John Sluder Photography

Room For Rent

I have a great place for someone to live if they need a place in Brooklyn.

https://post.craigslist.org/manage/1873256505/3z6uy

I have a good amount of old film & slides of my own and of my grandfathers with me in NYC. I am working at Ken Allen Studios in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. On of the core service provided my Ken’s studio is digitizing images. I have old color slides & 35mm negatives that are deteriorating from age. I wanted to save the images so I could save them for newer generations.

Many of these images are of people that have since past on and of places no longer in exist. As I get older I my perception of images chances.

One of the key challenges is to meta-tag all the images the best I can and preserve them in a format what will have longevity.

I love http://icanhascheezburger.com/, one of my most favorite sites. They have may spin off sites as well, one of them is “Happy Chair is Happy” http://happychairishappy.com/. I liked how people could see a face smiling in objects in there suroundings. I started to look and train my eye to see things in a new way. I was waiting for a train in Penn Station in New York when I saw the party hat on the trash can. I stood up the hat, wiped out the Canon G10 and snapped off a few images. A few days later I submitted it to the site. The image got voted up to be on the site. It was my 5th attempt at getting an images posted. I have more to come…

I’m A Pretty Princess

Space Living 2008 January Cover Shoot

Working on my editing skills, the thing I had to learn was to be subtle with edits and move in very small steps. This was a shot from the 2008 cover for Space Coast Living

I had an image select to an image of the day from One Model Place (OMP). I am highly flatter, OMP has some of the most talanted photographers from around the world. The image that was selected is from my up coming series of images taken underwater. I wanted to technically challenge myself and really wanted to explore the etherial look of underwater images.

http://member.onemodelplace.com/iotd_gallery.cfm?iotdgnum=1

I was told about this very creepy basement/boiler room under the studio. Being a Florida native I have no experience with underground structures. I found this place intriguing and fet with some themes I want to explore.

here is Jacquie in the basement

[View with PicLens]

I have been up here a few weeks now and really enjoying myself as well expanding my knowledge of photography and print making. There so much to learn and many very subtle nuances to catch. I made prints for some incredible artist and I marveled at the images and beauty of each of them. Ken has been sharing his mountain of known on print making and photography.

I started to look a series of images I had shot of smoke and how to create a coherent series of image that told a complete story. Up in New York there much more to art than simply a pretty picture on a wall. I have been taking with other artist and photographers about more that physical object, more about the meaning and intent of the art.