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Dano’s Glossary of Fine Art Related Terms
July 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment |
Thought you knew what a hickey was? Never knew paper had a tooth? Had no idea it out gasses? Learn these terms and you’ll not only be able to speak more knowledgeably about printing, you’ll also know what to look for in prints and how to get the best results in your prints.
Epson’s Dan Steinhardt assembled a great Glossary of Fine Art Related Terms.
It’s not published; it’s a useful resource that’s circulated around the web.
Dano generously shares it with us here!
Thanks Dano!
Find out more about Dan Steinhardt here.
Bookmark this post and you’ll be able to quickly find terms anytime anywhere.
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Dano’s Glossary of Fine Art Related Terms
Abrasion Resistance
The resistance to scratching of a surface of paper by other paper surfaces or other materials.
Absorbency
The ability of a material to take up moisture.
Acid Free
(Neutral pH of 7.0) During paper production, treatment employed with a mild base is employed to neutralize the natural acids occurring in wood pulp. Buffering may also be used to prevent the formation of additional acids. If prepared properly, papers made from any fiber can be acid free. Read more
Condensation – How Looking Inward Illuminates The Outside
July 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment |
All photographs are about light. The great majority of photographs record light as a way of describing objects in space. A few photographs are more about spaces they represent than the objects within those spaces. Still fewer photographs are about light itself.
Time, space, light. All the things this work is about are ultimately missing from the final product – the print. Put it in a dark room and there will still be no light. Touch it and you’ll find it’s flat. Consider it for an extended time; you’ll change but it won’t. Curiously, these conspicuous absences within the print make what’s missing more intensely felt. How does absence make something more clearly experienced? Perhaps it’s that the gap between representation and reality gives us pause and begs us to more carefully reconsider the world around us and the experiences we have in it, at first as a way of verification but later as a way of celebration. Read more
Correspondence – How Feeling Connected Makes Better Images
July 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment |
Correspondence
The first thing I do when I walk outside is look up. The next thing I do is scan the horizon. Hopefully, there’s water nearby; no matter how active or still it is, I’m mesmerized by it. I’m always looking at the sky, the horizon, and water for information and inspiration. Sometimes I stare for hours. More often than not, just for seconds or minutes. I consider myself luckier the longer I look. I have no idea how much time I’ve spent gazing at these things, but I’m always rewarded – if not with an image, then with a new state of mind. That’s how these images were made, through the accumulation of a lot of looking. These images are meditations. They’re an invitation to look closely at looking. They’re an invitation to see more fully, more deeply, and in many ways. Read more
Reflection – What Still Inspires Me After 10 Years
July 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment |
What child hasn’t spent scattered minutes, accumulated into hours or even days, watching slowly unfolding clouds and the changing sky? Wondering what they were, are, and will be. Imagining bodies (either whole or in pieces, especially faces), animals (whether commonplace, exotic, or mythical), plants, landscapes, and even mechanical devices. Who doesn’t pause at the sight of the blazing colors of the morning and evening sky? How few pause long enough to see the stars begin to appear? How strange to think that the same sky is blue by day and black by night, studded with twinkling stars. Are we like this too? Why do so many adults cease to probe these mysteries as consistently and frequently and with as much curiosity as a child does? What do we lose when we lose the search? Read more
White Sands – Barbara Ventura – New Book
July 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment |
Barbara Ventura shares here wonder and amazement for one of the most beautiful deserts in the world – White Sands, New Mexico – in her new book.
Find out more on my Alumni blog.
Learn more about my White Sands worshop here.
New Work 2010 Exhibition Preview
July 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment |
Here’s an interesting sampling of images from my upcoming exhibit – New Work 2010.
All of the source images for the ground in these composites are drawn from Iceland.
While the body of work (Reflection) isn’t site specific, it’s interesting to note that many of the images are drawn from similar locations. In the case of the ground exposures a majority of the sources came from Iceland, Utah, and California.
When successful work becomes more site specific like this I ask “What was it about that place that worked so well?” or “What was it about my experience of that place at that time that worked so well?”
Then I plan to return to that location and/or that state of mind.
Find out about my Iceland workshop here.
Preview the book here.
Learn more about my upcoming exhibit here.
New Book – Condensation
July 23, 2010 | 2 Comments |
“Condensation reveals a mysterious series of images, hovering on the brink of abstraction, stripped of everything nonessential, leaving little more than pure essence. These photographs are not only about the light-filled spaces they represent, but also the inner state of illumination passing through them brings. With extraordinary simplicity and directness, they lead us down a path of perception encouraging us to turn inward and take a mystical journey through ever increasing stages of awareness; thinking, associating, self-reflecting, centering, meditating, praying, and contemplating.”
45 images
Inspiring text
New Book – Correspondence
July 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment |
New Book – Reflection
July 21, 2010 | 3 Comments |
“Reflection presents selections drawn from a powerful series of works, remarkable for their tranquility, clarity, and depth. Images of bodies of water and the skies reflected in them become metaphors for changing states of mind. Together, they chart a progression of consciousness moving from calming, to clearing, and finally to illumination. Throughout this progression a growing intensity builds as the gaze is focused more directly and deeply into the source of illumination. The images become mirrors for continued reflection, invitations to look, and look again, and to look at looking.”
You’re Invited ! – Annual Open Studio Exhibit – 7/31-8/1
July 19, 2010 | 1 Comment |
You’re invited! Come visit my annual open studio event July 31 – August 1 from 10-5. Gallery talks are at 2.
It’s been one of my most prolific years to date. Producing more than one hundred new images, four bodies of work, in progress for ten years, have been brought to completion. The results are surprising, even for me.
