At each art show I get to spend time telling people my story, because virtually all of them are surprised when I tell them they are looking at a photographic print. These are the three most common questions I am asked at these shows.
What is this I am seeing?
My art is
- A photographic print
- Artistically composed and recorded with a digital camera
- Artistically processed and
- Printed to fine art standards
What do I do?
- I use a digital camera to record images of natural scenes in western Colorado and the Southwest US.
- I personally produce digital photographic prints from capture to print without AI or use of other peoples’ presets.
- Later in my studio I review the images from each photo session from my trips and begin creating my art from the original images.
- For the past few years I have been merging 2-3 whole images into one and then moving and reshaping the forms and then altering the colors artistically to suit my goals.
- Each final image comes from 2-3 scenes from the same photo session.
- After completing a piece, it is print several times until I get the print I want. the
- Offer it in series of 9. It make and artist’s proof, but that is kept and rarely sold.
What equipment and software do I use?
- A dedicated digital camera or iPhone 16
- Adobe Lightroom
- Adobe Photoshop
- Topaz software
- Red River Aurora paper or Epson Hot Press fine art paper
- Epson SC-P900 printer with pigment inks
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