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ABOUT US
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Dale Arts is a gallery of collections of fine art images created to beautify your decor whether at home or office or graphic design shop. Some of the art is from redesigned photography, some are reprints of paintings created by Dale Arts, All photographic art is done by Tom Dale, a fine art photographer for over 20 years who has won many awards at art shows throughout Ontario, Canada.
We are also a design and reproduction service for persons wishing to have their photographs designed into art from realistic to watercolour, abstract, oil painting formats. For this service the photograph must be greater than 1 MB in size. Images taken by a cell phone are too small but an iPad photo is a great size to work with. See the Services section of our website .
Tom lives in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and has travelled the world to gather images that he turns into art
What defines fine-art photography?
Fine art photography is a style of photography created by an artist. Fine art photos are photographs created purely for their aesthetic and imaginative qualities. Fine art photographers create work that goes beyond merely capturing what is in front of the camera. It can be a collusion of many layers of several images or addition of graphic designs to an image or a complete mode of art change. It starts as an image and then the artist molds the image into a creative piece of art similar to or much different than the original image or images. Many clients think that my fine art photography is an oil painting or a watercolour painting or abstract art. The origination of fine art photography was Ansel Adams who said “ A photograph is not taken, it is made”. Professional photographers do not merely just take a picture but design where the subject is placed in the viewfinder to give the most aesthetic composition of the subject and use lighting to enhance the finished product. Then the Fine Art Photographer uses a computer or developing room or combinations of images to create his masterpiece. It is far from the click of the camera to the canvas.
