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Back to the basics. Raw image - In camera, cropped, border added and sized. I don't know but perhaps over the years I became reliant on using technology rather than developing true art and craft. So, for the New Year, my resolution is to 'tech' as a tool to excel in my art and craft.

Two in the Plasma Series. I've always admired painters, sculptures, and other visual artists as they can imagine an image and then create it in their style with paint, ink, metal or stone. As a photographer, sometimes I feel limited as I need to physically see (find) or contrive(create/arrange) the

A good self-portrait should tell a story about the subject. In my case, it would not be complete without bringing in some element of my Photography, which is where my Heart and Spirit lie. In this study of....Me, I used a Photo App to help me create my vision: a self-portrait I took in the mirror d

Wondering what the future brings to us. Wondering if the future has already happened, but we haven't experienced it yet. And giving a nod to M.C. Escher. Thanks for taking a look! Right now my immediate future is a trip to the Galapagos Islands starting out from Seattle tomorrow morning and retu

The three photos shown here represent me. The pictures are nothing without me, yet you don't really see who I am. Can anyone else really know you? The whole you? Each of these photos were taken at a bus stop. Most of my adult life, I would take the bus to and from my office in downtown Chicago. I d

Bookmark #5, 2010. My organizational skill for organizing my photography is minimal. 50 years ago, I would put all my negatives in a shoebox in the University darkroom. Unfortunately, they were all lost. 20 years ago, I still used a shoebox, and prints were scattered on my office floor. 15 years a

For Pro Members: Watch the two new videos here: https://www.farberstudio.com/fcv-21-assisting a. The Perfect Assistant - What I Look For b. Interning Assisting is a great way to get started as a photographer, and I recommend beginning as an assistant to multiple photographers, if you have the chan

The image is an AI (Adobe PS -Beta) combination of two photographs. The base image is from the balloon series, and the second, the AI modifier is from the wine refraction group. For me, it's reminiscent of the light shows that were part of live music in the late 60's and early 70's. Base i

I used AI (Midjourney) to create a colorized version of the golden age of Hollywood (Old Hollywood Glamour) style using a photo I took and adding AI text to meet my vision.

For the first day of this new year, 2025, I take you back to 1983, when by some great fortune, I gained access to the opening day of the Atlanta Braves season. My eyes were attentive mostly to the music scene in Atlanta, GA, where I honed my craft for a few years before moving to NYC. However, on oc

My birthday was a few weeks ago and I never ask for presents, except for this one time. I told my wife that I did not want her to buy my gift by herself - rather get people like my daughters or whoever else to chip in to get me a camera I really wanted. I had spent sometime combing through ebay an

As a student of photography I began shooting self portraits early on, finding opportunities in many photographic assingments. As I moved from film to digital I continued to shoot and look for the iconic self portrait images, made much like (Lee Friedlander: Mirror of Myself, 1965) and (Andre' Kerte

These two images are part of a video short based on self-portraiture, perhaps to be part of a longer project at some point. The past six months have provided a couple of those "hinge" moments in life, where foundations and assumptions get turned in unexpected directions. The first image is from May,

Usually I don’t plan my self-portraits and make them when certain force comes, just capturing emotional state in the moment. I guess, in this case, I was feeling melancholic and hid my face behind bird wing feathers as a symbol of freedom and distant observation, using double exposure technique.

Last year, the gas company condemned my entire gas connection and shut everything off because they considered all my appliances unsafe. This happened during the two-week Christmas/New Year period, which meant I couldn't get anything replaced until after the holidays. Thus, I was without heat or a st

This one is after the fact, but when I looked at this image, it reminded me of a Ralph Lauren ad. I made this at a ranch out west. The "model" is an actual cowgirl who works on the ranch. Her outfit and her feminine pose with her face looking down emphasizes her clothing. Her horse frames her nicely

This is an evolving series. The above image is of an abandon building in Cripple Creek Colorado, 2009. (Composite - sky overlay. Canon - A540.) The Machine, view one. Tower Bridge Little Rock, Arkansas, 2015. Sometimes looking up will give you the best image, The Machine, view two. Colorado

Here is my first image using the prompt, "elegant full length woman with modern plastic chair on high key white background": For my second attempt I changed the prompt to "full length tall young blonde woman wrapped in stretchy fabric cocoon on high key white background in style of photographer Joh

These are some images from a photograph of one of my muses turned into an Aubrey Beardsley style art

I've always liked images that were made with Kodak High Contrast Copy film. Although I tried to duplicate the darkroom results using Tri-X and developing in Dia-Fine or Accu-Fine. I was never able to achieve the exactness of a copy film. Yesterday using a Topaz Lab plug-in in Photoshop I discovered

I used PS beta AI to enhance the background in this image. It received a Blue Ribbon at the 2024 Lodi Grape Festival. (color portrait/computer enhanced) Photoshop AI is prompt driven. I used - 'Cubism, pen and ink drawing' as instruction for the background. Below is the original cropped image.

I feel that in my later years I strive to present a friendly cheerful persona to all, because I am that.. But my deeper self with its anxieties, fears and loneliness remains hidden and I think that my friends and close ones have just this one sided and incomplete image of me

1. Paulo Coelho Autograph. Back in 2010, I was invited to a yearly party by the famous Brazilian Paulo Coelho and his wife Christina Oiticica in Melk, Austria. I had been active in Coelho's blog, and we were 100 readers from all over the world who got the invitation to be part of a private party fo

Blindfolded, Seeing without sight. Canon A540. The gambler. Seeing with incomplete information. Canon EOS 1n. X-Ray. The ability to see the imaginary. Canon A540

I took this photograph suring the pandemic when I grew somewhat of a beard for the first time in my life. I made the conection between this self portrait and the hundreds of people I have photographed and decided to write a statement about my experiences. After seeing the first few pictures I deci

Took a trip to Athens to found out the Parthenon is still in construction after almost 3000 years. I like the drama the clouds add to this picture try to use photoshop to erase the people but my technic in photoshop is not that big.