ABOUT US

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

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.

The Process

The Raw Image

Fine art photography is about first capturing an originl photo. This does not involve just snaping a photo. A photographer sets the image to the correct asthetics according to standed photography rules usually based on the "Golden Rule of Nature". This is not a hap hasard process but a predetermined positioning of the subject in the correct area of his lens to draw th eye of the viewer to the most important subject of his art. He must determine the lighting, focal point and background choice -sharp or out of focus. We choose our subject to define a feel of direction, movement, shadowing, and aesthetics. Most untaught photographer take terrible pictures that is why we go to college and receive art degrees in Photography. Most oil painters use a photo to design their art; we take the photo and turn it into art. No difference at all. Here is a shot of the raw image of the port of Dubrovnik, Croatia. The only thing done was the hours of time to remove the scaffolding on the chathedral dome that was being reconstructed. As well I removed all the vehicles on the road in front of the wall and all the TV and cell phone towers on top of the buildings plus roof top airconditionig and water tanks.

The Fine Art of Photography

Nothing insults a fine art photographer than people who say we "manipulate" the photo. Such people are ignorant : we design an art piece using the photo of the raw image from the original photo with programs to crop, change colour, textures, tones and layers of other photos, remove defects or unwanted parts of the raw photo. Then we imagine how we want to create a piece of art from the photo. As Ansel Adams, the first fine art photographer, said " a photo is not taken , it is made.". This is as hard, if not harder, than picking up a brush and painting a picture, We use brushes in photography as well, plus add lighting effects and many other fine tools to develop an art piece. We spend as much time on producing our art than an oil or acrylic painter does on a canvas. Many of my clients say my art looks like an oil painting or watercolour. Strange, some oil painters take a photo and change it to art on a canvas to make it like a photo just the reverse of what a fine art photographer does.

Here is my "Moon rising over Dubrovnik at Sunset"

The future of Art and The World

AI, or artificial intelligence, is now making inroads into all fields of creation, including the arts. To illustrate this, I placed my own artwork on the left, into an AI art processor, which then developed an entirely new and imaginative piece based on my original work. The resulting artwork bears no resemblance whatsoever to my original piece, resembling instead a Thomas Kincade painting of an Asian port in Vietnam or China.

Over the next decade, AI is set to revolutionize many different industries, from graphic design and magazine layout to advertising for TV, social media and printed materials, sculpting, warfare, aviation, literature, screenplays, film directing, manufacturing, secretarial work, and vehicular transportation. However, there are also concerns about the potential dangers of AI, particularly if it is allowed to operate without proper government regulation. Elon Musk has warned that the uncontrolled unleashing of AI intelligence could ultimately lead to the demise of humanity, citing the example of HAL from the movie 2001, in which a robot develops a mind of its own and no longer follows the commands of its developers, without moral or ethical reasoning and no empathy.

According to Musk, the warning signs are already apparent, and it may be too late to control what we have unleashed. For instance, current AI technology allows for drones to use facial recognition and satellite navigation to fly to a specific city address and eliminate a person on the spot. This is not science fiction but a reality that is available today on the internet. As AI continues to develop, it will undoubtedly change our world in ways we cannot yet imagine, for better or for worse.