If You Saw It With Your Own Eyes...
Dec 16, 2016 10:25:18 GMT -5
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Post by Ron on Dec 16, 2016 10:25:18 GMT -5
If you saw it with your own eyes... you missed the shot.
My first SLR camera (an Argus C3) was dropped into my hands when I was 11 years old. Those first rolls of film were dreadful but I never gave up on learning how to make them better. By the time I reached high school I'd become proficient enough to be on the yearbook staff as a photographer in my senior year. I joined the US Navy after high school and enlisted as a Photographer's Mate. I attended and graduated from the United States Naval Schools of Photography and spent the balance of my five year enlistment as a fleet and investigative photographer.
Since my discharge in 1982 I've kept myself involved in photography but the introduction and evolution of digital cameras changed everything. I no longer needed film and a dark room (yes, I had my own dark room for many years). Since acquiring my first DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) camera in 2006 I've had my work published in "Gulf Coast Wine", "Southern Living", "225" and "Sport" magazines. In 2010 one of my photographs was published in the August, 2010 issue of "Playboy" magazine thus insuring that my photography has literally been viewed by millions.
Currently my work is displayed and available for sale (and actually selling!) in a few antique and variety shops in the Baton Rouge area. Additionally, my work has been displayed in local coffee shops and record stores twice a year during the "White Nights, Bright Lights" art hop in the Mid-City area of Baton Rouge.
It's been a fun and at times incredibly satisfying hobby/passion and I continue to shoot though as I seem to always have done it comes in spurts often controlled by a combination of weather and free time.
All of that said I'd like to share a few of my favorite photos with y'all if you'd care to see them.
One of the great things about all of this is I'm the de facto family photographer and my children play along wonderfully and ask me to photograph my grandchildren once a year near their birthday. The first photos I'd like to share are of the most recent one of those shoots. This is my granddaughter, Meghan, a few weeks before her 14th birthday.
As always these were photographed outdoors. I don't like flashes - don't even own one. I'm a natural light photographer and if I'm shooting portraiture I prefer it to be environmental portraiture using natural light and, off camera, a mom or dad holding a reflector or two. These were all shot with a basic 50mm lens - another thing I try to avoid - zoom lenses. I have them, I use them but my heart is with fixed focal length lenses.
After these... we'll get creepy a little bit - I love creepy, abandoned places.
My first SLR camera (an Argus C3) was dropped into my hands when I was 11 years old. Those first rolls of film were dreadful but I never gave up on learning how to make them better. By the time I reached high school I'd become proficient enough to be on the yearbook staff as a photographer in my senior year. I joined the US Navy after high school and enlisted as a Photographer's Mate. I attended and graduated from the United States Naval Schools of Photography and spent the balance of my five year enlistment as a fleet and investigative photographer.
Since my discharge in 1982 I've kept myself involved in photography but the introduction and evolution of digital cameras changed everything. I no longer needed film and a dark room (yes, I had my own dark room for many years). Since acquiring my first DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) camera in 2006 I've had my work published in "Gulf Coast Wine", "Southern Living", "225" and "Sport" magazines. In 2010 one of my photographs was published in the August, 2010 issue of "Playboy" magazine thus insuring that my photography has literally been viewed by millions.
Currently my work is displayed and available for sale (and actually selling!) in a few antique and variety shops in the Baton Rouge area. Additionally, my work has been displayed in local coffee shops and record stores twice a year during the "White Nights, Bright Lights" art hop in the Mid-City area of Baton Rouge.
It's been a fun and at times incredibly satisfying hobby/passion and I continue to shoot though as I seem to always have done it comes in spurts often controlled by a combination of weather and free time.
All of that said I'd like to share a few of my favorite photos with y'all if you'd care to see them.
One of the great things about all of this is I'm the de facto family photographer and my children play along wonderfully and ask me to photograph my grandchildren once a year near their birthday. The first photos I'd like to share are of the most recent one of those shoots. This is my granddaughter, Meghan, a few weeks before her 14th birthday.
As always these were photographed outdoors. I don't like flashes - don't even own one. I'm a natural light photographer and if I'm shooting portraiture I prefer it to be environmental portraiture using natural light and, off camera, a mom or dad holding a reflector or two. These were all shot with a basic 50mm lens - another thing I try to avoid - zoom lenses. I have them, I use them but my heart is with fixed focal length lenses.
After these... we'll get creepy a little bit - I love creepy, abandoned places.
