Look is my favorite word.
I am a photographer with a BFA in painting, who spends most days working as a multimedia designer creating motion design and character animation.
With stills, I want to be direct. I want to work with what is in front of me and use no special effects. I like composing in the camera; so very little cropping gets done afterwards in the photo software. My favorite kind of play is to go looking with a camera in my hands and work at getting the fundamentals right.
I am looking for the shortest distance between seeing what interests me and communicating it. This usually comes about by some combination of deliberation and spontaneity. I have a deliberate intention to shoot, then I allow myself to be inspired by what I discover while out looking. It’s like capturing a gesture in painting. If I’m excited by what I see, the feeling loads itself into the brush and the stroke shows my enthusiasm. Feeling informs expression. Contrast of shape, texture, color, and ideas are important to me, but it’s a compelling image that draws me to take the picture first. It may be a bubbly flux of water and flat, hard sand embedded with geometric tracks or a sliver of light cutting though buildings to lay a stripe of color on another building. Although photography is a solitary and meditative activity for me, I almost always want to share it and say, “Look... look what I saw.”
With stills, I want to be direct. I want to work with what is in front of me and use no special effects. I like composing in the camera; so very little cropping gets done afterwards in the photo software. My favorite kind of play is to go looking with a camera in my hands and work at getting the fundamentals right.
I am looking for the shortest distance between seeing what interests me and communicating it. This usually comes about by some combination of deliberation and spontaneity. I have a deliberate intention to shoot, then I allow myself to be inspired by what I discover while out looking. It’s like capturing a gesture in painting. If I’m excited by what I see, the feeling loads itself into the brush and the stroke shows my enthusiasm. Feeling informs expression. Contrast of shape, texture, color, and ideas are important to me, but it’s a compelling image that draws me to take the picture first. It may be a bubbly flux of water and flat, hard sand embedded with geometric tracks or a sliver of light cutting though buildings to lay a stripe of color on another building. Although photography is a solitary and meditative activity for me, I almost always want to share it and say, “Look... look what I saw.”