Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
I wrote "Artist Showcase", (not artists' showcase), as it's the intention to have focus on each guest artist's own way of building an image that gets our buy-in and entices us to bond with it. So this is a personal experience of many years of work that will be shared.
For us here, from now on, there are no hard and fast set of rules, so for this section, throw out such notions. There is now no ideal light or time of day, no prohibition on centering an image nor of having a posts line up with a head in a portrait, LOL! Rather, there's the lone photographer with a choice of what must be in the picture and what would ruin it and how it's to be built successfully. There will be commonalities in the work presented. Our first guest photographers, Michael A. Smith and Paula Chamlee will help us discover or rediscover these principles and guides. But we'll also celebrate the individual approaches that define each guest artist's own photographs. Although this is directed to making "art" or "ART", the experience here should help all manner of photography, as all pictures have to be built decisively. Random work might be "harvested" to make art, but that's not the domain of this forum. For such undeniably creative work, look here.
As we meet our guest artist's works, there's an invitation to discuss photographs freely and to ask questions.
Out of this could come for all of us, however accomplished we might be, an enhanced way of seeing and making images that capture the hearts of others, in the way we wish.
Asher
For us here, from now on, there are no hard and fast set of rules, so for this section, throw out such notions. There is now no ideal light or time of day, no prohibition on centering an image nor of having a posts line up with a head in a portrait, LOL! Rather, there's the lone photographer with a choice of what must be in the picture and what would ruin it and how it's to be built successfully. There will be commonalities in the work presented. Our first guest photographers, Michael A. Smith and Paula Chamlee will help us discover or rediscover these principles and guides. But we'll also celebrate the individual approaches that define each guest artist's own photographs. Although this is directed to making "art" or "ART", the experience here should help all manner of photography, as all pictures have to be built decisively. Random work might be "harvested" to make art, but that's not the domain of this forum. For such undeniably creative work, look here.
As we meet our guest artist's works, there's an invitation to discuss photographs freely and to ask questions.
Out of this could come for all of us, however accomplished we might be, an enhanced way of seeing and making images that capture the hearts of others, in the way we wish.
Asher
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