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Creating vs Taking Photographs

December 21st, 2023

Creating vs Taking Photographs

When begining photographers start out, they head out to "take" photographs. The camera enthusiast points their new camera at things and snaps a photograph of a thing. They create an endless catalog of things.

"I saw a bird. Here it is."
"I saw a flower. Here it is."
"I went on vacation - see here is the proof."

Their work never gets beyond this simple documentary process of pointing a camera and pushing the shutter button. Some never make it to the next level.

What's the next level in photography? Creating art. Crafting a photograph as a work of art. Capturing a feeling, a mood, a story. Going beyond a physical object and exploring themes, emotion, envoking memories.

Creating a photograph mean thinking it through before the photograph is take. Thinking about the composition, the lighting and what you are trying to say with the photograph. A created photograph might take days, weeks, months or years before it's created. A taken photograph is simply seen and taken. Stolen if you will rather than made.

What makes a great jigsaw puzzle?

December 21st, 2023

What makes a great jigsaw puzzle?

Jigsaw fanatics know which type of images make for great puzzles. Photographs with lots of color, an interesting subject, a variety of textures and surfaces, is sharp from front to back, photographs with little blank space and images with lots of detail. Signs and text in the image often makes it easier to find pieces.

Pieces with a unique color in a certain area of an image are also fun to find. Little details that can show up on a single jigsaw puzzle piece are fun to find as you instantly recognize where it goes. Lasty the completed puzzle of a framable photograph that they puzzle fan enjoys is the ultimate satisfaction in doing a jigsaw puzzle.

Images that are no fun as a puzzle includes monochromatic pictures, photographs with a lot of blank spaces alike sky, fuzzy photos and images without unique areas.

Minature Golf Takes Me Back

March 22nd, 2023

Minature Golf Takes Me Back

Summer days down at Old Saybrook were spent swimming, building sand castles, fishing off the rocky jetties and crabbing in the tidal marshes. Maybe going for a ride on a neighbor’s sail fish boat if the window was blowing.

Crabbing was always a fun. Just tie a smashed muscle shell or chicken bone to a string and dangle it over the edge of the bank. Little blue crabs would scurry out but you would have to be careful to scoop them up with a net. Often they would ride the bait up to the water’s surface as you carefully pulled up the rope but they would always jump off when they reached the air. I only remember one time getting enough of them to make it worthwhile bringing them home for dinner.

At night there were movies on the beach or bingo in the club house. For a while there was a roller skating rink within walking distance when roller skating was popular. Now its West Marine and Benny’s discount store. But the Dairy Queen is still going and the Italian Ice man still drives his van down to the beach in the summer. I remember a watermelon Italian ice used to be 50 cents and my Dad would always let us get one even if it was close to dinner time.

The other nighttime activity was playing miniature golf. The mini golf place on Saybrook Point was a classic flat course with windmills and other obstacles. None of this hill climbing stuff as you find in Florida where they dig out a pond and create a hill with the fill.

Irene was considered a tropical storm but it whacked the heck out of the Connecticut shoreline. It wiped the classic “Dock and Dine” restaurant off the map and with it the mini golf course. The restaurant still hasn’t been rebuilt but the mini golf course has and it's really spectacular with all the houses representing some classic historic landmarks from the area. Plus it's only $5 which allows locals to revisit the course time and again.

Photographer Visits a Remote Ghost Town in the Mountains of Montana

February 24th, 2023

Photographer Visits a Remote Ghost Town in the Mountains of Montana

Follow along as fine art photographer Edward M. Fielding treks to a remote ghost town high in the mountains of Montana. Elkhorn, Montana was once a boom mining town with 2,500 inhabitants, several saloons and train service. A few decades later it was abandoned. Learn more here: https://www.dogfordstudios.com/ghost-town-elkhorn-montana/

Excerpt: " Silver mining is only a worthwhile pursuit if one receives a paycheck. When the paymaster’s window shuts down for good, the town is worthless. There is no farming, no other industry, only the promise of a cold, hard winter ahead. Best to gather up what you can and catch the last train or last wagon out of the mountains and try your luck elsewhere.

Today, Elkhorn is the smallest state park in the Big Sky state of Montana. In fact, the state only owns a couple of acres around some of the buildings. The test of the place is made up of original buildings taken over as private summer cabins.

Elkhorn is located in Jefferson County, about 50 miles south of Helena. Backcountry roads settle you into a 19th-century mining landscape before you reach historic Fraternity Hall and Gillian Hall nestled within the privately owned town of Elkhorn.

There are no real facilities except for an outhouse at the picnic spot at the edge of town. A few signs were probably first erected when the area first became a state park. Now they sit and rot, waiting for the state legislators to give a damn and drop a few taxpayer dollars on this state’s historic treasure."

