Canon 5D Mark III Graded
Dan Chung posted some camera-original clips from his new 5D Mark III. I grabbed one and did a quick color correction.
Magic Bullet Denoiser II at default settings
Three passes of Colorista II
To my eye, in this highy subjective and non-conclus...
"Houston Blues"
"Houston Blues" ©David A. Ziser I’ve been going through hundreds of images for my new program on composition and stumbled upon this photograph yesterday. I made this image while traveling back home from Cabo, Mexico about 2 year...
Portraits of Little Girls and Boys with Their Pink and Blue Things
The Pink & Blue Project by South Korean photographer JeongMee Yoon started seven years ago after she photographed a portrait of her 5-year-old daughter sitting next to her beloved pink possessions. She then began creating portraits of other girls who loved pink things, and then other boys who loved blue. Yoon writes, This project explores...
The Work of Russian Color Photography Pioneer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
Back in the late 1800s and early 1900s, while the world was still shooting black and white photographs, Russian photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky was busy inventing techniques for creating color images. Credited with capturing the only known color photo of Leo Tolstoy, Prokudin-Gorsky’s technique involved capturing three separate monochrome photographs of the same scene, each captured...
What Else a Thing Is
Since the beginning of the year, I have posted about a dozen and a half images from a (still evolving) portfolio with the tentative title Synesthetic Landscapes. The concept for this portfolio actually dates back to Thanksgiving 2009 (which my family a...
"Stained Glass Glory"
"Stained Glass Glory" ©David A. Ziser A few years ago while visiting Baton Rouge, LA we were fortunate enough to have the time and a wonderful tour guide and friend, Larry Weaver, take us on a tour of the old State Capital of Louisian...
Symbolic Omniscience
"The basic characteristic of any artistic expression is the ordering of a visual impression into a coherent, complete, living form. The difference between a mere expression, however intense and revealing, and an artistic image of that expression, lies ...
Poetics of Space
"House, patch of meadow, oh evening lightSuddenly you acquire an almost human faceYou are very near us,embracing and embraced."- RAINER MARIA RILKE"Our house is our corner of the universe... it is our universe, a real cosmos in every sense of the ...
"Digital Sunrise"
"Digital Sunrise" © David A. Ziser Early this morning I could hear LaDawn up much earlier than I wanted to arise as she went into the adjoining room of our suite. It was a long day yesterday and I was still snoozing away.&#......
Transcendent Order
"When we say that order is transcendent, we mean to say that somehow, the order makes contact with some other reality, or some other 'something,' which lies outside of and beyond our normal experience. We need a word for this something. It is hard &nbs...
On Seeing
"The child has to learn how to separate out the images which assail the newly-opened retina... a whole series of 'senses' are necessary... A sense of spatial immensity, in its greatness and in its smallness, disarticulating and spacing out, within...
Celestial Melodies
"...above all, I perceive in me with joy, a new tone, sounded by a violin within my innermost being. Its strings are tensed or relaxed through simple differences of temperature and illumination from without. Yet from deep with our being (an instrument ...
