Who woulda thunk it? I’m not sure exactly where photographer Brian Rondeau picked up this electric orange creature, but with the right background and lighting it is a near-translucent beauty! It just goes to show that you can photograph anything and make it art, if you do it well.
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I want to introduce you to a photographer whom I admire greatly, both as a photographer and a person: Brian Rondeau. I’ll be honest: I know him in “real life,” but I feel even if I didn’t I would still be stunned by the photographs he creates on his digital SLR (Canon EOS 20D). They are a lesson in capturing the vibrant colors of the world and using the geometry of nature to draw your eyes through the picture. His photos just pop!
Someday, he has promised, he will give me a lesson in how to use all of his nifty photog gadgets (filters, EF-S 17-55 f/2.8 IS USM lens, etc). Until then, I will just admire his photos, and share them with you, in the hope of moving him beyond “amateur” and into “professional.” I certainly think he is capable, don’t you?
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In college, I took a Photography course that I lost hours of my life to. It wasn’t so much the taking of the pictures as the developing of them. In the dark room, my headphones on and playing soulful music (think Joni Mitchell or Simon & Garfunkl), six hours or more could pass before I realized I was parched and starving.
And probably high from chemical fumes. They do say that you’re supposed to take a breather every hour or so. Oops.
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I aim to make this blog a place for amateur photographers to go to support each other, to learn from each other, and to perhaps commiserate together when a great idea doesn’t pan out. Don’t pretend it doesn’t happen to you, because we all know you’d be lying. You envision the perfect photograph in your head, with the perfect lighting and angle and depth of field, and then when you see it on paper . . .
Eh. Whatever. No soul-stirring going on there.
You know exactly what I mean, don’t you?
I’ll go first.
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