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Ever since, I took film photography in Jr. High, I fell in love with Photography. As time went on, I just stayed a simple hobby photographer. Many, after seeing my work, encouraged me to become a professional photographer. My love for all arts, including photography, became a huge passion in my life.
I graduated from Ash Worth University in photography. As I have learned over time with photography, that digital is my favorite. Digital allows me to do more with my art, that film could not. I look through life like I am looking through the lens of my camera. Thats what it means to me, about having the "eye" for photography.
- Leslie E.
I have always, since I can remember, loved the art of photography. Admiring these photographs was all it was until I was 17 and I found out about Photo shop. I mastered editing my friends pictures that they took into fine works of art. Removing blemishes, adding contrast, changing exposure, adding vibrancy, enhancing the eyes, etc. Until recently did I realize I'm spending all this time fixing other peoples photos and not taking any credit for them.
So I already had some idea of how to take a picture and spend hours trying to make them look artistic or fix lighting, exposure, or add some blur to the background. What I really needed to learn how to take great photo with little or no enhancing which actually degrades the photo more and more. My wife Leslie, already has graduated photography school. She also had a decent Digital SLR so I started taking pictures, playing with the settings on the camera, mostly using those "auto" modes not knowing how to manually set the camera up. I was taking pretty good photos, but not professional type photos.
My wife Leslie saw that I had an act for photography and introduced me to the New York Institute of Photography which I enrolled in. We bought a brand new Nikon D40x 10.2 Mega Pixel and I found out how much this school has already taught me and as a current student I am still learning and progressing.
- Cory E.