Wow I have been so caught up in my ‘pro’ blog I haven’t posted anything on here in ages, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy creating cool stuff! After months of filling my head with learning how to make and use widgets, get links, statistics, Adwords, affiliates programs, traffic funnels, social networks, opt in pages, market research and more I finally felt my creative screaming. I have two new abstract paintings in the works, a new fun way of processing black and white prints for more moody interesting vibe, and a 3d project. The 3d project has be languishing in a corner for 2 yrs waiting for me to even start it, I had picked up a antique ‘shadow box’ kinda wooden thingy and thought it would be great to fill it with photos and objects. I got Lee involved and we spent an hour rummaging around the house and yard for intriguing items and weird ways to use them, I was really impressed with some of the things he came up with! Hope to have that and the paintings finished in time to enter in Red Tree’s holiday show, more on that later.
The new process I am trying out on my photos is a digital version of lith printing. Lith printing uses black and white photos and through various chemical processes happy accidents occur which tend to give glowing, grainy, high contrast prints with pinkish and/or chocolate tones. While you can’t really reproduce the random effects of chemicals in the dark room you can take digital prints add contrast, grain, and manipulate the color tones of the highlights and shadows to cool affect. As a side note to those of you out there who think digital is ‘fake’ and film is ‘real’, do you know just how much doctoring, manipulation, and fakery went into the last 100 plus years of film photography? There is no difference, just the tools change.
Any way I have taken the newest of these ‘lith’ prints and put together a new calendar for 2011 here’s the link
http://www.zazzle.com/black_and_white_photographs_by_sabri_calendar-158900200338006098
