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God's Canvas - StudioJ - Apr 8, 2005

The sky has been spectacular the last few weeks and amazingly enough I've been able to capture it a few times. I sell a few prints to a local stock agency and through a few cafes (when I have semi chic subject matter). I did this one up as a 16 x 24" and gave it a slight blur to emphasize the streaking cloud patterns and hide a bit of the digital artefacts from enlarging it. Once it is framed I'll take a pic of it and then another when its hanging at the cafe. My work isn't that fantastic so you guys should be out there selling yourselves if you want to make something from your passion.



Edit: This shot has only been sharpened and a Provia action run on it. Shot with 300D and 18-55 (my only wide angle) and Circular Polarizer.

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God's Canvas - Peted - Apr 8, 2005

YUM, I just love clouds, very nice. Reminds me, must take more shots of clouds.

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God's Canvas - slejhamer - Apr 8, 2005

Nice pic, nice suggestions.

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God's Canvas - shuttertalk - Apr 8, 2005

Gasp! Where's the model, J? I'm shocked!!

Heheh, no seriously, some very nice and unique shapes there. I like it!

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God's Canvas - Petographer - Apr 8, 2005

Fantastic colour J. Very nice.

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God's Canvas - Irma - Apr 8, 2005

Beautiful picture SJ, I like the font you used in the frame. The title is perfect!

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God's Canvas - Kombisaurus - Apr 8, 2005

ok.. whoever you are posting this, let Jamie back on the PC with his girlie pics! ;P hehe

That's great Jamie. Its tough to get a good photo of *just* clouds and still keep it interesting, but you certainly manage it with that photo. Lovely colours, great depth in the clouds, and the pattern they form is just wonderful.
My only (very minor) criticizm is with the title. I think "God's Canvas" sounds a little bit cliche and certainly gave me a very different expectation of what the image might look like. I'm sure lots of people with disagree with me on that, and I'm beginning to think I'm turning into a cynical old ******* who is hyper-sensitive to this kind of thing.... but for me, I read the title as the subject of the thread, and was expecting a grand dark dramatic scene of biblical proportions with thunder and lightning and moses standing on top of a mountain and so on. The image you have is excellent (and is dramatic), but in a very different way with a very different feel to it. Maybe its my parents fault for bringing me up a heathen? hehehe.. I don't know.
I think when I see the word "God" and "canvas" together my mind probably associates it with a number of renaissance paintings, with all those thick heavy lashings of dark rich colours; reds, yellows, blacks, and dramatic and very serious religious scenes. Not the bright, warm, airy, light feel of your image.
Take that comment with a grain of salt though - in the end it's the image that matters and you nailed it.

So.. which Cafe's should we visit to see some of your work?

StudioJ Wrote:you guys should be out there selling yourselves if you want to make something from your passion.

Well that's a direction I'd love to take, and I regard what I'm doing now as "training" myself for that goal.
I'm not looking to change careers into photography, but if I could eventually sell enough photos to pay for my gear and allow me to get the lenses and bits I want without feeling guilty about the price tags, then I would be very happy. If I could also get it to pay for the occassional few days up in the Kimberley's or to Tassie to take photos, then it would be a dream come true (but that isn't my initial goal).
I don't want it to become a "job" though, as I fear I will lose the passion and enjoyment I have doing it now.

I think I've still got a fair way to go before I'm content enough with my own images to try to sell them, but when I look back at some old photos which I thought were the best I could do at the time, I can see I'm making good progress in the right direction.

I'd love to buy you a coffee and get some advice from you about this sometime Jamie if you wouldn't mind? (my shout! ) Especially about selling stuff through Cafe's and stock photography... and also sports photography, as I have excellent access to many elite athletes in quite a range of sports (although I'm discovering just how bad I am at shooting them).

But don't worry, I won't hassle you with a million questions at Kings Park tomorrow.