Three new books featuring this work have been released – Reflection, Condensation, and Correspondence – which you can preview and purchase online.
Also on hand will be my playful iPhone photo sketches, some of which are featured in my column on the Huffington Post. I’ll even take, process, and transmit some during my daily artist’s talks at 2 pm.
Come enjoy prints, books, web galleries, performances and conversations during this very special event.
Click here for more information including directions, previews, reviews, statements, audio, video, and press kit.
Carl Safina – The Gulf Oil Spill’s Unseen Culprits & Victims
July 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment |
Warning. This will upset you. Carl Safina makes an emotional appeal for reform as he presents the facts of the gulf oil spill.
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The Best Photoshop & Lightroom Books
July 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment |
Find 9 of the best Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3 books among 33 great books on digital imaging. I personally recommend them all.
D65’s Lightroom Workbook – Now Shipping
July 16, 2010 | 1 Comment |
Seth Resnick and Jamie Spritzer, the Co-Founders of D65 announce their new book, D65’s Lightroom Workbook, Workflow, Not Workslow in Lightroom 3. D-65’s workflow is accomplished by using Adobe Lightroom. D65’s Lightroom Workbook, Workflow Not Workslow details everything you ever wanted or needed to know about the five modules in Lightroom, including setting up preferences for optimal results and organizing catalogs. Included is an entire chapter which details the D-65 legendary workflow; an advanced, yet simple workflow from capture through editing, tweaking, processing and exporting. The book also covers many digital concepts such as color space, shooting raw, file naming and archiving. D-65 was one of the first and foremost companies teaching Lightroom workflow, and the incredibly successful program has taught thousands of photographers worldwide. Seth Resnick and Jamie Spritzer are the perfect guides to lead you through the maze of technical problems and practical challenges that stand between you and a seamless digital workflow with Lightroom at the core.
• The essential guide to setting up an efficient workflow with Photoshop Lightroom from two of the industry’s most respected photography trainers
• Insider tips and tricks explain not only how to use Lightroom but also how best to work pre-capture to ensure you get the best out of Lightroom post-capture
• Over 500 pages packed with essential advice and stunning images to illustrate and inspire, Seth and Jamie explain technical concepts with ease in a way only pro trainers can–buy the book and see why their workshops sell out in a flash!
“Seth and Jamie have laid the chapters out in a quick read style that follows Lightroom’s architecture from beginning to end. And you can fit their guidelines to your own style of shooting and your own way of organizing your digital image archive. It doesn’t matter how expensive your camera is, or how many megapixels are on its sensor, because this book gives you the knowledge and the discipline to make the most of the tremendous possibilities of digital photography.” – Eric Meola, Photographer
“No one knows more about keywording than Seth and Jamie. As an English major and a writer, I thought I knew a thing or two about words, but I learn new words and new ways to use words all the time from Seth and Jamie. What’s that mean to you? It means if you learn to use words like they do, everyone will be able to find your pictures easily – including you.” – John Paul Caponigro
Find more of the best Photoshop and Lightroom books here.
Alumni Harry Sandler’s New Book – iPhone Antics
July 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment |
Alumni Harry Sandler’s new book highlights his delightful iPhone photographs.
Preview iPhone Antics online here.
Read my iPhone articles on The Huffington Post.
Find iPhone accessories I recommend here.
Alumni Chris Alvanas’ New Book – Apple 3GS
July 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment |
Chris Alvanas has been keeping his photography fresh with his iPhone.
See it in his new book Apple 3Gs.
Read my iPhone articles on The Huffington Post.
Find iPhone accessories I recommend here.
Alumni Ken Carl’s Book – Deeply Rooted
July 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment |
Preview workshop alumni Ken Carl’s new book Deeply Rooted here.
How Poachers Become Conservationists
July 11, 2010 | 1 Comment |
Explore my Namibia Google Earth map here.
Find out more about my Namibia workshop here.
Search Flickr By Color With MultiColr Search Lab
July 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment |
Idee’s MultiColr Search Lab lets you search over 10 million Creative Commons images on Flickr by color using their visual similarity technology.
Learn more in this video. Then try it!
NAPP Exclusive Webcast Today 3-4 PM
July 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment |
NAPP members can enjoy a free exclusive webcast today.
Friday, July 9, 2010 from 3:00 – 4:00 PM EST.
Plus you’ll also find 3 free videos from their June 25 NYC CS5 Summit.
Log in to the NAPP members website here.
Where to Put ICC Profiles
July 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment |
ICC profiles need to be filed in the correct location on your computer for them to be available to applications.
Where do you put them? It depends on the system and version you’re using.
Mac OS X
– Library / ColorSync / Profiles – storing profiles here allows all Users to use them.
– Users(Username) / Library / ColorSync / Profiles – storing profiles here makes them available to the current user only .
Windows 7, Vista and XP
– Windows \ System32 \ Spool \ Drivers \ Color
– Right click on the profile and select “Install Profile” to copy the profile to the directory.
– Profiles need to be copied manually to the directory to replace profiles.
Mac OS 9.x
– System / ColorSync / Profiles
Windows 2000 and NT
– Winnt \ System32 \ Spool \ Drivers \ Color
– Right click on the profile and select “Install Profile” to copy the profile to the directory.
– Profiles need to be copied manually to the directory to replace profiles.
Windows ME and 98
– Windows \ System \ Color
Apple’s ColorSync Utility displays details of individual profiles, shows gamut plots, can rename profiles, validates profile structure, etc.
Microsoft’s has a Control Panel Applet installs and removes profiles, edits internal and external names, creates 3-D gamut plots, compares profiles, etc.
Learn more in my Fine Art Digital Printing Workshops.
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