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My images are available in print form or as jpg files.
Personal Use:
JPG Files purchased for personal use may be reproduced for your personal use only, to hang in your home, to print and give to friends, for personal cards, invitations, etc. You may not give the jpg file to any other individual, you may not have the image published or posted online, or sell the file or image in any form. Any other use of the file will be considered copyright infringement.
Commercial Use:
Files purchased for commercial use may be posted on websites or incorporated into web designs. They may also be reprinted in publicatons, for display, or used in advertisements a maximum of two times. Neither the files or the printed image may be sold or transferred to any other business or individual.
Details or questions about the purchase of digital files may be sent to me directly or via the "ask question" function on Yssy. Direct email is: mike@digitalartsphotography.com
Now on to my Biography
My galleries here on Yessy are kind of a "hobby within a profession." I am one of those professional photographers who has found that the real business of photography is in weddings, portraits, business photography, and occasional work for publications. I love shooting weddings and I love working with people to capture portaits that make them happy. That's most of what I do. I just love taking pictures and I constantly strive to improve my abilities. Photography is one of those things in which the more experience that you gather the more you realize how much you still have to learn.
My introduction to professional photography took place in the early 1970's in Philadelphia. Photography was an area of study in college and I worked alongside a pro for several months as his assistant; shooting weddings, shooting products for catalogues, and helping out with anything that involved camera work. I slowly acquired all of my own professional gear and was then hired as a wedding photographer by the same studio where I had worked as an assistant.
I also spent a lot of time during that tumultuous era doing street photography; photographing people, events, and faces, on the streets of Philadelphia. Photography was what I loved and it looked like a photo career was in my future.
Then there was a day of devastation. I returned home one night and found that my apartment had been burglarized. My photo bags were gone, along with cameras, lenses, and lights. I had no insurance coverage. My studio job required that I provide my own photo gear so I was also out of work. There was simply no way to quickly replace what was gone. So I took other non-photo jobs and then drifted away from photography altogether.
Then, at the start of the digital age, in the early 90's, I picked up a digital camera. I was almost instantly back where I had left off and I loved the feeling of having a camera in my hand once again!
I found that photography was both the same as it always was and also very different. Photography is still all about light, all about capturing the right moment, all about color or the lack of it, all about using focus and composition to direct the eye of the viewer, and all about displaying something in a unique and exciting way. None of that has changed.
And the darkroom has always been, and still is, and important part of serious photography. The difference is that the darkroom is now a computer. The merging of photography and computer technology fascinated me from the start and any modern photographer needs to be as comfortable with imaging software and digital files as he or she is with the settings on the camera itself.
My style now is a blend of classic photography and photo-journalism. I am the kind of photographer whose eye is constantly in search of a subject, a special scene, or an interesting perspective on events.
I also enjoy experimentation and a view of that can be seen here in my Yessee galleries.
There is no single style that works best in all settings. So I enjoy taking the time with my clients to discuss what they want and I direct my photography differently for each and every project to achieve the desired results.
In the final analysis the photographer is still far more important than the camera! |
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