Craig Miller
The FotoArt of Craig Miller
During the past four decades I have enjoyed photography as a hobbyist, then for a short time as an amateur photojournalist, then as a street photographer, and always as the photographer of family and friends. Six years ago, I attended a workshop in Seattle entitled “Photography as Art” (Offered by noted photographer Art Wolfe who many may know as the creator and presenter of the PBS series, “Travels To The Edge With Art Wolfe”). This was a watershed experience for me and resulted in my taking photography to a totally new level under the classification of “fine art photography”. Fine art photography is variously defined. Wikipedia describes it as photography “created in accordance with the vision of the photographer as artist, using photography as a medium for creative expression.” My portfolio represents sometimes what I, as an artist, and the camera have seen just “as is". While other fine art images are the result of using such tools as Adobe Photoshop to alter the original photo, thus creating, in many instances, anything from slight enhancement, to moderate manipulation, as well as in other cases to radical creative and re-creative alteration. Subjects vary from landscapes to seascapes, to portraiture, architectural images, to just about anything that can be photographed and re-created or transformed into what I call derived photography. For me personally, the satisfaction is in both the capture and the revision of images. But ultimately my greatest satisfaction and joy is through the experience of sharing the final results with others.
During the past four decades I have enjoyed photography as a hobbyist, then for a short time as an amateur photojournalist, then as a street photographer, and always as the photographer of family and friends. Six years ago, I attended a workshop in Seattle entitled “Photography as Art” (Offered by noted photographer Art Wolfe who many may know as the creator and presenter of the PBS series, “Travels To The Edge With Art Wolfe”). This was a watershed experience for me and resulted in my taking photography to a totally new level under the classification of “fine art photography”. Fine art photography is variously defined. Wikipedia describes it as photography “created in accordance with the vision of the photographer as artist, using photography as a medium for creative expression.” My portfolio represents sometimes what I, as an artist, and the camera have seen just “as is". While other fine art images are the result of using such tools as Adobe Photoshop to alter the original photo, thus creating, in many instances, anything from slight enhancement, to moderate manipulation, as well as in other cases to radical creative and re-creative alteration. Subjects vary from landscapes to seascapes, to portraiture, architectural images, to just about anything that can be photographed and re-created or transformed into what I call derived photography. For me personally, the satisfaction is in both the capture and the revision of images. But ultimately my greatest satisfaction and joy is through the experience of sharing the final results with others.
