Jazz Loft Project Exhibition at MOPA

MOPA's exhibition of W. Eugene Smith's Jazz Loft Project is in its final couple weeks, closing on October 7th.  This is an outstanding exhibition and worth the visit.  I was most amazed with how perfect Smith's working prints are.  The design of the exhibition is outstanding, not only do you see fininished product but the process how Smith got there.  If you have a chance to catch this before it ends do so.

http://www.mopa.org/exhibitions

Henry Diltz - Morrison Hotel Gallery

Famed Rock 'n Roll Photographer Henry Diltz , Morrison Hotel Gallery, lecturing at Medium. Another awesome lecture, lucky to catch the last part of it after David Taylor's lecture going on at the same time. Henry's openness and story telling are fantastic. The value of this festival has been huge. Mary Virginia Swanson up next speaking on Presenting your Work to the Fine Art Community.

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Mary Virginia Swanson Lecture - Medium

Mary Virginia Swanson , author of Publish Your Photography Book lecturing at Medium. Awesome person and a great book. If you have DIY or major publishing project ideas this book is a perfect resource. She covers important topics which can make or break a project.






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Medium Festival of Photography

Platinum printing workshop but on by Medium's Managing Director Scott B. Davis. Fun workshop and Scott did a fantastic job showing the process. Waiting for Mary Virginia Swanson's workshop on Publishing next.

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Medium opening

Magnum photographer Alec Soth was the keynote speaker for the start of the inaugural Medium Festival of Photography here in San Diego, very interesting. Looking forward to workshops tomorrow with Aline Smithson and Mary Virginia Swanson.




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Medium Festival of Photography

Great start to the festival, awesome behind the scenes tour of MOPA. I always knew their exhibition space was great but had no idea how incredible their library is. I saw Winogrand images in one book I have never seen before (Thanks Holland!). If you like photography and are in San Diego you need to venture over to Balboa Park and spend some time at MOPA.

www.mopa.org



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ADOX MCC 110 paper

 

I just finished a printing run in the dark room and used ADOX MCC 110 Premium Fiber Based paper for the first time and I am very impressed.  Great tonal range especially when using Photographers' Formulary Liquidol Paper Developer.   I was especially please by the weight of the paper and the surface.  Minimal curl and flattened well.  I have been printing for 30 years and this is probably the best paper I have used in that time.  The Freestyle advisory board member comments about the paper are more detailed and sum it up better than I can.  If you are still printing from negatives consider this the next time you restock your paper.  It produced a solid black and the tone came out very nuetral for me, which I like.   This looks like my new paper of choice.

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Printing

Been too long but back in one of my most reverent places. Spent about four hours cleaning up outside toning sink & installing new fan - can't wait to get some paper in the trays. My darkroom is where I have my deepest focus on life. Also have the new Epson 4900 up and running so digital image prints coming as well. Exciting times, always feel more whole when making finished prints. Check back later to see available prints.

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Olloclip

Another post related to the iPhone. I recently added an Olloclip wide angle lens attachment for the iPhone to my arsenal. Have to admit it captures some amazing images and it is incredibly sharp. It features a fish eye lens on one side, flip it around to a wide angle lens, and take off that ring and it is a macro lens which gets extremely close (limited to one focal plane up close but still fun and better than nothing). The camera phone world gets better and better.








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Snapseed

I have been focused on being more productive especially regarding photography. A couple months back I produced another book, "Is that a Camera in your Pocket?..." for consideration by the Cleveland Museum of Art for their Photographers & Books exhibition opening next month. With this book I looked inward and examined what images I was capturing and creating with my iPhone. Cell phone photography and video capture has become so common place I wanted to take stock of what images I was capturing and what I was doing with them.

I have written before about the double edge of technology in today's photography, on one hand it is easier to capture and create fantastic images but on the other hand everyone has access to this technology and there is a glut of untrained photographers and our culture is saturated with images. Today's post is on one of the positives.

I use Nik software with Photoshop, particularly the Silver Efex Pro 2 for Black & White conversion. On my iPhone I use their Snapseed app for most my image corrections when I want to bump something up. I would guess that over half of the images in the recent book were processed in Snapseed. It is amazing how simple it easily it edits images. Below are some recent examples of Snapseed images

One more example of technology is the fact this post was made from my phone while down by the water.





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