Artist Profile

San Juan Housing
18" x 24"

Untitled Nude
24" x 18"

Nude Photographer
20" x 20"

Ticking the Ivories
16" x 24"

We look for the unusual and for different views of the usual. We believe that photography as a fine art is no different than other two dimensional works of art. Let’s take a painter, for example:
• Painters start with a blank canvas and a vision (that vision may, in fact, be a photograph), of which they draw a rough sketch (a first draft).
• The photographic artists’ blank canvas is an empty digital file (or unexposed film) in which they create a first draft by taking a photograph of the vision.
• Painters then use oils, pastels etc. to create the vision, modifying it as the paint.
• Photographic artists use digital imaging software to create and modify the vision, but they control the rendering of the vision.

We work primarily with Photoshop Elements (the “lite” version of PS). We start with a straight from the camera file and crop the picture for format and composition. After making basic adjustments for things such as brightness, contrast and color, we start creating – making various changes and trying various effect filters. When we finish, the artwork could be anything from photo-realistic to looking like a painting (oil, pastel, watercolor, etc.) or to a drawing (charcoal, graphic pen, line drawing. etc.) or something more far out (an abstract, etc.). We feel very greatly complemented when someone asks “What kind of paint did you use?” or says, as a few have that it looks like Dali!

Tour Location: ArtSpace Hartford

Website: LJBFoto.com

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