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Photography back in my life!
Have you transitioned to digital photography yet? Please post your experiences in detail. I mean the high-end professional/semi-pro quality, not the amateur and "Snap-shot" stuff. I'm going to bring www.hawkestudios.com up to date. it's been sitting idle and out of date and unfinished far too long. Years ago, in the early 90's I was a professional photography for a number of modeling agencies and my own freelance work and my own studio at one point too. I shot for almost all of the modeling agencies in Northern Utah. I shot portfolios for talent (models, actors, musicians, bands, events, etc.) and catalogs, and advertising. Had blast going to concerts free, shooting photo and video and editing videos. Enjoyed shooting album covers, flyers, etc. Did my own creative "Artistic" work that was energectically inspirec by waking up in the middle up the night with artistic "visions" and calling models and friends in the wee hours asking them to pose. I also worked on a small movie project I called AI (this is back in 91-93 way before Spielberg's Ai) and had 14 scenes written, and shot several of those scenes. I miss it all so very much but....
Marriage and our first son on the way put it all on hold.
A: I wanted to provide a lucrative and stable income for my family to bo
B: My wife hated me shooting female models
C: Much of my equipment had been stolen from me over the years, and what I had left was beat up
I now have decent equipment.
I have some time to my life at last, instead of all work.
I need to update my photo site significantly, it's very out of date.
I'll be moving the commercial photography to my old www.hawkestudios.com website, but keep all the hobby and personal photography here.
I'm much more diversified in what I shoot now.
Before it was mostly commercial work for models and talent. Though I started with and have always photographed children though not in the boring "School photos" style, but much more fun "talent portfolio" style.
Now I shoot wilderness, trips, wildlife, landscape, vehicles, martial arts, abstract and contemporary art, and more.
I'm working on setting up all my darkroom equipment in the coming days.
I have some digital equipment but alas I'm far from switched to digital yet. I think the technology is finally "there" as far as quality and ease of use. I do NOT think it's there archivally yet (compared to black and white archival) for black and white, but it is for color and is excellent for any commercial work. I just can't yet buy the camera I need to compare to my Nikon F5. I'll probably go with a Nikon digital, like the D100 or it's upcoming decendents, so I can use my existing Nikon and lighting equipment.
Anyone been switching to digital? What have you used?
What are your praises and criticisms?
I will be uploading a lot of my work soon, while I still have my T1 running. Over the satellite connection will be too slow to upload them to the site.
Ciao.
-Hawke
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