Frank has been capturing images throughout the Southwest United States and other favorite locations for over twenty-five years. An avid hiker and adventurer, Frank created backcountryimages.com in 1994 to showcase his photographic talents and share his love of the natural world. Frank's journeys have taken him to New Zealand, Fiji, Australia, Italy, England, Mexico, the Caribbean, and across America in search of inspiring images. Frank's photography has been exhibited at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Cave Creek Fine Arts Festival, and Gammage Theater at Arizona State University. His photography has been featured in Plateau Journal and CERCA Magazine.
the backcountryimages motto: my destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing
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We now live in an age of digital manipulation. It is not as different from the world of the traditional darkroom as you might believe. Photographers have been "manipulating" their images since the first daguerrotype was created. However, with the advent of the computer, the types of manipulation now possible have expanded exponentially. Software programs allow photographers to create images by blending parts of different images into one, and adding elements that were never originally in the viewfinder. That is not my philosophy of photography.
I use Photoshop and Lightroom to process my images in much the same way I used to work in the traditional darkroom. Using my computer, I often add contrast, adjust exposure levels and add reasonable levels of saturation to make my final images. I believe that if you need to work for more than five or ten minutes on an image in your computer, you should have taken a better image in the first place, or you are trying to change and add things to what could never have been seen through the viewfinder.
I hope that my image processing procedures will bring out the feelings and emotions I felt when I initially captured the image. I use Nik, Adobe and Alien Skin Software products to enhance the images I capture, not to create images I never saw.
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702-493-7073