The average punter, when they see a striking image, exclaims: “Oh it’s been Photo-shopped!” And they do so in such a disparaging way that infers that anyone can take a file from their digital compact, load it into their preferred editing program, and come out with a masterpiece.
Most images appearing on S.J.M. Bray’s website are rendered specially for the web. Their full sized equivillents are very different in terms of graininess, texture and sharpness.
Networking with others in your chosen profession is always thought provoking and usually helpful Recently S.J.M. Bray met with Birmingham based photographer Pete Ashton whose images are refreshing and seem ultra low thech. But are they?
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Stephen Jeremy Maxwell Bray lives with his wife Irem, and daughter Amazon at Amos, Turunc near Marmaris, Turkey... . he is currently writing a series of three books about photography for publication on Amazon Kindle. The first of these 'Photography and Psychoanalysis' was published on May 10th, 2013.
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