Featured Artist Art Jacoby

Fine art photographer Art Jacoby presents a dynamic portfolio filled with energy, movement and color. See more of his work by visiting his website.

 

 

I am an artist/photographer. I use the camera and the digital darkroom the way a painter uses paints, brushes, and a canvas and like a sculptor uses hammers, chisels, stone, metal, and clay to tell and share stories and their vision.

 

 

A camera does not experience or feel anything. It cannot capture my vision and experiences. When I press the shutter button of my camera, I am responding to something I see and feel at that moment. It is instinctual.

 

 

I usually set my camera to shutter priority and use slow shutter speeds. I move the camera up, down, sideways, backward, forward, zoom in and out. Sometimes, I use multiple exposures and a variable neutral density filter.

 

 

Occasionally, I use an infrared camera with different infrared filters to explore and show the world that exists beyond what our eyes can see. I take many photos from different angles, perspectives and settings.

 

 

Having captured my images, I then use the digital darkroom to recreate my experience and artistic vision. I begin with the RAW image and Adobe Photoshop and other programs to manipulate the colors, lighting, perspective, textures and shapes.

 

 

I do this to recreate what I saw and experienced, and to create an image that expresses my vision to share with the viewer.

 

 

There are no limits or rules. I continuously experiment. I hope that my images enable you share and experience my feelings at that never-to-be-repeated moment that prompted me to push the shutter button.

 

Art Jacoby invites you to follow him on Facebook and Instagram. 

 

 

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