by seaside lichens
A few more photos from the rainforest by the Pacific —lots o’ lovely lichen!
I’m still busy uploading more images of my work to my ‘gallery’. It is slow going as I deal with the oldest printworks from early days before I started using documentation sheets for each piece. I have to pull out those from the flat files to measure them and note the techniques and the paper. I’m also discovering not all those early works were even captured on film. Those were the days we had to have them as slides, which were not all very good, needing much colour correction when scanning. It’s been on my long-running to-do list to catch up with those undocumented works so having this website is just the right incentive. Onward!
April 8, 2015 in Being an Artist, Canada and BC, Nature, Photoworks by Marja-Leena
Quite a task! I’ve been putting off something similar. However, I find that it is so interesting looking back and rediscovering work.
These lichens are delightful. We don’t have as many, but in the cleaner air of Scotland there are forests covered.
Yes, I do enjoy looking at my older works, especially those that have been stored out of sight for so long. It’s great to have them online to see and refer to quickly, which I’ve done often with the ones on the blog, tiny though some of those images are.
Lichens are so amazing in their variety and so beautiful. I often think of the Lapland reindeers who live on them.
I’m a lichen these (heh heh).
🙂 As you know, I’m a lichen fan, with a number of images of them popping up here over the years.
They are strange and lovely not-plants.
I have a number of old slides that I’ve simply given up on. I’m glad you have the time and energy to recapture your favorite images.
Talk about old slides – we have so many family ones as well as late father-in-law’s extra-large types that we have not looked at in decades because our old slide projector died.
When I started this blog, I had a slide scanner which was not very good so even with correction those images never came out quite right. Later, the studio got one that was better. We also had occasional access to more professional photo equipment and lights. Even then, a lot of correction work had to be done. I don’t have the energy to re-photograph all those, but should do the ones that have not been documented, though I certainly don’t have the professional set up at home. It would be wonderful to have a professional photographer do my entire output – if I could afford it!
I had very similar problems with transferring slides to photographs. Many of them that had looked fine on the old slide projector turned into blurry pictures that were also in need of color correction. The whole thing was an expensive disappointment – but I do still have one of those little ‘viewers’ if I feel like looking at them again.
What method did you use to transfer your slides to photographs, Susan?
As I wrote, my first ever slide scanner was problematic with poor colours and blurry images. I’ve only now begun to use my current slide scanner thingy that came with my much loved flatbed scanner. It seems to give reasonably sharp images, of course still dependent on the quality of the shooting.
I’m glad I don’t have to use slides anymore. It took a while before galleries would accept digital images with exhibition applications. In some cases I had no slides left of some work after sending copies to many places that did not return them… and they were costly!
My Epson flatbed scanner has the peripherals for slide transfer, but after many unsuccessful attempts I gave up and went to a photography place here in Halifax. Their results were no better than mine and the cost was just too much to allow me to continue. I also have some large negatives from a professional studio I used in Portland (until the day I went and found them gone – they never got around to digital). Anyway, the place here couldn’t make satisfactory prints from those either. For the most part these days I only paint scanner-sized pictures I can share on the blog. It works for me.
Your new gallery is great, Marja-Leena, and it’s a good idea to gather your work together in one place. I look forward to seeing more of it.
You’re inspiring me to do something similar, simplifying and reorganising my websie.
Thanks, Natalie! I find it handy even for me to have all my work quickly accessible in one place, and you will too.
Susan, for some reason I can’t reply to your latest comment right beneath it, so I’m down here. Thanks for coming back. Sounds like you might have the same Epson scanner. Colour prints are expensive to do as are slides, so digital is great, isn’t it, even it it means working small in your case? In the last several years I made a lot of inkjet prints so those are already high quality digital (and also rather expensive to print).
Hmmm, the title of this post is not reflecting the subject of our conversation. The next post would have been the best place – bad planning on my part 🙂