Tag: print

  • Moot Print

    Moot Print

    Convergent series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, red, blue, vibrant, wedge, shape
    Winter Depression, 2016 — Convergent :: (click to see more)

    I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about why I finish photographs the way I do – in particular, why do I make sized and editioned prints?

    When I began as a photographer a print was a necessary means to an end. It was the only way to see what I had made – I was never able to fully visualize a negative. As my practice evolved from black and white negative to colour slide film, from darkroom printing to scanning and film recording, to digital printing and finally beginning to end digital – I kept making prints as the final outcome of my efforts.

    But the need for a print as a means to see what I’d made or as part of the interpretation process became somewhat moot with slide transparencies and completely so when I began scanning my film to finish the images in photoshop. I could see and interpret without printing. So why make prints – and why make specific sizes and editions? It felt good to have a physical artifact of my efforts but it wasn’t the finished thing – the file was.

    I know the thinking that led to this state, but I’m realizing now perhaps the logic was poorly conceived. Should I keep making prints – or do what instead of making prints? – or perhaps a better question, what do I do now with the prints I do make?

  • To Print or Not To Print

    To Print or Not To Print

    Convergent series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, blue, red, green, vibrant, wedge, shape
    Coriolis Force, 2106 — Convergent :: (click to see more)

    Facemounting works!
    Time to order more resin so I can pour uninterrupted – here we go!

    Been thinking about my process in general and whether or not I should be making prints of my images as I go. I tend not to for lots of reasons but then again there is a visceral feeling you only get when you gaze upon the object. On the one hand I don’t want to clutter my mind on the other I wonder if it would give needed creative feedback. At the moment I’ve separated the printing production process from the image production process – in a way I did that to avoid the emotional conflict that occurs when I’m in the thick of things. It interrupts the flow/my thoughts – diverts me down into minutiae – distracts me from the process of imagining.

    I’m sticking to my method.

    Mould Building #22
  • Print Some Layers

    Print Some Layers

    pulse, storm, Convergent series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, blue, muted, wedge, shape
    Pulse Storm, 2015 – Convergent :: (click to see more)

    I think this is it – corrected some layer issues and tightened up all the masks so all layers add up to a complete image – it’s now 24 layers tall.

    Here is the second renderPrinting is next!

    tropical, storm, Convergent series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, blue, red, muted, wedge, shape
    Glossy Orange Green Blue Candy Layers, 2013 – animated layer render b :: (click to see more)