The times they are a changing.
And photography has changed radically over the last ten years; amateur photographers with a good digital SLR can learn as much in two months as it used to take a professional photographer years to learn. Creating images on film was slow and the learning curve took time. I used to get up and shoot 3 rolls of Tri X before breakfast and it would take me the rest of the day in the darkroom to see my results. With digital you can shoot 1000 frames in 20 minutes and see your mistakes right away and can adjust lighting in real time.
Most images these days are viewed online. People from all over the world are watching 2 billion videos a day on You Tube. The internet is a mutating petri dish for all kinds of visual media and you will see as you go through my site that my attentions over the last few years have turned from a linear toward an expanded wholistic vision of photography. These days I can put my photography in a Flash animation or work it into an After Effects composition or mix it together with a green screen video in Premier Pro. Adobe software has put fluid intuitive creative tools at my finger tips. Housed on my desktop I now have a Creative Suite that would only have been accessible or affordable to Hollywood post production as little as 10 years ago.
Multimedia has an appeal and is taken for granted by those growing up in a digitally communicative world; brides don't want albums the way they used to; they want to see the wedding day in multimedia 20th Century Fox art on their home theater systems. I saw a newlywed showing her professional wedding photos on her phone to an old school friend while waiting in line at the grocery store the day after her wedding. Read more
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