The weather was perfect for the first night of the Waterfront Blues Festival. Robert Cray played a long set to a super enthusiastic crowd. Soon Oregon Music News will have a whole set of these images live. Over the next three days I’ll be shooting a bunch of different acts.
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Reporter and Das Racist
Reporter, a local Portland band opened for the Brooklyn rap group Das Racist for the Soul’d Out Music Festival. I photographed them for Oregon Music News. This weekend I’ll be covering some of the Waterfront Blues Festival. Images to follow shortly.
The Sun Over the Ocean
The Zone System is a methodology used to expose and develop black and white print film for maximum tonal range. Photographers using this system have a saying: “Expose for the shadows and develop for the highlight.” With digital photography, the proper approach seems to be the opposite of that.
At the Mouth of Puget Sound
An infrared landscape from Port Townsend, Washington
Photograph?
What constitutes a photograph? Some people will contend that any digital image is not a photograph by its nature. I think this is inaccurate as the word “photograph” implies that any rendering created from an impression of light will qualify. But how much information is required in that rendering? How representational should it be? How much manipulation can be applied before the image becomes an illustration? The image above is a small area cropped out of a picture taken with my cell-phone. The small rectangle of pixels was up-sampled enough to be printed as large photograph. This has magnified the many artifacts created by the tiny camera. Are these artifacts artifice? The only manipulation was adjustment for levels, contrast and a boost to color saturation.