Introducing Myself

Allow me to introduce myself. I am a fine digital art photographer. (Granted, I may not be a fine photographer.) I start with digital camera images and manipulate them in Photoshop CS6 as my fancy dictates. The results are sometimes surprising and sometimes interesting. Occasionally, they are both.

I think of my work as fine art rather than as traditional photography, and hence I call it Digital Fine Art. Images are edited, sometimes heavily, in Photoshop© CS6 Extended or in On1© Camera RAW to achieve effects that I can not obtain with straight photography; I believe in fact that there is no such thing as an unedited image. Ansel Adams used previsualization before tripping a shutter, and his darkroom work highly manipulated his images to obtain the previsualized effect. I am sure that if Adams were working today he would be a Photoshop user. I know and am impressed by Jerry Uelsmann's imagination. Although he works in a wet darkroom, I'd be happy to produce work as strikingly original as his.

For pieces up to 20 by 30 inches I do all my own work, principally using Epson© Exhibition satin-finish canvas on an Epson P6000 printer. Printing of larger special orders are locally outsourced.

Here's a thumbnail biosketch:

Exhibitions

Ongoing monthly or longer group shows at Pinellas Park Art Society, Pinellas Park FL; Stirling Galleries in Dunedin, FL; The Exhibiting Society pf Atrists, Safety Harbor, FL, where I am a member of the board;
City of South Pasadena, FL Annual Show
Group Exhibits at Sun Tan Art in Pass-a-Grille, FL
Two one-man shows at Sun Tan Art in Pass-a-Grille, FL
Group Shows in St Petersburg with St Petersburg Photographic Arts Society
Group shows at ASPEC, the Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College, ST Petersburg, FL.

Prizes

7 in 2017 alone

Memberships

PPAS Pinellas Park Art Society
TESA The Exhibiting Society of Artists
Sun Tan Art
Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College (ASPEC)
Society of Sigma Xi Emeritus Menber

Sales site: Welborne Fine Art -- please visit!

I hope to update this blog regularly with interesting matters. See you!

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