Techniques by Jim Corkrum Page 1 Thanks for wanting to know more about my work. As you can see from the Web pages, I work in both photography and with digital painting...what I now refer to as "Photo Expressionism. I enjoy both media very much. Here is some information to help better you better understand my images and my work in general. Background I originally became interested in photography in college when I took a basic photo course. My interest soared immediately and I took more classes, eventually became a teaching assistant. After college, I continued to play with photography, but eventually my interest began to wane as life's complexities and demands overtook most every aspect of life. In the early eighties, I started working with computers, which eventually became a profession. A few years ago, I began reading about the new "digital darkroom" and learned how today's scanners and printers brought new capabilities and possibilities to today's photographers. I could feel a new interest in photography beginning to take shape. I acquired a new camera and two lenses in a trade for a computer and began my new adventures in photography. As I took more pictures, the excitement grew and so did the equipment list. Today, I have more than enough camera equipment, computer hardware, and software to happily produce the images you see on this web site. As my body of work began to grow, I began to remember why I stopped taking serious photographs after college. Yes, life's realities did catch up to me, especially with work and raising a family. But perhaps the real reason was that no matter what I did with a camera all those years ago, the photos never turned on paper out the way I saw the image when I took the picture. I didn't have the luxury of a darkroom and in those days I wanted to work in color, which was really out the question. So, I had to use commercial processing labs to put my images on photo paper. The photos that I looked forward to seeing often came back as nearly lifeless images. Film processors could never get it right, nor really cared to do so. Except for a few professional labs, It is still the same today. Now, because of advanced computer technology, my images on paper and on the web site have a life all their own because they are what I want them to be. With the computer, I control almost every aspect of the photographic process. And as I learn more, my control gets better and the possibilities become greater. With the tools at hand, there are an infinite number of possibilities for each image I create. What artist could ask for more? Continue to Page 2, 3, 4