Cary Photographic Artists

March 14, 2018

Two Projects, Two Paths

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What is a Project?

My version of “Project Photography”

Projects end. Or do they?

What happens when Projects do not end

The Labyrinth

Academy Street

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2/13/2018 Joe Lipka Photography

http://www.joelipkaphoto.com/ 1/4

Photographs for Exhibition and Enjoyment

Click on the thumbnails to view or download the free PDF Publications.

About the Photographer | Just Words | Digital Negatives | CPA Presentation

Inevitability of Numbers Winter Afternoon Bandon Beach Reflections

My weekly photo blog

400+ posts!

Jump Off Joes

Temporary Landscapes:Mono

Lake

Passages and Portals

Gift of Light

Rolling Sculpture: Art DecoAutomobiles at NCMA

The Only Open Doors, Bodie, California

Birds in Fog Ancient Gestures

The Hughes House A Winter Day and a Summer Morning (Exhibit)

Victorian Lady (A Winter Day)

Southern Gothic (A Summer Morning)

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Projects followed two different paths

The Labyrinth - The location is the same, I make changes to the subject.

Academy Street - The location is the same, I record changes made to the subject.

Making changes versus recording changes

5“I want to photograph situations where the viewer has two ways to get through a photograph, through light or through darkness.”

Labyrinth 1.0

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Labyrinth 2.0

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Labyrinth 2.5 - The FENCE

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Labyrinth 2.5

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Labyrinth 3.0

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Labyrinth 3.3

Fan Fold or Accordian Book

Work as single images or as multitychs.

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FINAL BOOK: 5.5x7.5” portrait format30 pages (front and back), with 4 panoramic spreads

Fold to the CENTER

FOLD in HALF2START WITH:1

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Accordion fold pages along CUT7

Keep accordion folding!9

BEND pages BEHIND 8

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REPEAT FOLDS in HALF and to CENTER

How to make an Accordion Sketchbook (that’s great for watercolor)

Please stop by:www.CitizenSketcher.com for more tips on travel sketching!

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22x30” Full Sheet ofWatercolor Paper

Suggested PAPER STOCK:Strathmore Aquarius II This 80lb synthetic �ber does not ripple with water. Great for �eld work!

CUT > Make THREE cuts

ALTERNATE direction of cuts.

Don’t cut all the way through!

Stop at the third fold.

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Labyrinth 4.0 through 6.0

Conceptual Projects / Thought Experiments

Labyrinth 4.0 - Static web site evolving to Virtual Reality

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Labyrinth 4.0 through 6.0

Conceptual Projects / Thought Experiments

Labyrinth 4.0 - Static web site evolving to Virtual Reality

Let’s not be virtual.

Let’s be realand

LARGE

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Labyrinth 4.0 through 6.0

Conceptual Projects/Thought Experiments

Labyrinth 4.0 - Static web site evolving to Virtual Reality

Labyrinth 5.0 - Life size, vehicle wrap outdoors on aluminum

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Labyrinth 4.0 through 6.0

Conceptual Projects/Thought Experiments

Labyrinth 4.0 - Static web site evolving to Virtual Reality

Labyrinth 5.0 - Life size, vehicle wrap outdoors on aluminum

Labyrinth 6.0 - Put the viewer between two walls:One wall - Mural sized photographic printsFacing - Reflective surface, (Mylar or Mirrors)

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Labyrinth 7.0Why a straight line?

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These are all two dimensional

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30A Walk Down Academy Street

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32Transitions: Transforming an Icon

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After the Memories

We lose the people,then we lose the buildings,then we lose the Memories

After the Memories are gone

all we have are the photographs

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Updated Tech Tips!

LightRoom Settings for basic

image processing and sharpening

Import sharpening

Export sharpening

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2/13/2018 Joe Lipka Photography

http://www.joelipkaphoto.com/ 1/4

Photographs for Exhibition and Enjoyment

Click on the thumbnails to view or download the free PDF Publications.

About the Photographer | Just Words | Digital Negatives | CPA Presentation

Inevitability of Numbers Winter Afternoon Bandon Beach Reflections

My weekly photo blog

400+ posts!

Jump Off Joes

Temporary Landscapes:Mono

Lake

Passages and Portals

Gift of Light

Rolling Sculpture: Art DecoAutomobiles at NCMA

The Only Open Doors, Bodie, California

Birds in Fog Ancient Gestures

The Hughes House A Winter Day and a Summer Morning (Exhibit)

Victorian Lady (A Winter Day)

Southern Gothic (A Summer Morning)

Follow joelipka

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MARCH 04, 2018

506 Hanging on to the Past

Plimsol Lines, Ferry Boat

I’m still suffering through the Curse of the Archives (See posts 492 and 500) and struggling with the following thought; “If my old photographsare so bad, why am I hanging on to them?” Those really ugly bad photographs are taking up storage space I could use for something else.Why haven’t these old photographs already met their demise in some potlatch? What makes these bad images so powerful they have yet tobe dispatched to the great trash heap in the sky? Is their sole photographic use is as a bad example? Or am I hanging on to them becausethey are visual memories of an old man? I am only beginning to look for an answer to this question. Maybe this is just another way ofpostponing the eventual task of disposing of truly horrible photographs.

Brooks Jensen (of LensWork fame) posits that once he goes into the great ink maintenance tank in the sky, his children will sell all hisphotographs at an estate sale for fifty cents…a box. I have complete faith and confidence the estate sale of my photographs will be quiteprofitable because people will want to buy either the storage boxes or the frames holding my old photographs.

Did you notice that I did not mention anything about unused photographic equipment? It’s like none of us have any spare photo gear lyingabout the house, right? I’ll deal with that idea later.

Postcards from the CreativeJourney

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