Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
So I was cleaning up around my apartment and I found this one canister of Kodak EIR 35mm infrared film. Woah. Do you know what this is? It’s Kodak’s ultra-rare color infrared film. This stuff is like finding a Black Lotus card in a Magic: The Gathering pack. But here’s the problem. I don’t know…
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All right. I want to use some of my experimental film for this project. A quick check of my archives revealed I had four packs of Revolog boutique film – Revolog is an Austrian company who makes small batches of distressed 35mm film, that when processed provides striking colors or scratches or stripes or what…
Read MoreI’ve spent time working on focus stacking my macro images. But I’ve been inconsiderate. I should share my techniques with you, my blog readers, in case you want to try this on your own. So here’s my first-ever tutorial on how to use Photoshop (I have the CS6 version) to take multiple images and convert…
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I hate feeling cheated. I really do. Here’s the thing. I enter photography competitions with the understanding that if I get any of my artworks to the award stage, I’m happy, and if I don’t get them to the award stage, I try harder for next time. Last November, my friend Melissa Simser Iovino (she’s…
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Last Thursday, I watched a YouTube video on focus stacking – where you take several pictures of an object and then stack them in a photo processing software, which then takes the sharpest edges of each picture and combines them. I’ve tried focus stacking before, mostly in my snowflake picture Mittsu No Yuki. This time,…
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Last week, I showed off some lenticular-like photos – the subject was three home-colored roses that were arranged in a bottle of Saratoga Vichy mineral water. Looked sorta like this. It looks nice …kinda funky … but, as you can see, a small breeze kissed some of the blue petals during my shoot, which caused…
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And the game begins. Iowa. The de facto start for my Competition Season 2019. Yesterday, I mailed a package of four prints to Des Moines. Last year, I claimed my first blue ribbon at the Iowa State Fair when my photo The AGFA Bridge Over Ansco Lake claimed silk in the “Anything Goes” category. That…
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When I get a photo concept in my head, I won’t let the concept go until I’ve actually achieved successful results. I don’t care how long it takes – weeks, months, years – the journey is just as important as reaching the destination. Here’s my concept. I want to take a picture with one type…
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I see these ads on my Facebook feed. They’re usually from a company called Jack Seeds, whose advertisements claim that gardeners can grow exotic plants with vibrant, never-before-achieved colors – all the gardeners need to do is buy these magic seeds from Jack Seeds. Right. And then the beanstalk grows and you get to find…
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There’s an old but strong rule in experimental photography. Part of getting the best photo involves lots of trial and error. You never get it right the first time, but what you learn from that first time will make your last picture awesome. And this is doubly so when you use old film. Depending on…
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