I don't have much on this one

So I found this single image on some Italian art blog From what I could get form it it is an instillation where they flooded the entire space with colored light, maybe fog? Ether way it's really cool.

Ryan Schude

Ha ha something different pics on top for this one.

This is an artist working out of L.A. Has a vary Gregory Crewdson feel to the images he is creating, but I was looking at how in his images he'll have multiple light sources and the way he is using light balance, also i'm sure these have be edited to hell in Photoshop, but there still really cool.

Maurizio Anzeri

These are really amazing altered images more for the precision that is used to create the images. Well not the image it self, i mean the images alone are good, but when paired up with the high level of embroidery that is being used really creates an amazing composition, I also kinda realized why i had such a lack of motivation last week, i didn't drink any coffee all last week i wasn't trying to it just sort of happened, and never occurred why i wasn't feeling good, i was going through withdraw, literally i lost a day to sleep, because i couldn't get myself to get out of my bed, i just need to drink a pot a day again, and fixed my self a pot tonight and that would explain why i'm blogging at 2:30 in the morning, i'm kinda wired, can i stay up two night in a row? I think i'm going to find out if it is possible.

John Stezaker

Even though this artist is using found images and is altering them I like them for there simplicity in creating am image, but love the complexity of compositions that are created by combining two different images together into a single composition.

Nina Chakrabarti

Even though I know what i'm doing with my digital imaging project I'm still looking a artist who do post production work to photographs and found these images really interesting in that they are simply done, but add an additional dimension to the photographs with simple line work added to the photograph.

Koen Hauser

These images are different then the project that we are working on, but the fact there digitally manipulated makes the relevant, but also they are really interesting in the way he used scientific anatomy models and merged them together with real people just interesting. I couldn't found a web site with this work, there is one for an artist with the same name but i really don't think it is the same person. So I really can't tell you about his statement or any thing else about him, but the images really speak for themselves. I was actually thinking about studio light ing and if this could be done in there that's when it hit me that what makes these images so convincing is that they are and have to be photographed in the same lighting set up to get the two images to converge in a way that can not be noticed.

Lisa Dahl

So I was looking at this artist more because the way she treats the photograph is more in line with the way I'll be treating my photographs in my next series in digital imaging. Where as she is photographing suburbs and removing the house to reduce it to a basic form, I was thinking for doing something along the same idea, but photographing people, and removing there identity be altering the photograph after the printing the image. she uses other objects and materials to cover the photograph, like acrylic paint, jewels, and glitter, I'll forgo the glitter.

Leatha Wilson

So I was look at this photographers/sculptor work not for in the direction that I want to pursue in the next project, but more to show how on this project we really are not limited to just two dimensional work or objects to alter the photograph. In her artist statement she is using these objects to become identifiers of the real to remind the viewer that the photograph is just a substitution for the real. I also like the wide variety of materials she uses and the combination that she uses the effectively with the photograph.

Alex Cherry

Again another artist that I think is doing really interesting things with photo-manipulation, and again I'm faced with another horrible artist website. So again I have no background information on this artist, but if you go to his website all you get is a gif of him, and clicking on it only opens up your email. That being said, I like his use of color and stark white backgrounds.

Jenn Violetta

So this artist is working with computers for more photo manipulation and effects then digital collage, but its really interesting, pretty dark. She doesn't have a website other then a tumbler site, so I really can't tell you any more about her other then showing her work.

Alex Fischer

So just looking around the internets and I found the work of Alex Fischer who dose really incredible work because I thought they were done with more traditional techniques, but he these are digital collage. The look and arrangements of his compositions have a really feel and mood to them, most of all the are kind of creepy which I like, any is website is here check him out. I've also noticed that artist websites like side scroll am I the only person who does not like this?

Dada Collage

For this first project I'm interested in creating constructed spaces through collaging elements together. One source of inspiration is the dadaist collages I've always had a fascination with the dadaist movement and pull a lot of inspiration from them.

Carlos Diaz

I selected the work of Carlos Diaz, because I like the work he is producing, and also for the face that it is vary different from the type of atheistic that I would normally be drawn to. My preference tends to lend itself to to darker imagery as well as utilizing texture. I originally thought these images were done digitally, but after reading his statement he hand collages each image individually, insuring that there are only individual images that exist. He uses vintage images on photographs to create other worldly environments. Photo Eye Gallery


Also, I guess there is something about being called Carlos and being awesome at this sort of thing.

Carlos Tarrats

So the artist that I am looking at Carlos Tarrats. I like his use of textures and shapes with in his photographs color and the environment that he constructs for his photographs. Now when I say constructs he creates an image by constructing the whole image photographing then printing. So he isn't using digital photo manipulation but I like the effects, texture and compositions that he creates, and would like to try to emulate that style by creating a digital image. I would like to find his web site, but I couldn't find one with a search, but he is on photo eye. Here

Lucia Holm

I found this artist while looking for artiest for my a photographer for my Studio Lighting class, but since she does post digital manipulation I figured that i could probably use her better here. In her bio she graduated with a BFA at Rhode Island School of Design in 2004, and got her Masters in 2006 from the New York Academy of Art. However, she goes on to say she "needed a break from the paint brush and that she started photographing as a hobby." Which is Ok, I think it shows in some of here images on her web site, and there is no telling how much Photo based courses she took in college because she never tells us. The only thing really worth looking at are her self portraiture, because there are some really great single images. But they are only ever a single image never a body of work, and I think that it is too far of a stretch to say that all of theses are connected because they are self portraiture. She could take some of the single images and expand on them, and do a series then she may actually develop bodies of work from a single image. This is a link to her Website.

Archiving

First post and all I'm not going to go into any thing too deep here. I guess just expand on what Haley was saying about backing up your information. I used to not be too concerned about it but, last year Jonathan in my sequence as story class had a major break down of his external hard drive, which led to the loss of large collection of his work, and images for projects, and after a scare with my computer over the summer, I make sure to back up everything. Luckily I didn't lose anything And as of yet I don't have an external hard drive, but I bought a big stack of DVDs last year to pull everything off my student desktop at school, ever since then I have been putting all my images on to DVD as a physical form of media storage that has an extremely low failure rate, sort of scratches. But keep the in a secure place, as well as write on each the contents of the disk for easy access to my files if the ones on my computer were to be lost or corrupted. I put the RAW file and the converted tiff file onto the same disk for the images more so that I don't need to re-convert the RAW file in to tiff again, maybe because I'm just lazy, and so that I have both formats if necessary it's unlikely that I'll ever need both, but I'm not going to take any chances and go ahead and keep both.