“Art Says” – “Art Does” – “Art Is”
For the following text, you might try substituting the words Artist, Painter, Writer, Actor with Photographer…
Tag Archives: John Neel
Inspiration – “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard.…”
Photographic and creative inspiration can come from many sources. Books, music and philosophy are great places to begin.
Make Your Marks with Studio Artist
Add some brushes to that digital photo! And maybe a bit of animation too! Digital imaging has come a long way in recent times and everyone is looking for…
Size Matters – Looking at Art and Photography
The computer tends to bring everything down to the same level. A painting by Monet, a photograph by Atget or Adams, ads for a camera, a car or an iPod all get the same treatment. There is no real scale, no real texture, little fidelity and no authenticity.
Cliché and Stereotype in Photography
We are all guilty of shooting cliché imagery. Sometimes we just can’t help ourselves. The cliché seems to have been ingrained into our DNA.
Nathan Lyons – Essays,Lectures,and Interviews
“…the eye and the camera see more than the mind knows.” – Nathan Lyons
Camera Lucida and Camera Obscura – Photo DrawingTools
he Camera Obscura allowed the user to see the subject projected onto a ground glass. The projected image could be traced onto a translucent…
The Camera Store – You might have called it the Camera Shop
Believe it or not, there used to be in almost every town, small shops that specialized in selling cameras. Once, not so long ago, the camera store was…
Look and Think Before You Shoot – A Few Photo Quotes
Here are a few quotes by some of the greatest image-maker’s and an essayist, as well as a few images, which I think help to illustrate what is stated.
