About Me
My job as your photographer is to do more than just put a face to the name. I bring experience, professionalism, confidence, and a relaxed persona that produces photographs that instill a sense of trust and confidence in a potential client or customer. When you don’t do that, you will fail to get everything you can out of a brochure, website, or press release. The picture is critical.
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but you rarely hear about the reactions to a poor quality photograph. Professional photography when presenting yourself or company to the public is a necessity.
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The Transformation
I have a wife and 5 kids, 4 of them girls. There are many, many reasons I am glad to be male. One of those, top of the list, reasons is make-up; selection, purchase, application and maintenance of all things make-up. Don’t get me wrong, I fully appreciate the effort required and result of properly applied and the beautiful results (deceitful on some level) of cosmetics.
The Implements of Beauty
I have photographed a few females in my time as a photographer. As at home, I would only venture into and out of the room where the makeup artist makes magic happens – normally to inquire either “Are you ready yet?” or “How much longer?” or ” Have you seen my camera?” I never paid much attention to the details of the process, only the result as presented in the portrait session. Always impressed by the transformation from the girl next door to the wonderful creature standing in front of me.
Last weekend I had the opportunity to work with the wonderfully talented Jane Victoria Burch Professional Make-Up Artist and the Splice Girl Crystal (The Only Mufinhead). Jane and I are collaborating on an instructional presentation geared toward photographers and new models about makeup for portfolio building. We spent several hours in studio documenting the process from natural (no makeup) to natural looking (minimal makeup) through to glamour shoot ready.
Making the magic happen
It was, I must say, a very interesting experience. I watched, I shot, I asked questions. I won’t try to convince anyone that I followed many of the explanations; I was very much transfixed by the process. Jane and Crystal seemed to be in sync with each other, they had worked together before our studio set. I am no more ready to give up being male mind you, but I have a new found respect for the whole beauty makeup thing our women go through to meet our cultural definition of beauty.
The Transformation
If you ever have the chance to spent an entire makeup session watching the transformation that I, for the most part, took for granted; I highly recommend it. It’ll be an hour well spent.
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About Me
Then and now: the ravages of time.
My interest and education in photography began in 1972 when I was stationed at Dolan Barracks
in Schwäbisch Hall, West Germany with the US Army as an Air Traffic Controller.
“Hey look a castle, I should take a picture.”
Schloss Colmberg: Schwäbisch Hall, West Germany 1973
My first SLRs were a Pentex Spotmatic and Spotmatic F.
My job as your photographer is to do more than just put a face to the name. I bring experience, professionalism, confidence, and a relaxed persona that produces photographs that instill a sense of trust and confidence in a potential client or customer. When you don’t do that, you will fail to get everything you can out of a brochure, website, or press release. The picture is critical. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but you rarely hear about the reactions to a poor quality photograph. Professional photography when presenting yourself or company to the public is a necessity.
Suggestions & Contribution:
I’m open to any suggestions and contribution (ie. guest blogging). If you have ideas that would to share with me, please contact me or send me a mention on Twitter @rkd-photography.
More here as I get time.
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Flash Above The Rest – Canon Speedlite 430EX
Canon has been at this for a long, long time and they realize what it is their customers want, need and expect from them as one of the most well known camera purveyors in existence today.
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The iPad and photography: Tool, toy or prop?
I have found the iPad to be much more useful than I had expected in my photography work. I use several Photo apps now at most every session.
So, for you is the iPad use in your photography a tool, toy or prop?
Come join the Flickr group and show your stuff: Flicker iPad and Photography Group
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