Robert P Ruschak Fine Art Photography

Robert P Ruschak Fine Art Photography http://www.rpruschak.com Links are provided to get you to Purephoto.com where select work is for sale, and more will be added.

Galleries of my work including: Pittsburgh Area Steel Mills, Nature Landscape, Fine Art Photography, Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob, People and Portraits.

The second year in a row. My photograph was selected to move on to the VA's National Veterans Creative Arts Competition....
08/29/2025

The second year in a row. My photograph was selected to move on to the VA's National Veterans Creative Arts Competition. The title is Fallen Star. Vietnam Vets get it.

I entered the National Veterans Creative Arts Competition, and my piece was selected from the local competition to move ...
09/05/2024

I entered the National Veterans Creative Arts Competition, and my piece was selected from the local competition to move on to the national competition.

The University of Seville in Spain has contacted me about using one or some of my pictures of Woodside Place. It’s a fac...
07/27/2024

The University of Seville in Spain has contacted me about using one or some of my pictures of Woodside Place. It’s a facility for people with alzheimers that was built by Perkins Eastman Architects. It was my first big architectural shoot. David Hoglund was the project architect who hired me. That was the first of about 12 more buildings I shot for them over the years. I’ll be posting more from that shoot. Perkins Eastman was far ahead of everyone else with these type of facilities and it was an honor to work with them.

I love nice surprises. Strandberg Publishing in Copenhagen, Denmark will be using one of my Fallingwater photos in a boo...
05/27/2022

I love nice surprises. Strandberg Publishing in Copenhagen, Denmark will be using one of my Fallingwater photos in a book on Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects. The book will be released in October. The scene is from below the falls and is a great view to see how the house's cantilevers mimic the landscape. That area is restricted and you need permission to get there. If you aren't very careful it's an easy place to get hurt. I was never hurt there. Enjoy the picture, it isn't worth the risk to climb down there.

I scanned and retouched this picture of my mother's family. My best guess is it was taken in 1936. On the original you c...
12/20/2021

I scanned and retouched this picture of my mother's family. My best guess is it was taken in 1936. On the original you can see it was shot on an 8x10 negative and contact printed. Once you get it into Photoshop and start enlarging it to find the flaws to correct them you get to learn what a problem dust is in conventional photography. With the old studio shots you'll find that the photographers weren't always very good at lighting. I evened out areas on this print. Never-the-less it's still rewarding to come up with a decent print.

My Dad was good at keeping old photographs and I found this picture of his family. Three more children were added to th...
12/20/2021

My Dad was good at keeping old photographs and I found this picture of his family. Three more children were added to the family after this was taken. I'm guessing my dad was 10 when this was taken so the picture was taken about 1925. I've put the original untouched photo here and then the one I was able to make using SilverFast and Photoshop. Even with the programs there was a lot of work that was needed to get it where I liked it.

Here are two prints that have been ordered. The steel mill gallery is still the most frequently visited gallery on my si...
11/24/2020

Here are two prints that have been ordered. The steel mill gallery is still the most frequently visited gallery on my site. One is of the Duquesne Works taken in 1988 and the blast furnace is Dorothy 6. The other is the end of a shift taken at the Homestead Works in 1982.

To explain the bicycles further. I used 3 formats, 35mm, 2 1/4"x 2 1/4" and 4x5. The bike series started with 35mm but t...
07/17/2020

To explain the bicycles further. I used 3 formats, 35mm, 2 1/4"x 2 1/4" and 4x5. The bike series started with 35mm but the format was too rectangular and focused too much on the bicycles. The 4x5 ones were better but lugging around the camera and huge tripod on this wasn't very practicable. The 2 1/4" fit the bill. It wasn't just the bike but the surroundings, plus my love of line and shape. I submitted 3 or 5 of the bike pictures to Hasselblad for a book they were doing on their camera system. The final choice on pictures to be used was made at their headquarters in Sweden. I was very pleased when one of my pictures was included in the book. It was published by Hove Foto Books in Great Britain in 1991.

The bicycle series started while I was taking my photography classes at Point Park U. through Pittsburgh Film Makers. Fi...
07/16/2020

The bicycle series started while I was taking my photography classes at Point Park U. through Pittsburgh Film Makers. Film Makers was in Oakland at the time and I would wander around looking for ideas for the portfolios we had to produce for classes. I found it interesting where, and how, students would park their bikes and felt there was possibilities there for a portfolio. These two pictures from my first excursion on Pitt's campus convinced me that there was something worth pursuing.

Early bike pictures. I was getting closer for what I was looking for with these. These were taken at CMU and both bikes ...
07/15/2020

Early bike pictures. I was getting closer for what I was looking for with these. These were taken at CMU and both bikes were about 20' from each other.

Yvonne's Hat
06/19/2020

Yvonne's Hat

My father was a Navy Seabee during WW2. His best friend's family had a huge farm in W.VA. This is one of the barns. The ...
05/29/2020

My father was a Navy Seabee during WW2. His best friend's family had a huge farm in W.VA. This is one of the barns. The farm house and the barn were all over 100 years old and goes back before the Civil War. This was a tough negative to make silver gelatin prints from. I was trying to use a mechanical sheet film holder. It was a great idea, but next to impossible to get rid of dust. I really love my Silverfast scan program with it's dust and scratch removal. This is the first time I've ever shown this picture.

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