I love long exposures!Five minutes,ten minutes, if I can make a photo out of stars,car lights,anything that's moving , the turning of the earth, that's where I'll have my camera set up. Astronomical photography got me into this, and with the use of Photoshop I've got the tools to make invisible things visible. I've always dreamed of showing the Milky Way rising over Monument Valley or popping through Delicate Arch, and since I started that work many good things have come to me. It's difficult to make a truly original
photograph. Photographic
ideas are worked and reworked
so often that even the good ones get soft, like overcooked
broccoli. Yet, when a good one strikes, it's a feeling in the gut, it feels right, and after some work, it starts to look right in the photo. That's why I love digital so much: I can refine an idea until I've got that gut feeling and I know it.
-Arthur Rosch
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I really started photography to get photos of the night sky, but it was so cold and miserable that I gave it up. Then digital cameras came along and energized me; they're so much fun that I've discovered a veritable lifestyle. I am becoming, by default, a professional, since more of my income derives from my photo work. I find this hilarious, as I've spent
forty years attempting to make money writing novels or playing music. It's kind of like the photo thing happened while I wasn't looking. Trying to make money out of creative art is so impractical, I might as well be a sculptor, or a poet.
Do you know any professional sculptors who make a good living from their art? Neither do I. So...the fact that Popular Photography just bought one of my "skyscapes"
is gratifying and very funny.
In 1978 I sold a story to Playboy Magazine, it won an
award, I was paid two thousand dollars and flown to New York.
Until this year, that was the last time I made money off my creativity.
This isn't quite so bizarre,
and I'm more grown up, so I think I'll be okay.
For more
images and more elaborate material, see
my website at www.artsdigitalphoto.com
Copyright for these photos belongs to Arthur Rosch
Images may not be copied, downloaded, or used in any way without the expressed, written permission of the photographer.