The Center for Photographic Art has an annual juried exhibition. This year, it is a portfolio event. Not all the exhibited work was to be portfolios — that privilege was reserved for a favored few — but the judging was on the basis of submitted portfolios of eight images. I submitted the following images from… [Read More]
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Some clouds that never were
Also in preparation for this weekend’s presentation, I found a slit-scan image that I’d liked previously. Since I told myself that I was only going to take fresh work, I looked it it with new eyes, and found something that I liked: Too romantic?
One-dimensional sharpening
In the last couple of posts, I talked about how to smooth slit-scan photographs in the time direction. For the time being, I consider that a solved problem, at least for the succulents images. These images require a lot of sharpening, because the subject has a lot of low-contrast areas there’s a lot of diffraction,… [Read More]
Trying to fix the succulent picture
In my previous post, I showed you what happens in the succulent slit-scans when atmospheric haze comes and goes over a seven-hour period. Today, I’d like you to see the results of my attempts to process the images to remove the artifacts (I call them artifacts because I don’t like them; I realize that they… [Read More]
Struggles with the succulent
It’s unusual for photographers to show you their bad images. I’m no exception; while I try to learn from my mistakes, I don’t advertise them. Maybe that’s a mistake itself. If I learn from them, maybe others can, too. While my photography is idiosyncratic and unique to me, the general ideas may translate. So, in… [Read More]