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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.
Creative Endeavor
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.
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