fragments-'poppies' nominated for SoJie 12
MY WORK HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR SoJie 12!
 fragments – ‘poppies’ by Mike Finley |
 Join me at the Juried Invitational Exhibition… |
I am very excited to exhibit in SoJie 12. SoJie 12 takes its name from the first letters of Solo’s Juried Invitational Exhibition. This month is only the 12th one, ever, and 120 other members of the Solo Exhibition group, besides myself, ar…
the rule of thirds
The photographer’s rule of thirds is one that always irritates me whenever its quoted. Now a kind soul has saved me the trouble of explaining why!
see the lazy rule of thirds – an explanation of the much older rule, substantially predating photography, which seems to have been considered too complex for mere photographers to understand! Complete with some excellent photography as exam…
Creative Commons - for artists and photographers
Firstly, I’ve posted an article on my new blog on why artists and photographers might want to use a creative commons licence
hint its partly about getting your art found
and secondly, we have a brand new group here Creative Commons where you can either
- discuss pros/cons of creative commons
or - display your works that are creative commons licenced
One hundred years of infrared photography ... and the Magic Dragon
This year sees the one hundredth anniversary of the first publication of an infrared photograph, and this is being recognised by a number of exhibitions, though it all seems to be very low key with little publicity (at least in the UK).
One useful site is the Infrared 100 blog , the blogger of which recently contacted me to ask if I would loan a copy of one of my prints, Puff, the Magic Dragon fr…
Rogue Gene Collective collaborations on front page of Professional Associate News
The Rogue Gene Collective has been featured on the front page Professional Associate News (published by the UK ‘Society for All Artists’. (‘All artists’ is mostly ‘painters’, but hey, I’ll take publicity anywhere, and most of the Rogue Gene Collective do paint – I’m the odd one out)
The feature is about the collaborations between the artists o…
image metadata for artists
for those of you that have your own websites as well as redbubble, or use another site, I’ve posted a short article about using image meta data with your images.
(redbubble chooses to remove all your metadata, but will add your copyright in the metadata if you’ve set the appropriate field in your profile – unless things have changed again!)
photo manipulation before digital
If you think manipulation of photographs is somehow new and all to do with nasty computer things, think again!
See http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/digitaltampering/ … starting with
- circa 1860: This nearly iconic portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is a composite of Lincoln’s head and the Southern politician John Calhoun’s body. *
manipulation of photographs is…
'Rogue Gene Collective' featured in 'Society for all Artists' newsletter
The Rogue Gene Collective has been featured in a recent newsletter for professional associates of the UK Society for all artists. (‘All artists’ is mostly ‘painters’, but hey, I’ll take publicity anywhere, and most of the Rogue Gene Collective do paint – I’m the odd one out)
The article is about the benefits for artists of belonging to such a group, and m…
'torn' submitted for jpg magazine's "transformations" theme competition
I’ve just joined jpg magazine and have entered torn into the transformations theme – If you’re a member I’d appreciate it if you would look at it and hopefully vote for it!
thanks :)
Promotion using 'Selected Artworks'
I’ve been running an image based blog on Selected Artworks for just over a year now (it doesn’t seem that long!)
It was only intermittently updated in the early days, but I’m now trying to add at least 4 items per week, and this is resulting in a slow growth of viewing figures, and click through to the artists involved, and I know that at least one painting has been sold as a re…