Interview with:L I G H T [pdanner]
PHOTOGRAPHY
 | Do you have an online gallery where one can view your photos? |
| For how long have you done photography? How did you begin? I've been interested in it since I was a kid, my Grandmother gave me a Nikon EM SLR that was too complicated for her to use. I've been shooting since 2004. I was lucky to 'see the light' early on, I'm a photographer for the U.S. Coast Guard primarily. |
| What has been your education as a photographer? I was trained initially at the Defense Information School (DINFOS), which is a school for military photojournalists. It was short time, but intense at the same time. It's been mostly trial and error and reading a lot. |
| Please list any exhibitions in which you have participated. I haven't participated in any thus far, but I've been published internationally as a photographer for the Coast Guard. |
| What is your favourite type of photography? Photojournalism is my favorite medium within photography. I enjoy editorial photography and the freedom for creativity within the advertising realm as well. |
| What do you try to express through your photography? There isn't one particular expression for my body of work, really. It's always changing, like me. I want to fuel open minds. My work is up for interpretation, and I feel if I've provoked any emotion in a person then I've succeeded in what I'm aiming to do. |
| How do you choose your subjects? It goes one of two ways generally; either I see a picture in my mind and seek the subject out to put them in that image, or I see someone that inspires an image in my head, then go from there and make that image. I enjoy the social aspect of that almost as much as I do the artistic. |
| What type of preparation do you do before undertaking the photo session? I always meet with the client to discuss ideas, bringing them into the creative process. I occasionally look at work from my mentors and fellow photographers for inspiration, as well as listen to music. |
| Do you normally photograph with a purpose already in mind, or do you let yourself go with the flow? I always have a plan, but that's not to say that if the client and myself have a spur of the moment idea, we won't try it. |
| Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Sigma, Olympus, Sony, Pentax...which do you place your bets on and why? I use Nikon and Hasselblad. Nikon for it's diversity and, in my opinion, more photographer friendly camera bodies. Hasselblad... Well, because it's Hasselblad. |
| Describe your current equipment: cameras, lenses, computers, accessories... I use a Nikon D200 and a couple of lenses, and Nikon SB-800 speed lights. I edit on an Apple. |
| What software and plug-ins do you use to retouch and manage your photos? I use Photoshop and Aperture, though I have heard about Nikon Capture NX and I'm interested in it. I'm also on the verge of purchasing a copy of Noise Ninja. |
| What measures do you take to protect your work against Internet piracy? I don't have any full size images online, they are all web size images. Other than that, I don't use watermarks. |
| Which past masters of photography do you most admire? I'm a big Robert Capa fan, as well as Ansel Adams and James Nachtwey. |
| Do you consider yourself more technical or more artistic? I would like to say both, or at least I try to balance both. Sometimes it bothers me when photographers don't know their equipment. I think that is a basic foundation piece for anything you do. Just like an artist has to know the capability of their paintbrush, know your camera. |
| How does one develop the instinct of knowing when to press the shutter release button? I think you have to have a sense for what you're looking to get out of any particular image. Once you have that, you'll know when. |
| Which websites for photographers do you frequently visit? |
| Is there any particular technique that you could share? I think the best advice I have ever been told, which stuck was... expose for your background, and light your subject. |
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