Interview with:Michael Hadfield [hadfieldsphotography]
PHOTOGRAPHY
 | Do you have an online gallery where one can view your photos? Not yet, but there is a website with a handful of pictures on at http://www.hadfieldsphotography.co.uk also some images on my Hadfield's Photography facebook page. |
| For how long have you done photography? How did you begin? I took my very first photo when I was around 9. It was a b&w shot of the horse guards outside Buckingham Palace with my Mum's Kodak Brownie. Had my first 35mm camera when I was 15 and been taking pictures ever since. |
| What has been your education as a photographer? I'm self-taught - at one period in my life reading around 3-4 photo magazines a month and everything I could get from the library on photography. |
| What is your favourite type of photography? I think flowers and gardens are my first love. For around five years I was a regular contributor of words and images to Organic Gardening magazine. |
| How do you choose your subjects? Generally whatever catches my eye |
| What type of preparation do you do before undertaking the photo session? make sure the batteries are charged and the CF cards cleared of old images. |
| Do you normally photograph with a purpose already in mind, or do you let yourself go with the flow? Both. With commissions I have an idea what sort images my client is looking for and so I need to produce those, and if time allows, experiment a little so that they have something extra to use. Photographing for my own amusement I tend to go with the flow. |
| Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Sigma, Olympus, Sony, Pentax...which do you place your bets on and why? I've been a Canon User for 33 years, but when I was switching from film to digital it was touch and go between Canon and Nikon. Canon just seemed to be offering a little bit more for the money. |
| Describe your current equipment: cameras, lenses, computers, accessories... Canon 40D + 400D, 17-85 EFS, 70-200 f4 L, 100 EF macro. |
| What software and plug-ins do you use to retouch and manage your photos? Photoshop and Lightroom |
| What measures do you take to protect your work against Internet piracy? watermarks |
| Are you a good salesperson of your work? In what should you improve? No |
| Do you consider yourself more technical or more artistic? technical |
| How does one develop the instinct of knowing when to press the shutter release button? practice, practice, more practice and critical reviews of images |
| When should one use film, and when should one use digital? I only use digital now. If I needed a really big print I'd dig out my Mamiya 6x7 and buy some 120 film though. |
| Does photography have the recognition that it should have in contemporary art museums? No |
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Michael Hadfield
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