ARTIST PROFILE
STYLE
I tend to shoot wide open in digital color and, increasingly, in black-n-white. While I don't limit myself to any particular subject matter, I have a soft spot in my heart for street portraiture. You can learn a lot about a place and its people by exploring the human expressions it inspires. Not only the lines and light on some stranger's face, but the shape, weight, and inclination of his or her body. All the street photographers I know (or admire from afar) understand this on a cellular level; it's self-evident in the media they produce. You really have to get out there, be aware, and capture what's coming. In this regard, street photography is the ultimate creative endeavor in the practice of presence.
GEAR
My gear consists of one very old and battered Canon EOS Rebel T2i and an assortment of used and gifted lenses, the usefulness of which is almost entirely dependent on my environment. Right now, my preferred lens is probably the Canon 40mm f2.8 STM, aka the "shorty forty" or the "middle pancake", because it's quite inexpensive, lightweight, and most importantly for my particular tastes, it produces a fairly nice dynamic range in bland or muddy light (which is pretty much the norm in many of the east-Asian countries where I am want to explore). I don't really use tripods or monopods at this point, and my flash game is, shall we say, "in development." It appears that getting really, really close to another human being and showering them with incandescence when they least expect it is more of a psychological (or perhaps even ethical) challenge than a technical one. So... updates forthcoming.
I tend to shoot wide open in digital color and, increasingly, in black-n-white. While I don't limit myself to any particular subject matter, I have a soft spot in my heart for street portraiture. You can learn a lot about a place and its people by exploring the human expressions it inspires. Not only the lines and light on some stranger's face, but the shape, weight, and inclination of his or her body. All the street photographers I know (or admire from afar) understand this on a cellular level; it's self-evident in the media they produce. You really have to get out there, be aware, and capture what's coming. In this regard, street photography is the ultimate creative endeavor in the practice of presence.
GEAR
My gear consists of one very old and battered Canon EOS Rebel T2i and an assortment of used and gifted lenses, the usefulness of which is almost entirely dependent on my environment. Right now, my preferred lens is probably the Canon 40mm f2.8 STM, aka the "shorty forty" or the "middle pancake", because it's quite inexpensive, lightweight, and most importantly for my particular tastes, it produces a fairly nice dynamic range in bland or muddy light (which is pretty much the norm in many of the east-Asian countries where I am want to explore). I don't really use tripods or monopods at this point, and my flash game is, shall we say, "in development." It appears that getting really, really close to another human being and showering them with incandescence when they least expect it is more of a psychological (or perhaps even ethical) challenge than a technical one. So... updates forthcoming.