Sheila Crawford
Palm Coast, Florida

Artist Statement

Each of Sheila’s digital collages or images starts out as a traditional photographic image, photographed with a traditional 35mm camera or with a Cannon 10D digital SLR. When using film, she scans the images with a Nikon 35mm scanner, or in the case of photographic prints or 3-D objects, she uses a Microtek flatbed scanner. When 3-D objects are scanned on the flatbed of the scanner, it is referred to as “Camera-less Photography.” Once the images have been down selected and down loaded into the “Digital Dark Room” Sheila uses her many years as a painter to work out the collage or image using thumbnail sketches in order to work out a visually interesting composition. Having brought the images into the computer, she uses Photoshop CS2 to optimize each image and to create the composition. She also uses traditional photographic darkroom techniques such as solarization, cyanotypes, or selective colorization to add effects to the image or composition. She prints all of her photographs using an Epson 7500 wide format printer, which uses 100 year archival-pigmented inks and a variety of photograph papers of various surface qualities. Sheila chooses to print her photographs herself rather than having them printed commercially so she can have complete control of the printing process. Each large format photograph is printed as an Original Limited Edition Print of 50 prints or less and receives a Certificate of Authenticity.

Sheila’s mission as a digital photographer is to use this new technology and create images which are beyond the boundaries of traditional photography.

Contact Information:

65 Courtney Place
Palm Coast, FL 32137
(386) 445-2132

Mail to: digitouch@atlantic.net