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- LEVEL OF EXPERTISE:
- Professional
- I SHOOT THE FOLLOWING:
- Artistic, Event Coverage, Models & Headshots, Portrait, Wedding, Commercial
- MY PHOTO GEAR:
- Fuji S5
50 f/1.4, 17-55 f/2.8, 80-200 f/2.8
(+michelle has a Nikon D3 and another Fuji S5 + more lenses, I can steal them if you double dog dare me)
latte
SB800(s)
+ studio w/ all the fixins, air conditioned, smells great, 1 count
+ photographer wife (technically not gear, also smells good)
+ one child (not gear either, but makes nice target, not always smells good)
- MY DIGITAL DARKROOM:
- I r a windows users. I r use XP.
coffee maker
coffee MUG
Wacom Tablet
Photoshop CS3 Extended (image stacks r4eva!)
Lightroom
Photomatix (Let's get reeeady to ooooverprooocess!!!!)
Corel Painter
MS Paint (seriously)
Also PhotoMechanic if I want to see RAW previews while I'm young
Couple AMD computers, dual display here, single display there, what do you care anyway
- FILM OR DIGITAL:
- Digital
- ABOUT ME:
- I got into photography because I always like to see things and I was like, hey, I should see things all the time. You know like a really good bowl of corn flakes or some naked person who didn't see you outside their window. No offense to Stevie Wonder but I like seeing, but I can't play the piano, so I don't have a choice. So I started photographing everything and it was easier than just drawing everything that i saw like I had been doing before. Crayola crayons are not made in China so you have to pay a premium if you want to color like a big dog. It is a little known fact that children in the Philippines are dynamite at mixing crayon wax, but I can't swim that far for a freakin box of crayons. Photography is cheaper and easier. When they come out with digital crayons I might switch back. So, photography is my passion. Well, really, imported grains are my passion, such as fonio, triticale, or millets. Domestic grains just don't pack the same pop, ya know. It has to do with the quality of weevils in third world countries. I read in National Geographic that their excrement adds a cinnamon flavor that can't be gained by adding cinnamon. But after that, photography is my passion.
Next week is National Moose and Squirrel Appreciation Week. Please be nice to Bullwinkle, if you see him.
Children lost in the jungle heed my warning. That toucan won't take you to your parents. He will only lead you to flavors of fruit.
For the record, I would like to state that I ain't latest or the greatest. But I am always learning. Like a freakin alien cyborg with little scanner thingies zippin around and green cellular fuel tanks all bubbling. Or maybe like a Vulcan with less pointy eyebrows. It's hard to say really. But I am me and you are Robert De Niro in Awakenings (1990, starring Robin Williams) all drooling on yourself saying "Learn from me. Learn from me." And I am staring right back into that drool with my clipboard going, "Nano. Nano, my friend. Nano. Nano." (at this point, you should be moved to tears). I think I am trying to say that I am always learning, and I am not particularly bothered by drool (unless its really stringy).
If you are a I-do-not-photoshop-because-I-believe-true-photography-comes-through-the-lense kind of person, please stop abusing drugs and hanging out with art hippies. Also refrain from using this weak excuse to hide your poor computer skills and limited understanding of digital photography. There is no such thing as a photo that isn't edited in some way. You cannot translate film to paper in the darkroom without some type of manipulation. And digital... well... we all know the magic you can (or can't?) do there. Just because someone is using photoshop does not mean they are 'fixing' their photograph. There is no limit to digital... unless you set one. Also, you could argue shooting jpg and not editing in photoshop is lazy since you let the camera do the processing. If you shoot RAW, you manually oversee all of the processing that would have been done in the camera, and are able to produce higher quality images by far, if you know what you are doing. Can I get an amen, brothas and sistas?
If I haven't embarrassed myself or the people around me today, then I haven't woken up yet. Give me time.
- IN WHAT PART OF LOUISVILLE ARE YOU LOCATED:
- Our studio is in Middletown. My house is in Lyndon. I am right here. What are you asking? I don't have time for this. I have to make some more coffee.
- WEBSITE:
- http://www.studioelouisville.com
Events
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First Monthly LPC Salon!
September 2, 2008 at 7pm – Mellwood Arts Center -
Bellies & Babies Tour
September 4, 2008 from 4pm to 10:30pm – TBA
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A really cute girl at the Baxter train starion. He really likes your work. Next summer I will be doing his senior portraits but I may have to just bring him over to you.
Grasshopper, I will help you help yourself. First you will meet a strange man on the road. He will offer you candy. But, instead, he will teach you kung-fu. You will avenge your master. Then you will walk the earth on a path of learning, where you will form the questions. Then you will match those questions to the answers on Jeopardy. Then you will be master. Only then will you open your baitshop as you have dreamed. And once you have mastered baiting, you will no longer require Photoshop.
Also a bit ignorant, because as you pointed out, I've never developed a print in a traditional darkroom that I didn't manipulate to some degree.
Of course, don't mind me, I've been called elitist and demeaning around here in an infamously deleted thread for my opinions.... :)
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