Soft Hombre Umbre Print

Here's a short video to show a closer look at the detail of some of my photographs. Which in many cases is unbelievable, simply because our eyes aren't used to the refracting and rearranging that happens in these photographs, by the way are taken... https://youtu.be/tTRuwPYNq3k In camera slow exposure, creates a soft effect. Not sure exactly how, but I think, after having done this for a few years, the tree in the foreground is in sharp focus and the background out because of depth of field and movement and panning. Of this I am pretty sure. my depth of field is usually at f 22 give or take a couple of stops. I have written quite a bit about this type of photo. Here's something I wrote...thank you. It’s hard to believe for me even that I did nothing to the above photo, but take it at a slow shutter speed, going against the ironclad, immutable rule of every serious photographer ): no blur! (I was moving. Sometimes I pan, sometimes I don’t.) Who knew? I have won awards in poetry, music, and photography. In order to write poetry, you let the mind drift. These photographs drift. www.saatchiart.com/tpaige Sometimes I’m not quite sure how I got the image. In, “I have dreamed a world”, it looks like I started out horizontal and ended up sometime during the long exposure, vertical. Or vice versa. I’m still learning. I now know that for every photograph taken the ‘old’ way, that is basically where your body is the tripod and you beg everyone and everything to hold still, there is the same photograph that can be taken using this method of free floating, tripod free photography. I was a photojournalist for 20+ years in WV. In 2007 I realized that shutter speed neither creates nor destroys beauty. Quality is quality. Good composition is good composition. Beauty is Beauty. Difficult to destroy that stuff by taking a picture of it. Though we have done our best. Bulldozers and bad lighting---different story. I have concentrated on nature just because it presents itself so frequently in my daily life here in the hills of W.Va. But I have had success with bridges, for example. By nature, and in the interest of order, people want things to hold still. They want their meals separated into groups on a plate. If you translate this idea to photography, you get T. Paige P.O. Box 96 Charlton Heights WV 25040 304 549 0332 your photograph served to you in the proper order. With someone like Salvador Dali, for example, you would have you head served to you sliding off a silver platter, along with the clock on the wall. It’s in our nature to transgress. To be bored with your art--it happens. But why throw the baby out with the urinal? I don’t know why photography has been a little slow on the uptake, but I think it’s because it’s a newer art form. And the fact that traditional photography has given us so many wonderful images. Ansel Adams, Frank Capa, Diane Arbus, Henri-Cartier Bresson, Ellen Mark and now Vivian Maier, to name a few. But something I saw in the New Yorker recently, the photos of Saul Leiter, triggered in me a mini-Aha! moment. And a letter to The New Yorker. I have hit upon something---a semi-revolutionary approach to photography. I just don’t know what to call it: Rushes, Indelible Photographs, Slides, The T. Paige Effect. A bridge between painting and photography? So what do you call the melding of painting, poetry, and photography? Call them what you will, they are extraordinary: drifting, sliding, merging boundaries, edging towards Monet’s dream of inhabiting a moment. And bringing back slides. I still love traditional photography, or maybe I should just say, Photography. It’s just gotten a lot bigger.

Print:Giclee on Photo Paper

Size:12 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:17.25 W x 13.25 H x 1.2 D in

Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.