Ray Hartl Hand Signed Framed Photo of Sailor on Church Steeple

Description: Hand Signed Professionally Framed Photo by Ray Hartl Sailor on Church SteepleCertificate of Authenticity included As a kid, way back before electronics and computers captured the imaginations of youth, Ray pursued various hobbies to satisfy his desire to discover things. As a college student he bought his first camera to document a study tour through the Soviet Union. On that trip he became enthralled with the process of picture taking and discovered a hobby that would become his life’s work and passion. In his final college semester he took a basic camera handling and darkroom course. By a stroke of fate, a geography professor in his chosen major had a passion for fine art photography. Ray credited him with steering his interest in that direction. He never had any formal art instruction but he did have instinctive abilities in visual editing and composition. Ray quickly grasped the power of photography as a means of expression, both as an art form and as the primary documenting media of the human experience. He felt the need to be a small part of that by sharing the beauty that he saw in the world around him. What he likes most about photography is its underpinning in reality. What Ray presents in a photograph is his recognition of a slice of life moment when reality actually took the form of his photograph. Its value as a work of art depends on the strength of any connection made with the viewer. A minor work may offer nothing more than a passing curiosity while a strong piece can arouse deep feelings in many viewers. Photography is an intuitive process of vision and discovery, while seeking a compositional order through the lens of his camera. The ways in which Ray accomplished that defines his style. He is always working to distill the essence of what he senses in the subject before my camera, and this often leads to a tightly composed, small part of the whole subject. For many years Ray worked exclusively with a 4x5 view camera and made color prints in a traditional color darkroom from the large format color negatives. He is now working with a digital camera to record the images, and use a film recorder to transfer the image files back onto color internegative film. This allows him to make traditional color prints on photo paper in a darkroom. He was a late convert to digital imaging and he really appreciate the freedom working with a digital camera gives him. However, as a matter of personal preference Ray does not care for the look of ink sprayed on paper and much prefer the depth of images that are embedded in the surface of traditional color prints.

Price: 236 USD

Location: Shirley, New York

End Time: 2024-12-23T17:20:10.000Z

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