Cheers
Adrian

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God's Canvas - EnglishBob - Apr 8, 2005

Wonderful.

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God's Canvas - Kombisaurus - Apr 8, 2005

Irma Wrote:Beautiful picture SJ, I like the font you used in the frame. The title is perfect!

hahahaha.. Irma, you must have written that just as I was writing my post (your post wasn't there when I started writing mine).

See.. I said lots of people would disagree with me about the title!

Cheers
Adrian

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God's Canvas - guerito - Apr 8, 2005

Great shot, J! It makes me curious what the landscape underneath would look like. But this is no critique, I love the pic as it is.

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God's Canvas - Irma - Apr 8, 2005

Adrian;
The thing is that the title goes together with the picture. You saw the title, and while you click and had the picture in the screen, you had time to guess what it was. The spectator will see the title together with the picture, he/she will interpret the word God in the way he/she wants. My interpretation in this case is, God=Nature painted this in the canvas=sky to me

Irma.

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God's Canvas - Don Schaeffer - Apr 8, 2005

Magnifique! I love the way you composed this. It does a little puffy dance all the way down the image.

--Don

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God's Canvas - StudioJ - Apr 8, 2005

guerito Wrote:Great shot, J! It makes me curious what the landscape underneath would look like. But this is no critique, I love the pic as it is.

Suburbia, a couple of rooftops, tv antennas and a few trees.

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God's Canvas - StudioJ - Apr 8, 2005

Thanks guys,

You can harass me anytime you want Adrian. I know someone that has a lot of the sports (non-motorsport) action tied up in Perth but if you have contacts it could always help.

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God's Canvas - Peted - Apr 9, 2005

By the way are you using a special border tool or doing it in PS or something?

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God's Canvas - StudioJ - Apr 9, 2005

Just hand made in PS Pete, its not a big job, background colour to white, canvas size up 2 px each direction, background colour to whatever I want the matt to be then change the canvas size again +40px and then another 30px on the bottom for the title.

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God's Canvas - Peted - Apr 9, 2005

Thanks. Was wondering if you had setup some scripts, I do similar in PS but was thinking that should be an easy way to automate it.

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God's Canvas - StudioJ - Apr 9, 2005

Pete,

There is a nice little package out there by the name of "Digital Film" it is probably the best utility I can suggest if you want to batch add borders & matts to your photos. Aside from that it also imitates Velvia and T-Max and applies signatures and watermarks, the reason I use it is for the watermarking feature as it allows me to use a .psd file and when batching set half to one location and half to another.

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God's Canvas - Peted - Apr 9, 2005

Thanks, do you have a link to that tool, Google comes up with lots of links but appear to be it.

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God's Canvas - StudioJ - Apr 9, 2005

Sorry, very slack of me, link below...

https://www.qwerks.com/Product.asp?ProductID=7302

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God's Canvas - Peted - Apr 10, 2005

Thanks, that link was weird, took me to Paypal. Worked it out though.

Cheers

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God's Canvas - loopy - Apr 13, 2005

J - just looking at that program now and I'm interested. You have the full version? Did you have to download it or could you get a copy sent out on CD? Can't seem to find anywhere on the site that mentions it... I can't d/l anything on this computer, so if I want to buy it, it has to be on CD...

Cheers,


Brad

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God's Canvas - Peted - Apr 13, 2005

Just go to https://www.qwerks.com and search for the program "Digital Film".

I got it that way and it is a demo version, if you like it then buy it.

Cheers.

Pete

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God's Canvas - loopy - Apr 13, 2005

Thanks Pete - I found it there, what I'm asking is if anyone has ordered it on CD as opposed to downloading it. I can't transfer anything I download onto this computer to my computer, so I've got no way to use it if I have to download it. It looks like a great program though.

Cheers,


Brad

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God's Canvas - Peted - Apr 13, 2005

I am thinking that you may have to talk to Jamie about a clanestine drop somewhere around Perth.

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