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Guidenet

Guidenet

Lives in United States Orlando, US, FL, United States
Works as a Retired Corporate Photographer
Has a website at http://faithartsvillage.com/
Joined on Sep 27, 2007
About me:

I'm a 64 year old retired corporate photographer who has also been a software engineer. My academia is largely based on Vision and my dissertation was on Fluids. Much of my post work was involved in research mostly in the realm of massively parallel systems like BSP. I have a small studio and gallery which I enjoy on occasion. My specialty is bird photography, and I've been lucky to have had a few attempts published over the years. For the past twenty years, I worked for a large Fortune 500 company as their in-house photographer for the communications, publicity and care departments. I’ve also done their corporate meetings and events. As the company owns several television stations, making the opportunities endless.
I had to retire because I suffered a massive right side stroke in the spring of 2013. My small portrait studio and gallery are doing better than ever.
I have a daughter who is a successful Wedding Photographer. As I’ve embraced retirement, I've taken more and more shooting contracts, but only those I enjoy like the local little league baseball teams. I occasionally act as a cruise photographer for some of the cruise lines here in Florida when requested by organizations.
I also spend more and more time teaching basic photography for several resources locally as well as out of my studio located at FAVO (Faith-based Art Village of Orlando). As well as Photography, I am also a Water Color and Acrylic painter and enjoy recreating some of my favorite work in those mediums. Learning how to create art is a lifelong passion.
I'm seriously passionate about people learning exposure and the Zone System of Photography before considering themselves sufficiently astute in this craft. I’ve held several Zone System Workshops over the years as well as one Cruise based workshop. I’m also passionate about Ansel Adams’ ideas about pre-visualization. Pressing the shutter button and the camera are just one small part of the image creation process.
I started at eight years old in 1959 when my dad and I built a darkroom, him more than me. My father taught me the Zone System at a very young age. I continued as a youthful photographer, buying glass with lawn mowing money through my high school and then into college with odd jobs. I paid most of my tuition as an undergraduate shooting weddings and baby pictures as well as for the university newspaper. Many of those years I shot 4x5, 5x7 and 8x10 field cameras and sheet film. In small format, I shot Pentax until 1968 when I switched to Nikon, needing a better more professional system tool. I still shoot Nikon today as well as Nikkor lenses for some of my large format gear. I also mostly shoot digital but still maintain a darkroom for up to 5x7 format. 8x10 is stored in the attic and is only black and white. I even have a Nikkor enlarging lens. Over the years, I believe Nikon has been instrumental in the creation of truly great glass.

Guidenet's recent activity

  • LOL Just my preference. I just don't care for adapters. They are just another device to get in the way between me and my tools is the way I look at it. For lots of people, one of the pleasures of ...
  • As others have said, the reason this isn't in EXIF and therefore not on the photo here is that the mode is not important as long as the photographer got to the exposure setting he/she wanted. I'm ...
  • I'm hoping he/she comes back and responds so we can see if we were correct in our assumptions.
  • I think at the price range you're looking, you won't find a whole lot of difference between Nikon and Canon, quite honestly. They both have a huge system to be able to provide choice no matter ...
  • When looking at a system camera, considering the entire system can be pretty important. That's what is nice about Canon or Nikon. There's going to be accessories and lenses for most any aspiration ...
  • Hey. I agree except maybe one thing and this is just my guess over the years. I adjust the lens to minimum focus instead of infinity. The difference is not going to be much in terms of macro or ...
  • It's the website of a typical new wedding photographer. I'm not sure about a style. I looks to be fairly tame to me.
  • No, the camera doesn't need to be set to something. My guess is that you're not close enough to the subject. You probably need a tripod as well. Those add-on type macro lenses only focus from ...
  • For starters, the D5100 and that particular Tamron 17-50 f/2.8 are both capable of producing very sharp, high quality pictures, if you do your part. In fact, that lens without VC has a reputation ...
  • Replied in Ok......
    It's the "i" and I suppose it means Steve Jobs invented it. I've got one on my phone. ;-)
  • My friend. It's just something to get used to. No big deal. There are a lot of professional basketball shooters who use the back button as well as many bird photographers. As long as the buttons ...
  • Rather than being offended and carrying on, why not think a little about it? The D5300 is a pretty new camera and fairly cheap. If you needed the money, you probably still do, so look for ...
  • Replied in Yes
    Thanks Gerry. You're totally right. Also, the P900 can't do RAW which could make an IQ difference by itself, but that's besides the point. I tend not to answer JoePhoto/Phototeach2 (or whatever ...
  • I'm not sure why there's a problem. It's just two different buttons to do the same thing. If you are using back button and the subject moves, use it again.
  • You're all over the place it seems. You had a new Nikon D5300 and a pair of lenses and sold them for some reason only you know. Now you're confused as to what lenses you need for some other camera ...
  • I really like the Canon line here. I have an excellent Canon G1X but my old and stolen S95 did a great job. Today, I'd get the newer version of that camera, the S120 might be a great choice. It's ...
  • I'd stay far away from black and white for now. It might be something to aspire to in the future, but: (1) black and white isn't artsy (2) black and white won't save a ...
  • Along with learning editing, think about the view. You took that standing up, I assume. Might it have been better with the lens at headlight level or maybe from above. Learn to work the scene. I'm ...
  • Replied in One last thing
    then, I'll duck out. These type arguments aren't good for man or beast. When using a FF camera in crop mode or using a crop camera, the crop is dead center. That may or may not be the best ...
  • Replied in Yes
    Basically, we agree then. :-) DX is a good and fun budget alternative as long as this idea of "reach" is left out. I agree. I even like putting more pixels on the target sometimes. It can be quite ...
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