Oh shit, I realized that it’s been a while since I last posted an image with a corresponding light setup, so I’m correcting that oversight with today’s post, showing another single light setup. Continue reading
Integrity: How Many of Us Really Exercise It With Our Art?
Honestly, I am not what you would call an aficionado of Monet. I mean, I like the work and all but, if I were to win millions of dollars, a Monet is not a piece I’d rush out to add to my art collection. Yet, still, I am becoming more and more drawn to the man and the painter as I learn more about him. Especially his sense of integrity as an artist. Continue reading
Eulogy For an Old Friend
So it finally happened. My camera – my trusted sidekick – has been slowly dying for the past couple of years. Like an old man near the end of his life, struggling with each step but surely getting slower and slower with waning function, my camera has been starting to fail on a regular basis. This is its eulogy: it deserves no less. Continue reading
Catch Light – the Soul of a Photograph
Okay, all you photographers who are just starting out or want to get into portrait photography, for the love of God, read this post. It’s a rant about portraiture basics: ensuring you’ve got a catch light in the eyes. Continue reading
Light Tent – How To Make Your Own
So, over the past several years, I’ve been asked about my own light tent. For those of you who know me, you know that I will spend good money on stuff that “matters” – like lenses, memory cards, tripods, etc. Stuff where owning the best you can afford matters. But there is another category that falls under the phrase “light don’t care.” Continue reading
Art vs Artistic – When Did The Two Become Separate?
We all know that art is subjective. Hell, we all know the line “I may not know art but I know what I like.”
On the third episode of Polarizing Images, we talk about the importance of prints and we lament how people just don’t put as much value into physical photographs as they once did. The printed photography seems to have lost its value. Continue reading
Oops, Where Did I Go?
Don’t fret – Domaschuk.com is currently being rebuilt from the ground up and may be unavailable for a couple of days (most of it should be back online by Jan 25, 2012). The old site was mainly Flash and that wasn’t supported on iOS devices (iPhones, iPods, iPads) so I needed to rebuild it.
Use the contact form to get a hold of me in the meantime.
Thanks for visiting!
Mentor – Getting Guidance in a World of Competition
Continuing my recent trend of taking inspiration from other people for my blog post, I was reading Kriss Abigail’s latest blog post. The one part that really stuck out for me, and is something I’ve complained about for quite a while now, is the reluctance of working photographers to mentor. She wrote: Continue reading
The Remarkable Importance of Having Ritual
A Remarkable Challenge for 2012
What does opening a bottle of wine, a photography vlog, my favorite food blog, and the word remarkable have in common?
Quite a bit, actually. Continue reading
Suffering from Stagnation as an Artist?
Just a quick note to let you know that Tony and I released episode 8 of Polarizing Images last week. I love the topic: stagnation. I’ve been shooting for quite a while and have thousands of slides and a magnitude more of digital files. After a while, every artist starts to have doubts about what they are doing. Am I shooting the same stuff time and time again? Have I stopped pushing myself to move into new and innovative areas? Am I stuck in a rut and am struggling to break out of it? Continue reading
