| Into The Hills. One of the Images from the Kawartha Seasons Photography Exhibition Randall Romano This week’s blog is a celebration of my first Photographic Exhibition called Kawartha Seasons. Although I have been involved in making images for the past 30 years I have sadly not been involved in the printmaking process. During the film days it was the need for a darkroom and all the chemicals that stopped my progress in this area, not to mention the space. Recently however, I have discovered and fallen in love with making my own prints. There is something extremely satisfying about making your own prints from images you are extremely proud of. I now believe it is an essential completion of the process beginning from the capturing of the image in camera, to post production and finally to printing the image on fine art paper. Printing images is now more important than ever before. In digital photography images are vulnerable to hard drive failure and in getting lost because of the shear number of images we produce. Making a print is a tangible way to finalize the process, a way of celebrating your success as an image-maker. It is a celebration of not only capturing the image, but of the final edit and post production work. It is the final process in the road of image making and is tangible, being three-dimensional. There is also a feeling of craftsmanship to making a print that is exciting, as you determine the paper and the feel to the final product. A print is also a great way to share our images, as displaying, matting and framing our work is a great way to allow others to enjoy our work. During the month of April The Spark Photography Festival is on in Peterborough, Ontario, highlighting the work of 47 plus photographers. If you are in the Kawarthas during the month of April, I urge you to visit some of the exhibits, as the caliber of photography is extremely high. http://sparkphotofestival.com/ My own exhibition takes place at the Kawartha Heritage Conservancy, a highly recognized organization that helps protect and enhance the natural and cultural features of the Kawartha Lakes Region. As we get older in life, achieving things on our Bucket List becomes more important and having this exhibition achieves this goal. The building that the event is hosted in is a beautiful older structure with very tall ceilings and beautiful large windows. More details about the Kawartha Season’s Exhibition can be found at:http://sparkphotofestival.com/exhibits/individuals/randall-romano I also want to give a big shout out to Kawartha Heritage Conservancy for being kind enough to allow me the opportunity to exhibit in their office space. In particular a big thanks to the Executive Director: Mike Hendren, who was instrumental in allowing use of the space. The organizations website can be found at:http://kawarthaheritage.org/ I can’t emphasize enough the good work this organization does in securing and protecting natural areas. Please consider helping them in any way possible. Before ending this self-indulging blog post I would like to give you the names of two of my favorite inkjet papers for printing. Both are made by Canson Infinity. Baryta Photographique and their Plantine Rag Photographique are fantastic fine art paper. They are 310 GSM papers with very, pure white colouring. As I am learning more about papers I urge you not to make the same mistake I made initially, which was purchasing Glossy Photo Paper. Instead I recommend purchasing sampler packs of a variety of paper types. This gives you many different textures of paper to print on and helps you better decide on the look and feel that’s right for your own work. I will give you more printing tips in future blog posts. Next week’s Thursday’s Muse however, provides more locations to photograph, as we explore the second part in our series on the Grimsby area.  Doe Island: Randall Romano  Fresh Cut: Randall Romano |
Thursday, 5 March 2015
Kawartha Seasons Exhibition. Bucket List # 13 #59766
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