I Got a Camera -- New Work Coming, and Beautifully Photographed
I’ve been occupied with a lot of extraneous stuff bordering on nightmare—both work and home; it’s been a busy and distracting month that’s kept me from one of my favorite places on earth, RedBubble. I’ve been heartbroken not to be able to show good photographs of my paintings. My work is very painterly, lots of heavy pigment and brushwork that I’ve been unable to capture on film. I’ve been so especially unhappy about the Kipling portrait because it looks so much better than the photo I have up now, I think it was that straw and the camel’s back thing, and I haven’t known what to do.
Until Friday.
This weekend and over the next week, I’ll be uploading a lot of new photographs, chiefly because I have a fine digital camera now. For photographers here, it’s a Fujifilm E550 with a 7.2 zoom. I’ve been reading up on it and experimenting to figure out how to use it. The photos are really good. I can’t believe the difference. And you’ll be able to see the actual paintings I’ve done, not the ghostly or blurred or over-pixilated images that were all I could muster before. I’ve started to empty out my site, cut back by three pages so far, and I’m not sure what to do about removing the original posts because all the wonderful heartwarming comments are there. Didn’t care so much about losing the couple of thousand views, and mostly I tried to pick out the ones with few or no comments and no favorites. Maybe I’ll just make the old stuff unavailable for sale, and the new photographs of paintings for sale.
Any advice will be appreciated. Then too, some of the earlier stuff looks good, the pen and inks are from a professonal service, and some have even sold. ?????
Please forgive me for my absence, and failure to note all the remarkable work my RedBubble friends and compatriots are so darn good at doing. I’ve missed this place tremendously, and most especially the fine photography and paintings from people I’ve come to know and admire. I’ll be updating my own website, The Hawks Perch, aftter this; looks like I’ve got the summer’s work cut out for me.
The dust is settling. See you all soon again, and I hope you’ll have the chance to stop by and let me know what you think.
Best wishes to you all,
Barbara
~ Ademac
Woohoo…............Barbara that is great news, I was starting to worry about you, so glad to see you back and I can not wait to see the new images…........big hugs my friend.
Barbara Sparhawk replied
Hello Adrian! You actually played a big part in this, thanks for the push. The difference in the few I’ve done is just astounding, they actually look like paintings now.
Hugs back atcha, friend.
salsbells69
Awesome Barbara! Missed you heaps. So glad to hear you have solved the problem you were having. It will be a breeze now! Such good news..Welcome Back~! :))
Barbara Sparhawk replied
You sweetie, thanks Sal. I’ve missed you too.
It’s been an awful month but lots of good coming out of it.
SNik
looking forward to viewing and good luck!
Barbara Sparhawk replied
Thanks so much, Nikolay. I’ve missed your photographs, I promise to go back and look at your beautiful work as soon as possible.
Christopher E...
totally cool barbara! if im not mistaken, you can replace the shot and not get rid of the comments, go to edit of a particular shot, and just reupload the new one, can double check w/ support to make sure tho
and glad to see ya back
Barbara Sparhawk replied
Glad to be back. The level of support and kindness and enthusiasm on RedBubble is like life itself, and I’ve missed seeing what you’ve been up to; will correct that shortly. Thanks so much Christopher. I’ll test that with uploading a new photo. I know the window’s there and ‘change your image’ but I have the feeling I tried it once long ago and it wipes out the rest of what had been there. But I’ll find out. Very kind, thanks.
JanG
Barbara, So happy for you and the new ones are great quality! Actually all it changes is the photo, not anything else. I do this frequently if I notice it needs a different crop or if I need to resize it or something. It will change it to the new photo in whatever groups it is in too.
Barbara Sparhawk replied
Thanks, Jan, good to hear from you. It’s been a revelation and I appreciated your comforting advice. I hadn’t thought of that, but it’s like the avatars, change one change all one click.