New book cover license The Resemblance by Lauren Nossett

October 7th, 2022

New book cover license The Resemblance by Lauren Nossett

My fine art photography has been recently licensed for use on a major publishing release. A novel "The Resemblance"
by Lauren Nossett.

Detective Marlitt Kaplan is first on the scene. An Athens native and the daughter of a UGA professor, she knows all its shameful histories, from the skull discovered under the foundations of Baldwin Hall to the hushed-up murder-suicide in Waddel. But in the course of investigating this hit-and-run, she will uncover more chilling secrets as she explores the sprawling, interconnected Greek system that entertains and delights the university’s most elite and connected students.

The lines between Marlitt’s policework and her own past increasingly blur as Marlitt seeks to bring to justice an institution that took something precious from her many years ago. When threats against her escalate, and some long-buried secrets threaten to come to the surface, she can’t help but question whether the corruption in Athens has run off campus and into the force and how far these brotherhoods will go to protect their own.

Restoring a 1959 Pinball Machine

May 7th, 2022

Restoring a 1959 Pinball Machine

When the pandemic hit my travel plans for Switzerland were dashed and the lockdowns really took the air out of roaming around for photography subjects. I took a break from photography and started to work closer to home on projects involving vintage pinball machines.

My first project was a 1975 Bally Hang Glider pinball machine that I picked up cheap. It was stored under a barn for a while and had been hacked at - but I got it working. Next up was a 1972 Gottlieb World Series machine that had been in the same family for 40 years. Dirty and in need of a tune up but basically fine. Even the backglass was in perfect condition. Next I found a 1961 Gottlieb Egg Head pinball machine. Kind of a quirky machine with a tic tac toe objective. Needed a new backglass and a few fixes but it wasn't too hard of a restoration.

Then I found 1979 Stern Meteor. I updated it to some new code and sound effects, buffed up the playfield, added LED lights, a new rectifier board, fixed a display and it plays great now.

My latest product is a rather beat up 1959 Gottlieb Universe woodrail pinball machine. Follow the progress here - https://www.dogfordstudios.com/bally-hang-glider-pinball-restoration-update/

The Beauty Within Technology

April 18th, 2022

The Beauty Within Technology

Fine art prints, museum-quality framed and matted, canvas prints, acrylic prints, metal prints and more are available from this collection of beautifully photographed technology. Perfect for the office or technology lover.

Art and technology have a complex but meaningful history of working together and influencing one another. In many ways, they have evolved alongside each other to arrive at their place in the world today; a digital age where they constantly overlap and portray new ideas.

More: https://www.dogfordstudios.com/the-beauty-within-technology/

Made in the USA

February 28th, 2022

Made in the USA

"Made in the USA" by fine art photographer Edward M. Fielding (edwardfielding.com) is a new piece featuring a classic vintage American automobile and the USA flag in all of it's red, white and blue glory.

More patriotic images can be found here: https://edward-fielding.pixels.com/art/flag+usa

Tips for buying artwork for your short term rental

February 28th, 2022

Tips for buying artwork for your short term rental

So you are interested in sprucing up your short-term rental space for AirBnB or VRBO. Art can help your rental offering stand out from the crowded field.

Vacationers decide on which short-term rental to book based on photographs. The pictures need to grab the viewer’s attention in mere seconds. The best way to grab attention is through vibrant, compelling, exciting artwork.

But not just any artwork will do. You have to make sure it isn’t too personal and fits the location. Remember, people are traveling to an area with the idea that they enjoy the area. You don’t want to have photographs of Hawaii in your Vermont romantic getaway rental.

The artwork should also be unique. Nothing screams “low budget” more than artwork the view has seen at Walmart.

Short-term rental artwork also has to be affordable. Don’t overspend on artwork and then have to skim on sheets or something. Buying open prints rather than original works can save money.

Also, certain types of prints will be easier to keep clean. Framed artwork under acrylic is safe and easy to clean. So are canvas prints and metal prints. Canvas prints are nice and light also if you need to switch up the artwork.

The following fine prints are great examples of affordable, unique and destination-specific fine art prints that would make for eye-catching and stunning short-term rental photographs.

Keep in mind that a single, very large, bold print will have more impact than a grouping of small prints.

Tips for Better Still Life Photographs

February 17th, 2022

Tips for Better Still Life Photographs

Tips for Better Still Life Photographs


Still life fine art photographs can be some of the most challenging photographs to make. Sure, simply taking a photograph of a group of objects is simple, but making a still life interesting and compelling to look at takes effort.

 

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