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Outdoor Exposure iPhone App

April 1, 2009 by Sean Bagshaw 5 Comments

While a fine art photographic print is still my favorite way to enjoy great photography, technology is rapidly changing the ways it is possible to view, access and share art. The images that move and excite us no longer have to be confined to a wall or the pages of a book. I love to share my photographs and want people to be able to access them in a way that best suits their needs and purpose. A large fine art print will always be available to those who have the resources and space, but size, cost and location are no longer limiting factors to accessing photography and other visual art.

The iPhone is one of the most innovative pieces of technology to recently come on the scene. It can be very valuable as a tool for communication and storing and accessing information, but it also has great potential in entertainment, education and access to media and imagry, includinig art.

I recently partnered with the folks at Open Door Network in creating an iPhone application of my photography. The application is like a collection of slide shows that allow iPhone users to have a portable art gallery of my photographs right in their pockets. Photographs in the Outdoor Exposure for iEnvision app are organized into three collections including Landscape, Nature and Travel. Landscape includes photos of canyons, deserts, forest, lakes, mountains, oceans, streams and waterfalls. Nature displays abstracts, fall color, flowers, trees and winter. Travel takes you to Hawaii, Mexico and Nepal.

In addition to viewing the gallery shows, the images can also be saved for use as iPhone wallpaper and each image links to the Outdoor Exposure Photography website for more information.

Open Door Network’s flagship iEnvision web image browser, as well as their line of Envi iPhone image applications access and organize images from the Web into fun to view and share slide shows for the iPhone. Other iEnvision “Envi” apps include Art, Earth, Space, Mountain and Yosemite.

Photo Journal: Photographing Double Falls

November 14, 2008 by Sean Bagshaw 3 Comments

This amazing location required a 4:00 AM wake-up and a cross country hike through grizzly country in the dark up on Logan Pass in Glacier National Park. It was well worth the effort. Streams cascading off all sides of a bowl shaped valley converge at this narrow slot in the rocks. During the summer, melt water flows off the canyon walls in several places creating four of five separate falls, but in the fall just the two main falls remain.

I first became aware of this waterfall from Galen Rowell’s classic photograph.Â A couple of years ago it ran on the cover of Outdoor Photographer Magazine and included the following caption: “Light conditions like this are notoriously difficult to photograph.Â The contrast between the sky and the shadowed ground is too much for film or an image sensor to handle.Â At the time Rowell made this image, he used a split neutral-density filter to control the contrast.Â If he was alive and photographing the same scene today, Rowell would have used a digital camera.Â He’d have known that he could employ some sophisticated RAW-software techniques to double-process the image file.”

I took that advice and photographed the classic scene in two separate exposures, one for the sky and one for the dark foreground and then manually blended the two images in Photoshop to allow the entire range of light that I experienced to all be contained within a single image.

The magazine caption also noted the irony that in a location famous for being on the continental divide, a place where water usually flows in opposite directions, toward the east or the west, would also be a place where so many streams flow together.

Two exposure manual blend. Canon EOS 5D, Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 lens, 3 stop Sing-Ray split neutral density filter, circular polarizer, 3.2 sec @ f/10 (sky), 15 sec @ f/10 (fore ground), ISO 100

Sean Bagshaw Greeting Cards

November 12, 2008 by Sean Bagshaw Leave a Comment

For the last couple of years I have been selling greeting cards that feature my photos through the Ashland Artisan Gallery. I’m now happy to announce that my greeting cards can also be ordered in sets of six through my website. Six different cards are currently available including favorite images such as Red Willow Sea and Crimson Gorge. The greeting cards are printed on heavy, glossy card stock, measure 5×7 inches, come with envelopes and are blank inside for your personal message. They also fit standard 5×7 frames, so after they have been used as a card they can also be displayed as wall art.

Each set of six cards is priced at $25 with free shipping and are perfect for holidays and other special occasions. You can view the card choices and order from my website HERE.

Lunar Eclipse Photo On Exhibit in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

October 10, 2008 by Sean Bagshaw Leave a Comment

I am very excited to announce that my photo titled Lunar Eclipse Over Mt. Shasta has been selected as the category winner in the Creative Digital Category in the 2008 Windland Smith Rice International Photography Awards which is an international competition sponsored by Nature’s Best Photography Magazine.Â The 2008 contest received over 20,000 entries.

The award-winning photographs will be published in the 2008 Fall Awards Special Collector’s Edition of Nature’s Best Magazine, due out mid-November. In addition, my photograph will be featured in the annual exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC,Â one of the most prestigious and highly-visited museums in the world,Â running from mid-NovemberÂ through April 2009.

Nature’s Best will be posting the winning images on www.NaturesBestPhotography.com by the end of November.Â Â Â In addition, the NATURE’S BEST PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS will be displayed in galleries on AOL Pixcetera and MSNBC.

This is a very exciting recognition of my photography and I’m honored to be selected along with the other winners.Â I’ll post more information about the exhibit and magazine as it becomes available.