It's crunch time here in the space behind the garage. All those images I've worked on the last few months have to be printed, matted/mounted and ready for a show this weekend at the MAFA Art Walk this weekend here in Old Town Monrovia.This show I'm going to be showing primarily my HDR work as it has been the focus of much of what I have been exploring the last few months. I've blathered on about it quite a bit, and to my pleasant surprise what I have done so far with it has been well received by viewers and collectors. Can't be too far off the mark and certainly something I will continue to work with as it gives me tremendous satisfaction. Just nice to get some reactions from time to time.
The image here is one of the ones I will be premiering that night. It is different from the others in that its intentionally taken down the extreme path to be very impressionistic much like the entire movement in painting early in the last century. The others being shown are very real or surreal but not as painterly as this one.
"Siene Dusk" was shot just as the sun dipped below the horizon our first evening in Paris this spring. I shot it from the Pont de Bir Hakeim near La Tour Eiffel (Eiffel Tower...now you have had your French lesson for the day). I shot it with HDR in mind which means 3 bracketed exposures. I used Photomatix to generate the HDR file from the 3 raw files the camera generated. I used Photomatix as well to do the tone mapping as I prefer it to the version bundled with CS2. Once the tonemapping was done I converted it down to an 8 bit file, worked with color, fine tuned shadows, ran it through the virtual photographer and some arty filters to get this impressionistic view.
I will be at the Paint N Play Studio and Gallery that night as I am one of their featured artists that night. PnP will also be hosting an artists reception, open to the public and FREE concurrent to the art walk. Please feel free to stop in and chat with me!
The details on the art walk.
Monrovia Art Festival Association Art Walk
July 28, 2007 6:30Pm to 9:30PM
400-500 Block South Myrtle Avenue, Monrovia, CA 91016
Watch Metroblogging for the full blog on the entire Art Walk that is set to run 10AM Friday.
2 comments:
I'm not an "Art Lover" by typical standards of someone in your line of business. I don't study it a follow it daily but from time to time, looking at a piece of art is calming and relaxing. In fact we have a lot of inspirational pieces at my work-place.
I must say that I really like this piece here! It's peaceful in a way.
Thanks for the comment. An "art lover" is anyone that appreciates and is moved by what they see. You don't need a lot of knowledge to know if you like it or not. Its when you connect with a piece at some emotional level you cross over to being an "art lover".
Glad you liked what you saw. It's special to me for a variety of reasons, more so knowing that it struck a cord with a viewer.
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