January 27, 2010 by carlatsaunders
What did I learn? There is a really nice group of photographers out there. Don’t cut off body limbs. Think – what do I want to say? I must make the images my own. Be authentic to yourself. Photograph the reaction not the action. Think in metaphors. If I see a place that says to me I need to make a picture. Stay there, sit and wait. And the computer – Copy all raw into DNG when exporting from my camera. It’s not going to rain today. We’ll be at the wall on Valencia and 23rd putting up our images of San Francisco. These images are for the People.
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January 20, 2010 by carlatsaunders
This coming weekend I’ll be working with two great photographers, Emilio Banuelos and Ibarionex Parello. Together along with other photographers we will work in collaboration with each other to capture the people and the culture of one of the neighborhoods in San Francisco. Later, workshops will also be conducted in Guadalajara and Los Angeles. The resulting photographs will be exhibited in galleries in each of these cities, and also in public spaces in these communities. I sat in Starbucks today and practiced taking shots with my second camera, a new G11 Canon. I’m going to be a babe in the woods with this group.
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January 16, 2010 by carlatsaunders
Photos that are high key have a very beautiful look, in which there’s very low contrast with light tones and soft colors – in other words, a scene that’s mostly white/bright. This definition is cut and paste straight out of betterphoto.com! Bright fog came right up to the window. Sun from another window fell on the tulips.
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January 10, 2010 by carlatsaunders
With the help of nature’s fog and a free 15 day trial from Nik Software, Inc. – Silver Efex Pro I came up with this image. My model was a flat rusted sculpture of a man.
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January 4, 2010 by carlatsaunders
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December 31, 2009 by carlatsaunders
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December 30, 2009 by carlatsaunders
Using a tripod I took this shot on Christmas Eve. Apparently the “star” is in a small room at the top of the transamerica building. Three or five people can fit into the space if they make themselves small. f/13, -1.00, 30/1 seconds, did not fire, compulsory flash mode, ISO 100, White balance Auto white balance, 50.00 mm . Canon EOS Rebel XTi
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December 12, 2009 by carlatsaunders
When we were in England, we went to a Point to Point Race. Sometimes the object I am drawing changes my story. One time I was drawing a little berry plant. I had drawn the leaves and glanced up to look at and draw the berry. It was gone! My three year old daughter had walked by, picked the berry, ate it and walked on. In this instance, I was drawing the horse and rider. I looked up to see what my next drawing stroke was going to be and saw the horse falling. With eye to hand coordination I kept drawing. The story had changed.
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December 7, 2009 by carlatsaunders
“Sculpture’s Shadow” placed in the top ten of BetterPhoto.com’s Masterpiece Membership entries. Masterpiece Membership is made up of a group of people from around the world who participate in monthly assignments, exchange of ideas and critiques. For this assignment, Visual Creativity, I worked with light, shadow and color. Instead of taking a photograph of the statue I took a photograph of it’s shadow. To me the shadow almost looks real.
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December 3, 2009 by carlatsaunders
I took this with my iphone then blurred it using Photoshop 6.
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