
‘Everyone Is A Photographer’: Specialize or Perish – http://pulse.me/s/l1ubuy8H6
41 Reasons to be exact and very funny….
29. THEY FIND BEAUTY IN THE WEIRDEST PLACES
That includes dirty alleys, places with a lot of poverty or just about any other location normal people would stay away from.
31. THEY WON’T PHOTOGRAPH WHAT YOU ASK THEM
Think having a photographer partner will bring you advantages? Think again. Photographers are very proud and stubborn creatures and they will rarely photograph anything they consider unworthy, unless it’s paid or they like it.
41. WHEN STARING INTO YOUR EYES, IT USUALLY MEANS SOMETHING ELSE
You might find it to be a romantic moment, but it’s usually a process that goes on in their mind and has to do with how they would correct the tiny imperfections on your face.
First Photoshop followed by Lightroom. Lightroom is for processing jobs and groups of images where Photoshop is for high end detail and retouching work. It’s not an either or situation. Both are (for me) indispensable but very different tools.
I have been using Photoshop since day one and it never ceases to amaze me how deep the program actually is. I don’t think anyone can actually know Photoshop completely. The beauty of the software is you can find 2-3 completely different paths that will solve what ever you can visualize in your head. We seem to be in a Photoshop Renaissance of sorts since now a new generation has grown up on it. I think in the future people will look back and see that Photoshop released a torrent of creative energy in photography and no doubt changed it forever. I am now convinced it has freed photography from the chains of the straight documentary image much like photography freed the painters to move from realism to expressionism, abstraction, surrealism etc. All the “bad Photoshop work” aside. I think these are very creative times in photography and Photoshop is the main engine behind it. If you don”t believe me take a look at Thomas Ruffs interview regarding his new large scale “photograms” (which they are actually not). The work is all computer generated and Photoshopped. We are in a new age so go out and make an image no one has ever seen.
Born in 1975 in Bartoszyce, Poland and currently residing in Krakow, Franz Falckenhaus studied and graduated with a degree in Information Technology and Computer related Studies. Although he never had any formal training in the arts, Franz always had an interest in photography, film, and collage.
His collage works are always composed from selected vintage illustrations and images mixed with found paper materials. He skillfully combines self-made elements such as: backgrounds, shadows, and drawings with cleverly chosen photos to assemble them all together into art.
Franz’s style obviously shows recognition of his interest and passion with vintage aesthetics. His subject matter contains a sense of humor and a certain nostalgic feel as well. Being a self-taught collage artist, he sees things a little differently.
The always curious photographer Albelardo Morell is known for making photographs using rooms as a Camera Obscura but he has taken the process one step further by inventing a Tent Camera which projects the landscape viewpoint existing outside the tent onto the ground inside the tent. He then photographs this projection merging ground and horizon image in a new kind of double exposure. His images are currently on view at the Stephen Daiter Gallery.
“I have worked with my assistant, C.J. Heyliger, on designing a light proof tent which can project views of the surrounding landscape, via periscope type optics, onto the surface of the ground inside the tent. Inside this space I photograph the sandwich of these two outdoor realities meeting on the ground. Depending on the quality of the surface, these views can take on a variety of painterly effects. The added use of digital technology on my camera lets me record visual moments in a much shorter time frame– for instance I can now get clouds and people to show up in some of the photographs.”
via the artist’s web site
The Tent Photographs of Abelardo Morell