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A "Nudes" Photo Gallery, with a new format opened in November, 1997, and new images have been
added to the Scenic/Travel and Figure in the Environment galleries. If you like what you see,
please come back,as there will be ongoing improvements and additions to our collection.
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Alan and Julie Krauss
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Alan Krauss has been a part-time
photographer since the 1960's, but his formal education is in physics, receiving
a Bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1965, and a Ph. D.
in solid state physics from Purdue University in 1971. Dr. Krauss is currently
head of the Thin Film Growth and Characterization Group in the Materials
Science and Chemistry Divisions at Argonne National Laboratory, and is an
adjunct Professor of Materials Science at the University of Wisconsin. Krauss
is photographically largely self-taught although he has attended courses
at the Maine Photographic Workshop and the Midwest Photographic Workshop
where he has also lectured on the use of digital imaging methods in photography
of the nude, and has studied with the French photographer Lucien Clergue.
He has found that the computer-related aspects of his scientific research
have provided new routes of artistic expression in his photographic work,
and is an ardent advocate of digital imaging as an indispensable tool for
the visual artist. He is the author of an article in Apogee
Photo Magazine (Vol. 1, No. 6 - September, 1996) on the subject of the
relationship between painting, photography, and digital imaging.
Samples of his work may be found at a number of locations other than this
site. They include the Enthusiast's
Gallery ,
Most of Alan's photographic works are for sale, and may be ordered through
the Wind Ridge Photography Gallery.
Selected works by Krauss and other photographers are also offered for sale
at the Fine Art Nude Photography Network Store.
Wind Ridge Studios is a member of the Fine
Art Nude Photography Network.
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"Julie of Wind Ridge," a.k.a.
Mrs. Alan R. Krauss, has no idea what she wants to be when she grows up.
She has degrees in mathematics from The University of Chicago and the University
of Illinois, and has done stints in teaching college math, programming,
bookkeeping, managing teleprocessing networks, teaching piano and performing
semi-professionally, mopping floors, and mothering. In the late 70's she
became an avid needlepointer and has been designing needlepoint ever since.
In 1995, however, she learned Peyote Stitch beadweaving in order to expand
her repertoire of needlepoint techniques; this was a huge mistake, as she
has done no needlepoint since.
Julie's work clearly shows the influence of Islamic and modern-quilt art;
nevertheless it is eclectic in its inspiration and is not intended to refer
to cultural styles. All of her designs are original, including her interpretations
of such common motives as the star and the hexagon. Instructions for her
designs are available through The Bead Boutique in Glen Ellyn, Illinois,
and in the Wind Ridge Beadwork Gallery.
Alan and Julie founded Wind Ridge Studios, Naperville, Illinois, in 1995.
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must be properly calibrated. On a Macintosh, the correct monitor profile
should be selected using the ColorSync control panel. If the Knoll Gamma
control panel (part of Photoshop) is installed, it should be set to a monitor
value of 1.8. The gray point and color/ambient light balance should be selected
according to the manual. Finally, the contrast and brightness settings on
your monitor should be adjusted so that all steps from 0 to 100% on the
step wedge below should be distinguishable. You should then remove, glue,
braze, weld or solder the controls in these positions (or at least mark
them so they can be easilt reset to the same values).
If you have a Windows machine, good luck. System-wide color and gamma
adjustments are promised to be available "any time now".
In practice, I find that my dye sublimation and silver gelatin b/w prints
are more accurately represented if the separation between the 95% and 100%
steps is barely discernible.
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