Website Construction

Currently, I am constructing a new website and hope to activate it soon.   This is a challenging and exciting project because it forces me to look closely at all my images, then choose the best, or if not the best, the most meaningful. 

Digital Bromoil is a term for which I have received favor and flack.  I coined this term because it is the simplest way to define that art form.  Basically, Digital Bromoil is a digital art process expressing the traditional in a new way.

HOPI COOKING POT (circa 1920-1930)

Digial Bromoil Image

Making Image Pop

Experimenting with black and white images. Working in digital darkroom to add depth and intensity.

STRAW HAT

Striving for Clarity

The above image of mine sent me on a quest for information and in search of a process for better images. I want crisp, clean images. This weekend I experimented with lenses and cameras and shot several onion images, then compared the results.

What surfaced is: prime lenses are the best for sharpness. An old lens (105mm) performed better than my new 105mm macro lens, however the problem with the old lens is having to focus manually. The above image was taken with an AF-S Micro Nikkor 105mm 2.8 VR lens.

Suggestion: Check out your lenses to see which lenses give you the best results knowing landscapes require different lenses than a still life, or portraits.

Review your images and strive to be better.

Problems with Image Compression--Test

Have found pixels appearing in some of my images online, so am running some tests to correct that condition.

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A CONTEMPORARY GRANDFATHER

Photograph by Elisabeth Bacon

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THE GUARDIAN

Photograph by Elisabeth

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Self Portrait

STANDING TALL

Photograph by Elisabeth Bacon 2009

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A Plan

Note to Self: Pull up images color and black and white. Transform them into sepia. Add the "magic"... the punch to make them pop.

This is my favorite medium. If feels great working in sepia and black and white.