It all started at the age of 15 for Phill Mansfield as he discovered his passion for photography. Starting off with a $50 waterproof Canon aqua sports camera just taking pictures as a hobby, to now using a $3000 Canon 5D Mark II taking his passion and turning it into a business.
From a very young age, “my dad inspired me a little bit and also some of the landscape and Photographers like Ken Duncan in Australia,” as Phill stated. For this reason, he had made it as far as he did in his career.
Phill found his way into photography despite having already been in a job for 7 years as Phill state, “I had a unique opportunity in where I found myself being made redundant from a job that I was in for 7 years.”
After leaving that career he had no idea
what career choice to move on to so he put some money to the side. Phill used the money he put aside to start his own freelance photography business. Phill faces one of the biggest challenges any photographer faces and that was what camera gear to buy and was it going to be good enough for the type of photography he was going to do. Once he found his camera a Sigma body with Sigma lenses, he started to build up a client base which kept him going for 4 years surpassing his goal which Phill stated, “I had a goal of trying to last for 12 months and ended up for being in it for 5 years.” Which surprised him and his family and friends. After 3 years of using the Sigma camera and Sigma lenses, he wanted to upgrade his camera as Phill thought, “that it was a pretty hopeless camera when it came to low light. So it had its limitations.” From that point on after gaining enough money after 3 years, Phill invested in a Canon 5D Mark II with a 24-105mm lens which he then was able to produce higher quality images. After going into the fifth year of photography he started to find it difficult to gain a sustainable income to support his family of 6. Phill did try to peruse other types of photography so he didn’t have to rely on the one area of interest. Phill stated, “I didn’t enjoy wedding photography, I certainly through a lot of energy or time into that space, I found that quite stressful.”
The poem “Extended Development” by Sarah Kay explores the ways in which the art of photography has changed throughout time, yet still remains a highly important and influential hobby. More specifically, how photography is an important aspect in each member of the speaker’s family. By using allusions, characterization, and imagery, Kay explores how the art of photography has changed throughout time.
It was not until a trip to Japan with her mother after her sophomore year of studying painting at the San Francisco Art Institute that Annie Leibovitz discovered her interest in taking photographs. In 1970 Leibovitz went to the founding editor of Rolling Stone, Jann Wenner, who was impressed by Leibovitz’s work. Leibovitz’s first assignment from Wenner was to shoot John Lennon. Leibovitz’s black-and-white portrait of Lennon was the cover of the January 21, 1971 issue. Ironically, Leibovitz would be the last person to capture her first celebrity subject. Two years later she made history by being named Rolling Stone’s first female chief photographer. Leibovitz’s intimate photographs of celebrities had a big part in defining the Rolling Stone look. In 1983 Leibovitz joined Vanity Fair and was made the magazine’s first contributing photographer. At Vanity Fair she became known for her intensely lit, staged, and alluring portraits of celebrities. With a broader range of subjects available at Vanity Fair, Leibovitz’s photographs for Vanity Fair ranged from presidents to literary icons to t...
In pursuit of the education and experience that will lead us to our chosen profession, it is important, if not vital, that we carefully choose a path that will take us where we want to go. As we journey down this path, we will most likely encounter obstacles or opportunities that will take us in different directions, possibly leaving us at the end of the trail in a place quite different from that which we set out for. Like us, both Edward Zigler and Howard Gardner set out on career paths that ended in much different places than those they anticipated, both for very different reasons.
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John Fielder is a nationally famous photographer. For the last 40 years his photos are taken of Colorado while he is hiking and skiing. When he first visited Colorado at the age of 14 he said he felt like something or someone guided him their and he belonged in Colorado for the rest of his life. He is well known for creating his best selling books ever; Colorado 1870-2000. His latest work is the work of great outdoors Colorado for its 20th anniversary. When he was 23 he decided to start doing photography. He was amazed by other famous photographers work and tried to take photos just like them, but it didn’t really turn out how he wanted. Nevertheless he did not give up. On his days off he would go on hikes and he would take photos. He practiced for 8 years and decided to quit his job and just focus on photography. He loves nature so therefore he loves to take photos or nature. He has published 33 books in the past 30 years. He uses photography with a large format 4 x 5 film camera, he also carries 7 lenses and 30 sheet film holders and about 400 sheets of color film. In the winter he usually country skies around the mountains of Colorado. He skies 5 to 9 miles a day to get to hut to hut. In the summer he goes on river trips and usually river rafts. Sometimes he rafts on class 5 rapids. He has two daughters who love to go on trips with him although they do not take photos themselves.
