Getting It Right -Wednesday, November 17, 2004 -7:08 pm-
I've realized that leaving OSU and, eventually, coming to work at McAlister has been a bad thing for me. When I was at OSU, I was, at least occasionally, exposed to works of beauty. By this I mean art, or something like it, that was truly beautiful. Photographs, paintings, whatever. Mainly photography because that's what I was doing. Leaving OSU, I saw only circuits at DeVry. Coming to McAlister, I am awash in photographic mediocrity. The photos of just random people don't matter to me at all, but looking at the work of people who make their living through photography is slowly killing the part of me that loves beauty. I didn't realize this until a wedding photographer by the name of Roland Millington came in to have us run some prints. I used to work for Roland, back in '99 and '00. I did his behind the scenes work, cataloging negatives, filling print orders, etc. Then, I was impressed with how much he charged people. Now, I'm impressed with his photography. Roland is the only one I've seen in quite a while who uses light. I mean really uses light. Uses it so that, even in the print, the light is still moving, wrapping around the subject, shining out of the frame. This is what I'm trying for when I shoot, what stops me in my tracks when I'm walking around. Honestly, Roland doesn't hit much more often that I did when I was shooting all the time, but at least he's trying. At least I was trying. Just looking at his prints of a cake, a couple, a bouquet make me hurt inside, makes me want to get the hell out of here and move on to something that matters. Too often in the store, one of the pros comes in and is talking about a new lens, camera body, workflow, or lab and I think about the work of theirs that I have seen. No equipment can save them.
It's the light, dumbass
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