micpowell

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Currently living in Manhattan’s Eastside I am origionally from New Haven Connecticut and have studied Art and photography most of my life. I am also interested in Chancery & Calligraphy and Iaido which is a Japanese form of Swordsmanship. I am reluctantly still singe and enjoy hiking both urban and rural, asian & italian foods and various kinds of music. I am also a Buddhist and refuse to act my age.

Technically all photographs taken prior to this year were works using film cameras, notably a Bronica Zenza and an Olympus OM-1. Those examples were Uploaded where my editing was confined to Picnic & Microsoft Office Picture Manager and a common use pc at work.

Currently I am using iPhoto on a Mac Leapord 10.5-7 for editing only, and shoot exclusively with a Canon 5D Mark II, mounted with either a fixed mount 24mm wide-angle or a 70-300mm DS.

I mention the above not to advertise or compare but because I have noted a distinct difference in the Zoned Gradations of the Apple verses PC and expect those who view my examples will find the images one Zone lower than intended when comparing PC quality. I don’t mean to equivocate but it’s clear to me that the Mac has a wider zone spectrum.

Note also I do not make HD images, as I think my current system has an effective contrast graduation range and I don’t feel inclined to lean towards that painted pastel imitation,not that I have not seen or complemented some fine example of that genre. To each his own style, so I hope you can enjoy what I have offered.

At long last I do not perofess to have mastered the complete process of editing, and in fact if I had, one should think it time for me to move on and find something more challenging. A lesson I have learned here is something I heard from Ansel Adams and the f64 School. To them the idea was to concentrate ones active years on exclusively shooting without fretting too much over editing. Then once retired from the fieldwork, concentrate to acheive a final edit.

I have come to realise the profound, albeit ideal implications of this process. That is to say, shooting is the process of gathering information, and while printing or editing aim at the desimination, it actually is the technical phase of refining and restricting to that short and turse, direct and to the point conclusion. Ergo they are converse mind sets, in discovering the communicative process of visual transmissions.