Probably one of the most influential photographers of the 21st century, Sally Mann has been a great success in the world of photography of the last decade and a half. Mann is considered one of the best black and white female photographers in the field and was even named “America’s Best Photographer” by Time Magazine in 2001. Mann’s photographs are alluring and intriguing for viewers, offering a new interpretation on how others normally perceive the different aspects of life. It is important however, to first take a look at how Mann got started.
Practiced by thousands who shared no common tradition or training from the earliest days of taking photos, the first photographers were disciplined and united by no academy or guild, who considered their medium variously as a trade, a science, an art, or an entertainment, and who often were unaware of each other’s work. Exactly as it sounds photography means photo-graphing. The word photography comes from two Greek words, photo, or “light”, and graphos, or drawing and from the start of photography; the history of the aforementioned has been debated. The idea of taking pictures started some thirty-one thousand years ago when strikingly sophisticated images of bears, rhinoceroses, bison, horses and many other types of creators were painted on the walls of caves found in southern France. Former director of photography at New Yorks museum of modern art says that “The progress of photography has been more like the history of farming, with a continual stream of small discoveries leading to bigger ones, and in turn triggering more experiments, inventions, and applications while the daily work goes along uninterrupted.” ˡ
In Richard N. Bolles’ What Color is Your Parachute, the author seeks to guide and advise the reader in how to choose and gain a career. He goes beyond tips for the traditional job hunt, and attempts to reveal to the reader the importance and possibility of choosing a career that actually goes beyond paying the bills, but contributes to the happiness of the reader. Bolles encourages the reader to go beyond inspiration and pursue some practical self-reflection in order to realize the job that satisfies.
Overall, David LaChapelle is a wonderful photographer, and is obviously continuing to develop his skills as an artist.
My ties to Cartier-Bresson and his work start from the beginning of my career as a photographer. He was totally responsible for bringing photojournalism into the mainstream art world. Just for this accomplishment alone Cartier-Bresson has made it possible for many documentary photographers to work today.
Irving Penn has always strived for the best presentation of his work, he has become a master printer, revitalizing the platinum-palladium process as well as working with new techniques. The combination of innovative photography and meticulous printing has made Irving Penn one of the most significant photographers of the twentieth century.
William L. Morris III has been a nature photographer for 30 years. His passion for photography grew out of his love for nature. He thought himself to take photographs for capturing unique moments in the natural world. His first camera, a Canon AE-1, was purchased on board the USS Clark FFG-11 during his active duty years as an Engineman in the United States Navy.
In 1814 Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the Camera Obscura and developed a special type of paper which the images could be printed on. These photographs that Joseph printed didn’t last long and faded away after some time. But it wasn’t until 1826 when he invented permanent images/photographs. His photographs were made on a polished pewter plate covered with petroleum derivative which would then harden with the exposure to light. The unhardened parts would be washed away and the metal plate could be polished, which would then make a negative image and then that negative image could be printed on a piece of paper or other material. Later on other inks and types of chemicals that could be used to print pictures more efficiently were developed. Later on Cameras became more popular as people started to want self-portraits of themselves or family portraits. It became a major business and would become a great success. But one of the biggest changes came when Kodak invented the first “Point and Shoot Cameras”, which allowed people to take a picture immediately and have it published later on. This gave photographers a greater opportunity to take better pictures as...
Photography was not invented by one person alone but by many. There are several advancements that lead to the first photograph and they started far back in history when the Greek philosophers were still alive (Goldberg, 1991). These philosophers described a theory that showed the principles of the camera. Another discovery made in 1727 by Johann Heinrich Schulze showed that silver nitrate darkened when it’s exposed to light (Rosenblum, 2010). Together these two advancements lead to the first photographic image in 1814 by Joseph Niepce, however the photograph faded in hours and could not be preserved. Twenty three years Louis Daguerre took a photog...
War. His most famous picture was a snapshot of a courageous man in the act of