Fine Art Photography Works

Interest has been expressed to me about publishing what I guess would be called contemporary or abstract fine art black and white photography images.  So instead of publishing some new beautiful fine art landscape photography and infrared images I have waiting in the wings, I thought I would do so.

This first image has actually been one of my favorites for some time now:

The Pile - a lone piling on the beach on the Outer Banks of North Carolina

It has been sitting in an unpublished gallery for about two years.  I’m not quite sure why I like this image so much.  Perhaps it’s the composition or Read the rest of this entry »

Four new fine art landscape photography and paintography images have been published in the gallery.

The images span the breadth of North Carolina’s most beautiful areas and include the Craggy Gardens area of the Blue Ridge Parkway in the North Carolina mountains and the Outer Banks on coastal North Carolina.

The images consist of traditional fine art photography and fine art paintography (hand-created digitally-painted photographs), in color and black and white renditions.  The color rendition is available as a limited edition print.

The first image is my personal favorite:

Pretty Passage - Spring in Craggy Gardens on the Blue Ridge Parkway in the North Carolina mountains

This digitally hand-painted image is of Craggy Gardens on the Blue Ridge Parkway in the North Carolina mountains.  In the spring and summer seasons, hiking trails in this area are Read the rest of this entry »

Four new fine art landscape photographs have been published in the gallery.  The four fine art images include both abstract and paintography styles.  Paintography is a photograph that is digitally hand-painted to give it a unique, painterly style.  The two paintography images are offered as limited edition prints with a limit of 25 prints per print size.

My favorite is Deadwood Dunes:

Deadwood Dunes

I have taken many pictures of this driftwood bush and the sand dune over a two year period (here’s one).  Night shots, day shots, sunrise and sunset.  It has been interesting to watch this scene change.  This image was captured Read the rest of this entry »

New fine art landscape photos have been published to the Fine Art Photography Works gallery.  The stunning new images include fine art black and white photography, fine art color photography, and new manually-created paintography images.

Below is a preview of the images and a little info about each.

Pathway into Oblivion

A dirt road lined with surrealistic trees winds around a bend and disappears into the foggy nothingness.

This is my favorite.  The image was captured in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina near the area of the Read the rest of this entry »

What is Fine art paintography?

Because paintography is so new, and so few people are creating it, it’s not a word in the dictionary yet.  Paintography is a very unique style of art that combines digital painting and photography.  A photograph (digital image) is opened in a computer graphic editing program such as Photoshop, and various plugins or filters are used to modify the image with special effects.  A plugin or filter is a small computer application that can be added to Photoshop to perform special functions.

Fine art paintography example

Why do I create paintography with my fine art photographs?

First and foremost, because it allows me to create exceptionally beautiful artwork in a unique and special style.  Among the vast numbers of fine art photographers out there, very few do paintography.  Then, among the few who do it, a large percentage of those use automatic filters and plugins to accomplish the task.  I do not.  More about that later.  The important point is that fine art paintography allows me to set my art apart from Read the rest of this entry »

I’m pleased to announce the addition of matted and framed fine art photography prints to the gallery.  In addition to purchasing prints (only) you can now get the prints professionally matted and framed.

The prints can be single- or double-matted with white matte.  The black wood frame is decorative and compliments the print, yet is neutral enough to fit any environment.

Only the highest quality materials are utilized.  The matte is acid-free rag.  The glass used in the frame is premium photo glass.  The process utilized is museum quality archival mounting utilizing things such as acid-free tapes, glues, etc.  This ensures the longevity of the high quality archival fine art papers that are used for every print.

Announcing a new body of work by fine art photographer Dan Carmichael.

The work, “Fall Unto Thy Grave” has been almost 5 years in the making. Conceived in 2005 and in creative process since 2006, the body of work blends the lively, colorful beauty of Autumn’s vivid colors with the sorrowful, depressing gloom of historic graveyards.

The work does not consist of traditional photographic images. Rather, it consists of artistic and abstract renderings manually created from digital image originals captured by fine art photographer Dan Carmichael.

“Fall Unto Thy Grave” – the series of photographs and the accompanying article – can be viewed here. [Click Link]

(or cut and paste link:

http://www.fineartphotographyworks.com/body_of_work_grave.html)

Here are a few sample images:

"In Memory of Cooper" (click image to view entire body of work)

"We Love You Mother" (click image to view entire body of work)

"Fallen Friend, Fallen Leaves" (click image to view entire body of work)

Two new images have been published. I am especially excited about these images because I like them very much. But I am also aware that others may not. It is for that reason – that difference in opinion – that I think the images are important and why I would like to write a few thoughts about them. It’s because the images are symbolic of never-ending debates in the world of art.

Image One:

This first image is abstract:

"Naked Trees" (click image to view in gallery)

I like this image because it is clean and simple. The branches flow with gentle lines and curves. The shading and textures are pleasant to the eye. To me, it’s a nice image.

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I recently added new fine art photography images to the fine art online gallery (http://www.fineartphotographyworks.com)

Following is information about the images and their creation.

STORMY BODIE

Stormy Bodie

This is my favorite of the bunch. Not because it’s the best, but because of personal reasons. Often a photographer’s personal experiences encountered while capturing an image will influence their feelings about it, as is the case with this image.

I enjoy the challenge of shooting pictures under adverse conditions. All too often I run across photographers who run and hide their heads from the rain, thinking that their best work should be done in fair weather. I have found that the most dramatic images are often created in and under bad conditions.

Such is the case with this image. This is the Bodie Lighthouse on Bodie Island on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This image was shot while tropical storm Danny was rolling over the Outer Banks in August, 2009. High winds, walls of driving rain, incredible non-stop lightning… the conditions could not have been better!

When I left Buxton (Outer Banks – Hatteras Island) that morning, I did not know where to go. I had no plan other than to be shooting somewhere at first light, about an hour before sunrise. I didn’t really expect to see a sunrise during a tropical storm, but I wanted to do something! That quiet, still little voice in my ear said “Bodie!” So I went.

It’s normally about a 45 minute drive from Buxton to Bodie. It took longer. As I made the drive in the dark, I became disheartened because I drove thru patches of horrendous downpours and wind. The highway was flooded in areas, as 12 often is. I often use an umbrella to shoot in rain, but I knew that would not be possible this time because the wind was so heavy it would have blown the top of the umbrella apart. I truly believed that when I got to Bodie I would be forced to stay in the car and watch.

As I began to near Bodie, I literally shouted out loud! Woo Hoo! Read the rest of this entry »

Unfortunately, the old blog has been lost due to a database error. Also unfortunate, it was not backed up. As opposed to trying to recreate the articles, I have decided to start afresh with this new blog.
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Fine Art Photography of Dan Carmichael (http://www.fineartphotographyworks.com) is a collection of color and black & white, landscape and scenic, traditional and abstract fine art photography and collectible art of North Carolina fine art photographer and artist, Dan Carmichael.

In this blog you will find notes and comments that will allow you to learn more about the art, the stories behind the images, and about the photographer / artist.