Spring Tulip

Spring Tulip

8x10 Soft Pastel on Art Spectrum

By Tom Willa

$65

I have been doing some juggling of priorities in the last week. This is my studio painter creation, after ignoring the easel for more than a week I have spent many hours defining this painting. I jumped into on Monday got it to a point yesterday. Today I have obsessed on it to the point where it is wise for me to sign it and put it out of sight. I hope you all enjoy the flower, have a great week.

Jade Plant

Jade Plant
16x18 Digital Vector Image
By Tom Willa

Yesterday, I bartered this beautiful black and white Jade Plant Image for some barbering.

Creative bargaining

Architectural Rendering

4613 231st Avenue SE
Issaaquah, WA 98029

Photograph

By Tom Willa

This morning while we checking out the local Library hours I saw an architectural rendering of the facility. It struck me that I could accomplish the same effect with one of my images using Photo Shop. A little bit of filter, duplicate layer and some blending options, this is what I came up with. This is one of David J. Edwards listings now on the market. I had to postpone my photo shoot of Ian to next week due to some scheduling conflicts. I should grab some food, seek some wisdom and be happy.

Beth and Brian

Beth and Brian

4x6 Photograph

By Tom Willa

Happy Couple having a good time, this is one of the shots from a couple of weeks ago. I used a 85mm lens as a prime which really had me doing a lot of backing away from people. The formatting on my camera turns that into a 127mm range. I am enjoying the 50mm this week as a prime. I am scheduled to take some photos of Ian working as a pastry chef, tomorrow so you may see some more photography this week.

Focus

Depth of Field

Photograph by Tom Willa

Today I was working with the 85mm lens at Avalon Glassworks . It was an interesting experience Hugh was working with Sean a fellow glass artist at an open house event. I got some great shots which will probably make their way into paintings or some photographs. The glass studio seems to yield interesting creations for me as a photographer. Avalon Glassworks Studio was a very pleasant experience in West Seattle if you in the Northwest you should stop by. I am going to let the photo speak for itself my wrist seems to be paining me at the moment. Have a great week

Collage some more

Glass Blowing Collage

By Tom Willa

Yesterday, I wrote an article for Biznik about Photography. One of the elements of good composition photographic technique was not placing a single subject by itself in the center of an image. This collage seems to be the exception. Alix is the star surrounded by several other photos. I used Picasa to generate it. Next time I may explore the envelope capabilities a little more.

Collar Pick up Glass and Photos

Photo Collage

8x11

by Tom Willa

Here's some digital design from a photo shoot at Viscosity. I pretty much got lost in the photos, what you see above is Hugh working the process where sections of cane are fused together to form the vessel which than is blown and formed by glass artist. There is a name for the technique but it eludes me. I have been experimenting with different lenses yesterday was a 50mm 1:1.4D which worked out because it was fast. The depth of field is the tricky in relationship to f-stop, the shutter speed to image clarity, all have to be balance to the intensity of the light. I used some of the my camera auto focus functions to help. I positioned my self where I would be shooting from, then adjusted the shutter speed to a wide open aperture before the molten glass was in the scene. I had to tell myself while shooting that any slower the 1/100 shutter speed would create focus difficulties. I was pretty satisfied with this approach, the three photos above are the pickup, smoothing and finishing with adding a lip and handle. I used Photo shop to manipulating the photos size and shape into a document adding a gradient to finish up. Updated March 31,09