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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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Nikon D300 & SB-800 Speedlight Flash Diffusion Test
On camera flash photography has always challenged me. I learned photography, in West Germany during the early ‘70s, using natural light only, black and white film and developed my own prints. My first experience, in the early ‘80s, with a flash gun was a reunion of flight school classmates and our families. We paraded the kids through the living room, onesies, twosies, you know the drill, and I took whole family photos too. The garish, over exposed pictures with that damn hard edged shadow (like the top center picture) was embarrassing when the color prints arrived. Who needs a flash? Not a REAL photographer anyway; so, back to natural light for more than 2 decades.
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Dav Miller
This was a fun photograph. Dav was all about getting ‘good’ lifestyle shots for his modeling portfolio. As we worked through the session he was getting tired; as I was encouraging him to hang in there, I mentioned he might need to get pumped up for the last 30 minutes to get his ‘game face’ shots.
He wanted a yelling picture. The first two attempts weren’t working for me. He wasn’t actually yelling but faking it. I told him to come at me yelling for all he was worth.
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West Germany in the early 1970s
I was stationed at Dolan Barracks in Schwäbisch Hall, West Germany with the US Army. This is where my interest in photography began.
Photos scanned from self developed prints made during the time they were taken. Pentex Spotmatic and Spotmatic F.
Thank you Herr Ritter.
August 2008:
One thing about this WordPress blogging software; it logs the search terms people used to find my blog. I have been amazed by the number of searches for Dolan Barracks and/or Schwäbisch Hall. There have been a lot of us.
So, if you were stationed there; how about leaving a comment with the dates and unit?
Added: John Hill was kind enough to send along a few of his photographs from his time at Schwab Hall; thanks John.
The construction of an air force base by the Germans at Hessental was started in 1934. During the war it was garrisoned with bomber and night fighter squadrons. Dolan Barracks at Schwäbisch Hall was closed by the US Army on 30 September 1993.
If you were stationed at Dolan Barracks and would like to contribute please contact me.
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Three Girls: bare butt and foot tattoos
Three Girls: Tattoos
Originally uploaded by RKD Photography
When I took this shot I thought it was cute. I never expected it to be the image with the most views in my Flickr stream. To date after only just over 2 months on Flickr it has nearly 3700 views.
The photo session itself was supposed to be with just two models; but they brought a friend. The three long time friends enjoyed the attention, the modeling and each other all during the shoot.
Check out the entire set.