Category: Photography

This category contains helpful information for professional photographers and amateur photographers alike. You’ll find guides for selling photography online and the benefits of various mediums for printing fine art photographs. Blogs with tips for amateur and aspiring photographers to improve their photography and photo prints. Read about the smartphone vs digital camera debate. You can also learn about ArtisanHd’s Brand Ambassadors- professional photographers specializing in a variety of subjects and techniques.

Tim Lanterman in 3 man show with a little help from Artisan HD
Tim Lanterman in 3 man show with a little help from Artisan HD

Art, Photography

Tim Lanterman in 3 man show with a little help from Artisan HD

Tim Lanterman will be opening a show this week of his most recent work at the Modified Arts gallery in Phoenix. We did the scanning and imaging to help bring Tim's pieces to life. We were very honored to be a part of his artistic process. They are some beautiful images. We wish all of them the [...]

Kurney Ramsey wins Director’s Award
Kurney Ramsey wins Director’s Award

Art, Photography

Kurney Ramsey wins Director’s Award

We were pleased to learn that an image we recently printed for Kurney Ramsey, Jr. won an award. His New Cars piece was given the Director's Award and will be in the Halpert Biennial show at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at the Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. until October 6th. You [...]

Get published in National Geographic
Get published in National Geographic

Fine Art Printing, Photography

Get published in National Geographic

This is a golden opportunity to have one of your images published in National Geographic magazine. They are holding a photo contest and the winners in 4 categories (people, landscape, animals, and photo essay) will win a digital SLR camera kit, and best of all, will be published in their magazine. The contest begins tomorrow, [...]

Charles Brooks receives masters from Professional Photographers of America
Charles Brooks receives masters from Professional Photographers of America

Art, Photography

Charles Brooks receives masters from Professional Photographers of America

We recently worked with Charles Brooks on 4 prints he submitted to the International Print Competition held by the Professional Photographers of America (PPA). If even one of them received high honors he would reach his ultimate goal of earning a Masters of Photography. So, we have been waiting with bated breath for the judges [...]

Wireless memories?
Wireless memories?

Fine Art Printing, Photography

Wireless memories?

Scott from Visualville posed a question that I have been wondering for years. Where have all the pictures gone? With more and more people converting their entire lives to digital, the absence of real printed pictures is creating a large gap in our tangible history. There was a time when photos, (prints), were precious. A [...]

Streets of New York
Streets of New York

Art, Photography

Streets of New York

If you are located in the Southwest then right now, like me, you are searching for activities to beat the heat and potential boredom of the summers here. Spending a day gazing at photography in the comfortable climate controlled environment in the Phoenix Art Museum fits the bill nicely. In their own words, "Cool art. [...]

Next stop 50 miles
Next stop 50 miles

Art, Photo Murals, Photography

Next stop 50 miles

If you ever needed a good reason to go to a rest stop, besides the obvious one, this is it. William Wegman recently installed large photographic murals of his infamous weimaraners in two rest stops in Maine. A third to be installed in 2008. The five paneled piece entitled "Flock" is shown above. Renowned [...]

Larger Than Life
Larger Than Life

Art, Design, Photo Murals, Photography

Larger Than Life

These images by Mark Robbins were printed life-size for his 2003 installation at the Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art creating a powerful impact on the viewer. I particularly like his choice of placement and juxtaposition. The subject is set alongside their environment almost as you would set a plant in the corner of a room. [...]

This is not a photograph
This is not a photograph

Adobe Photoshop, Art, Fine Art Printing, Photography

This is not a photograph

You may think your eyes are deceiving you, but this is not a photograph. It was not done in Photoshop either. It is some pretty amazing airbrush work by Dru Blair. It took 70 hours to paint. Even in the close up of the image it is nearly impossible to differentiate it from the real [...]

Urban surrealism
Urban surrealism

Art, Photography

Urban surrealism

At first glance you would think Dutch artist Edwin Zwakman's work is trying to find beauty in the urban landscape. What is harder to decipher is that Edwin builds these intricate scenes himself from memory with models. Since it is done from memory, with no other point of reference, each image becomes almost like an [...]

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