Dale Hoopingarner Art Collections
Shop for artwork from Dale Hoopingarner based on themed collections. Each image may be purchased as a canvas print, framed print, metal print, and more! Every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Artwork by Dale Hoopingarner
Each image may be purchased as a canvas print, framed print, metal print, and more! Every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Ceremony by Dale Hoopingarner
Centerpiece by Dale Hoopingarner
White Wedding by Dale Hoopingarner
Ephemeral by Dale Hoopingarner
Dahling by Dale Hoopingarner
C-Cubed by Dale Hoopingarner
The Queen and Her Court by Dale Hoopingarner
Special by Dale Hoopingarner
Hummer Food by Dale Hoopingarner
Emergence by Dale Hoopingarner
Patriotic by Dale Hoopingarner
Spring Collection II by Dale Hoopingarner
Mirrored Palette by Dale Hoopingarner
Mirrored Hosta I by Dale Hoopingarner
The Day After by Dale Hoopingarner
Underappreciated by Dale Hoopingarner
Beginning by Dale Hoopingarner
Wedded Bliss by Dale Hoopingarner
Fall Leaf Collage II by Dale Hoopingarner
Dogwood Delight by Dale Hoopingarner
Early Fall Mix by Dale Hoopingarner
Mirror Mirror by Dale Hoopingarner
Sundial by Dale Hoopingarner
Sunny Side Up by Dale Hoopingarner
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About Dale Hoopingarner
Dale Hoopingarner has been an avid nature lover all his life, starting with early Boy Scout campouts and hikes and continuing with gardening and kayaking today -- and now is also a scanographer.. “I love the scanner photography technique – the way the detail and depth preserves the transient beauty of flowers. I never know for sure what combination of flowers and plants will work best on the scanner, so it is always a joyous act of discovery when a beautiful picture emerges on the computer screen.”
Scanner photography isn’t a photograph, at least not in the traditional sense. The camera is a high-end digital scanner, with the flowers and leaves arranged face down on the open glass of the scanner and the image taken in a darkened room. The picture is then retouched with a computer only to remove any stray pollen or dust, being careful to never alter the original arrangement, preserving the integrity and beauty of the plants. Since the editing is often done at a level of nearly 1/300th of an inch, each picture can take 10 to 20 hours or more to complete.
Because the scans are made at very high resolution, typically 1200 dots per inch or more, the printer becomes the “zoom lens” – the final images can be printed four times the original image size without affecting the print quality, making for some stunning close-ups of flowers and leaves, down to the pollen on stamens or hairs on a stem. Because of the way scanners capture the image by moving across the surface the image is captured with zero spherical or chromatic aberration that a typical camera lens might introduce. Coupling that with a completely flat plane of focus and you have the rich and visually deep images that scanography produces.
Dale’s work has been seen at juried shows in New England. He was also selected as a Featured Artist by West Coast Imaging.