Telluride - Alta Mining Camp

Alta Camp - Telluride, Colorado, iPhone4s

This image is one of the many old mining camps located in the Telluride area. Slowly they are restoring these camps to their original condition. This building is where the miners slept after putting in 16 hour days. They worked in shifts as there were only space for 8 miners to sleep at one time. I was told that the gold mined each day was worth one million dollars.

From a photograph point of view these are wonderful places to make images - but only if you can make it at 10,000 feet - and it is tough....

iPhone Destination Workshop

Santa Monica Pier

Only 28 days left until The Last Pixel Show's iPhone/iPad Creativity Workshop at The Palouse in Washington State. Teri Lou Dantzler and Harry Sandler are holding a 4 day iPhone/iPad workshop in Colfax, Washington that covers all aspects of iPhone photography and so much more. The last day is spent printing images made during the workshop and each participant leaves with minimum one print.

There are currently 10 people attending with rather diverse backgrounds from all parts of the country. It is also harvest time in The Palouse - add all this together and you have a unique four day learning experience.

Musician, iPhone4

The Last Pixel will cover resolution, camera apps, cross processing on laptop or desktop, transfer of images, creativity, printing various applications and much more.

There are currently two spots open for this workshop.....

Wiscasset, Maine

Wiscasset, Maine, iPhone4

'To live a creative life - we must lose our fear of being wrong'.....Joseph Pearce

Old Silver Beach

Old Silver Beach, Cape Cod

For those in the Cape Cod area I am teaching a two day iPhone Workshop Creativity Workshop at The Cotuit Center for the Arts - August 11-12. Click on the link for more information....

For those on the west coast The Last Pixel Show is holding a four day iPhone Workshop in The Palouse, Washington State. Click on the link above for more information.

Printing iPhone images are covered in both of these workshops. I am also teaching one on one at my home studio in Westchester, New York. Email harry@harrysandler.com for more information.

Eddie Van Halen

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At times I will draw inspiration from my favorite artists when working on an iPhone/iPad image.

Today's image was made using my DSLR and imported into my iPad for processing. I was looking for the background to mimic James Ensor's 'Christ's Entry into Brussels'. I always liked his presentation of the crowd in that painting....gave a sense of depth to the image.

Iceland Waterfall

Iceland, iPhone4s

'A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path'...Unknown

Morning Ride

Mornign Ride

The original image was an ektachrome image scanned into the digital world and processed on the iPad.

To learn this process and so much more about your iPhone and Ipad take a Last Pixel Show workshop. Below find links to two August workshops. Additionally I teach one on one in my home studio.

August 11, 12: Cape Cod: Contuit Center for the Arts

Aug 17-20: The Palouse, Washington State

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Sometimes it just happens and we are along the ride - staying out of the way - and as much as one part of the brain is telling you no - the other is telling you yes...this has been one of those images.....I have no idea where it comes from or what it means.....It simply just happened.....

Ferris Wheel

Ferris Wheel - Atlantic City

How many times have you worked on an image for a few days and the minute you post on a social network page or blog or other media a thought enters your mind with a new processing idea - countless times for me. That and going back in the archives and wondering how you missed an image in the first place...something I suggest everyone do from time to time...

The Ferris Wheel image today fits both of these criteria. It has been in the archives for quite some time - very much overexposed but with bit and pieces of color. After working on the image for several days it dawns on me to make a composite using one of my cloud images. PS: it is always helpful to save clouds and texture images in a folder for just this purpose.

Original Ferris Wheel

So after an hour or so I think I have it right, hit return and send it off into the cyber world. Needless to say that second I did that I realize it was the color that drew me into the image in the first place, and, of course, now have to go back and mask in the color...

Original Image

Portrait Processing

Harry Chapin at Home

I talk a good deal about moving images from my iPhone over to the big boy computer for processing. Well it works both ways. One of my favorite things to do is scan old film images and move them on to the iPad for processing. It opens so many options and possibilities for being creative with your images.

In my archives I have a number of film images, both black and white and color,  from my days in the music business.  Over the last year I have been scanning these images into the digital world and experimenting with processing on my iPad.

Today's image is Harry Chapin, am image made for a music magazine, circa mid seventies.