about cindy's work

After selecting the images from a shoot that I want to develop, I use my ‘digital darkroom’ to edit
images along traditional darkroom parameters such as brightness/darkness, contrast, saturation
and gradient curves (with black and whites, setting all tones along the gray scale precisely where I
want them to be).  Artistic effect is achieved primarily by my use of light and composition as I shoot.

An outsider artist, I stray from the beaten path of standard photography subject matter.  For the
most part, I do not look for photo opportunities, but, instead, shoot  'found moments'.  Seeing
art in the everyday world that surrounds me, I shoot whatever strikes my eye and my heart in such a
way that I feel compelled to capture the image with my camera.

Perhaps because I take photographs of things that strike my heart as much as my eye, viewers of
my work frequently comment on how moving it is.  For me, this is the most difficult part of the
process: capturing the photograph in such a way that it will resonate emotionally with the viewer in
the same way the original subject moved me.