Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Photos, Images and Jpeg's oh my!
I literally have thousands upon thousands of images to go through for this blog. Forgive me in my haste for any delay in posting images for future reference
Getting Started
I've been playing with a camera and taking snapshots since I was a little kid. As I progressed in age cameras and picture taking took a significant foothold on my psyche. I started out playing with a 126 Kodak with a cube flash graduating to a 110 Kodak (more of a backwards step) to polaroids, to the luxurious Nikon 35mm my father owned or any of the miscellanious cameras that my grandfather owned. Upon entering my teen years I bought my own 35mm Minolta X370 camera which I still own as of today. I have thus graduated to the digital age working with a few newer model Nikon cameras.
It wasn't until 2004 at the latest that I really started to concentrate on what I looked at and what I took pictures of in a semiprofessional sense. I learned that not everything has to be in focus and what you see is not always what you get nor is all that desirable. Playing with light, understanding light and being able to manipulate light takes a bit of practice and is ever evolving. I believe in the addage what you see is what you get, but only to a degree. If you know how light works and how your camera works as well, reality as we know it takes on a bit of a change. Time travel is possible through a camera lense as well as an alternate colored universe. Everything through the camera lense is perspective, objective, and unfortunately/fortunatley subjective.
I like the extremes in photography. Vivid color, striking black and white, detail, and abstract and challenging images so to speak. Not altered images done in photoshop. Photoshop and photography are separate entities vying for the same title in todays world. I prefer to keep them separate as they are different medias. You like to use photoshop, good for you, but don't expect me to compliment you on the final image as a photograph. I take photographs. I shoot. I print. I'm done. End of story.
So, who am I? I'm just a big kid looking at the world through the lense of a camera. I hope to bring you a glimpse of a world not usually akin to the casual observer. MY job as a photographer is to present beauty and splendor of what we call life in a way that brings you closer to the image. I'm to draw you in and make you take a moment or two and see.
It wasn't until 2004 at the latest that I really started to concentrate on what I looked at and what I took pictures of in a semiprofessional sense. I learned that not everything has to be in focus and what you see is not always what you get nor is all that desirable. Playing with light, understanding light and being able to manipulate light takes a bit of practice and is ever evolving. I believe in the addage what you see is what you get, but only to a degree. If you know how light works and how your camera works as well, reality as we know it takes on a bit of a change. Time travel is possible through a camera lense as well as an alternate colored universe. Everything through the camera lense is perspective, objective, and unfortunately/fortunatley subjective.
I like the extremes in photography. Vivid color, striking black and white, detail, and abstract and challenging images so to speak. Not altered images done in photoshop. Photoshop and photography are separate entities vying for the same title in todays world. I prefer to keep them separate as they are different medias. You like to use photoshop, good for you, but don't expect me to compliment you on the final image as a photograph. I take photographs. I shoot. I print. I'm done. End of story.
So, who am I? I'm just a big kid looking at the world through the lense of a camera. I hope to bring you a glimpse of a world not usually akin to the casual observer. MY job as a photographer is to present beauty and splendor of what we call life in a way that brings you closer to the image. I'm to draw you in and make you take a moment or two and see.
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