When science meets art there has to be some give and take, and a secret or two to boot! Taking photographs in the digital age.

I was recently asked by a friend, Michael Thornton, if I enhanced my photos in any way. That's a fair question, and one that I gladly will answer!

I have been taking serious film photographs for over thirty years. During that time, I learned by trial and error with lots of expensive film, the secrets of light and how to capture it, and the wonderment of  transforming a 3D image onto a flat plane.

One of the most amazing things about transparency film is that a "real" image is forever captured and locked into the emulsion layers, and the art in its truest form is preserved in all of its glory for years.

Because of the nature of this chemical process, all enhancements had to be made prior to opening the shutter. I have spent hours on certain shots setting up and waiting for the light to be "just right!"

Fast forward to the age of the digital camera. There is a genuine artistic conundrum associated with the devices, because there is no REAL image created. For years, I rejected the notion of taking photographs with a digital camera because it was not art ...it was science.

And because there is no real image, only a multimillion numbered collection of ones and zeroes, every digital photograph is by definition enhanced. Either the camera interprets it, or your computer interprets it, or your printer interprets it. No two devices will produce exactly the same image.

The upshot of all of this is that I have endeavored to duplicate the result of a high quality transparency photograph with my digital translations. I still set up the shot, and see through the lens, the image that I want to preserve, and I seek to make that happen across the broadest range of electronic devices.

Good photography still demands a proper setup, good filters, correct exposures and above all, high quality glass and perfect light. I combine all of these with a finishing algorithm that I have developed over time that allows me to present the final image in the same manner as a transparency photograph.

That part of the process is a secret. After all, that's my art!

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