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Hall of “That’s a Shame” Wreck Images
Since 2020, I have been doing inspections and photography of salvaged auction lot vehicles. While hardly a fine art, the exercise is interesting and definitely challenging, as weather and light conditions are rarely ideal Another aspect of the work is seeing expensive toys in a state of sadness. These are a few of my favorite…
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Action Fun
I have always like B&W images in action photography. In this case, I caught the chaos of a fumble in a Navy vs. Air Force game. I have no idea why the dude in the middle was jumping upward, and am guessing that neither did he. I was known at the time for catching embarrassing…
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Film Experimentation
In the days of film photography, I experimented with super-slow ortho/litho high contrast film. It was never intended to capture grey scale images, or action, but when forced, it created some interesting images. In this example, I found the combination of exposure time, super bright daylight conditions, a tick of camera motion, and a wide…
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The Light we Covet
There are two phases of light we covet as humans. Bright blue skies and sunsets. In this case, both were captured from a beach on Guam in 1978, within an hour of one another. This is what makes tropical islands so magical.
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Cropping and Digital Files
Cropping digital images presents an effect on image quality that was not as prevalent in film image capture. When using film, photography using low ASA of 64 or less created a foundation of clarity and fidelity that facilitates cropping and a very extensive range of image output sizes. Further, when digitizing a film original, cropping…
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Enlargement Capabilities
I am using special software that utilizes AI image processing to evaluate and recreate photography for large scale printing, I can produce enlargements of any image up to a max of between 5X and 6X the original file size. To demonstrate what the enlargement will look like, the following images were derived from an original…
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Building on Decades of Passion for Imagery
You are now in my world of photography, where I spend most of my time now. It was once a place of film, dark rooms, and enlargers occupied time and space, creating images of black and white. Today, it’s all about the pixels and digital files, filled with color, detail… instant gratification – and it…
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What File Size Do You Really Need?
Marketing often sells so much sizzle that it convinces us that we must eat half a cow to be satisfied with a burger. In digital imagery, it’s all about the Megapixel (MP). The bigger the better, or so they want you to believe. But, how much of this is real, and how much is hype?…
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