Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Sacred Sunday
What could be more sacred in the landscape of a Christian based country than a church steeple. I can't name the church, and I'm not even sure of the location: maybe Savannah or Charleston. But the Christian church was established on the east coast of the USA early in the history of the country. The image just grabbed me; I was in the right position at the right time and so I pointed and shot. I like the angle of the steeple and its color against the contrast of the blue of the sky.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Art News
Interested in photography? Here's an event to consider.
Photo Slam
Oklahoma City Art Museum
415 Couch Dr
OKC, OK
Oklahoma City Art Museum
415 Couch Dr
OKC, OK
May 19, 7pm
Twelve selected photographers will have 5 min. to speak and present work.
What a great 60 min. of info. & fun!
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
POGO 2
I must add another wonderful thing about the POGO prints: when you peel off the paper backing they will stick about anywhere!
Monday, June 7, 2010
POGO
Alleluia! I got the POGO printer to produce prints; amazing prints!
I first heard of POGO on the web site of Opie & Linda O'Brien www.burntofferings.com when Linda mentioned the Opie never left home without his POGO.
POGO is a Polaroid product, and I decided I must have one! So it was my Christmas gift to myself. Then came to challenge of getting it to work. Even after several calls to the company, still nothing. This evening I was determined to try again. I plugged everything in, and everything popped up on the screen just as it was suppose to and I was in business. Maybe it was the classical music playing in the background?!
I said amazing prints, not perfect prints. But considering the size (2"x 3") they are great, and what potential for my mixed media work.
Oh, the fun I will have with my POGO.
I first heard of POGO on the web site of Opie & Linda O'Brien www.burntofferings.com when Linda mentioned the Opie never left home without his POGO.
POGO is a Polaroid product, and I decided I must have one! So it was my Christmas gift to myself. Then came to challenge of getting it to work. Even after several calls to the company, still nothing. This evening I was determined to try again. I plugged everything in, and everything popped up on the screen just as it was suppose to and I was in business. Maybe it was the classical music playing in the background?!
I said amazing prints, not perfect prints. But considering the size (2"x 3") they are great, and what potential for my mixed media work.
Oh, the fun I will have with my POGO.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Bye, bye, film
My friendly neighborhood photo center has removed the film processing/printing machine. All film must now be sent out to Fuji labs, even to reprint negatives. I guess I knew it was coming, but not soooooo soon. Film will become only a memory.
Oh, the memories! I got my first camera when I was ten. It was a Kodak Brownie with 126 film; black & white of course. It was two blocks and across Lyndale Ave to the drugstore that did the photo finishing. With the completed order came coupons for enlargements: 25cents for a 5x7 and 50cents for an 8x10. I would take photos of my baby sister; I would prop her up on the bed and use a gooseneck desk lamp for the light. With money from my allowance I'd get an enlargement (I still have some of the 5x7's). I felt like a real photographer!
Oh, the memories! I got my first camera when I was ten. It was a Kodak Brownie with 126 film; black & white of course. It was two blocks and across Lyndale Ave to the drugstore that did the photo finishing. With the completed order came coupons for enlargements: 25cents for a 5x7 and 50cents for an 8x10. I would take photos of my baby sister; I would prop her up on the bed and use a gooseneck desk lamp for the light. With money from my allowance I'd get an enlargement (I still have some of the 5x7's). I felt like a real photographer!
Saturday, March 13, 2010
C, Y, & M
Wow! I got a look inside one of the photo print kiosks recently. What wondrous machines they are. Everything is done dry with light and tinted plastic.
The three colors are:
Cyan
Yellow
Magenta
The three rolls of tinted plastic attach to the photo paper in order as instructed by the machine as it reads the image. Then a final clear plastic protective layer is added. And in just a few minutes your finished print appears.
Years ago I printed 8x10 wedding photos by machine. I sat at the machine, hand fed the negatives into the machine and read the proper exposure with my eyes. Then once the entire roll of paper had been exposed, I unloaded it from the machine in total darkness, slipped it into a light-fast bag and delivered for the developing process (to be run through a batch of chemicals), and then dried and cut. This wet system is quickly disappearing now that digital is here!
The three colors are:
Cyan
Yellow
Magenta
The three rolls of tinted plastic attach to the photo paper in order as instructed by the machine as it reads the image. Then a final clear plastic protective layer is added. And in just a few minutes your finished print appears.
Years ago I printed 8x10 wedding photos by machine. I sat at the machine, hand fed the negatives into the machine and read the proper exposure with my eyes. Then once the entire roll of paper had been exposed, I unloaded it from the machine in total darkness, slipped it into a light-fast bag and delivered for the developing process (to be run through a batch of chemicals), and then dried and cut. This wet system is quickly disappearing now that digital is here!
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