APJONES

Past Photos The Beginning

Motion Capturing Past and Future

Depth Capturing some or everything

Perspective of 12 Another Point of View

Up Close & Personal Capturing Detail

Portraits A Photograph to Remember

Bannack Best Ghost Town

Bannack Portrait Citizens of Bannack

Typography Conveying A New Meaning

Levitation Rising to the Occasion

CONTENTSPhotographs taken before learning about photography

Captured motion, both frozen and blurred

Depth. Shallow and deep

Different angles and vantage points.

Macro Photography

Portraiture: capturing people and personality.

Fine-art photography taken at Bannack Ghost Town in Montana

Fine-art Portraiture

Composition of typography and photography

Levitation photography

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3 13

5 15

7 17

9 19

PAST PHOTOS

Anyone can take photographs. There

are so many tools to a person’s disposal in

our day in age to take great photographs.

Before I began digital photography I

used a simple point-and-shoot camera.

The kind of camera you could easily buy

at a Costco or Walmart.

I felt my photography was amazing.

Little did I know how limited my

photography was. Not solely because

of my equipment, but because of my

knowledge of the vital principles of

photography. Principles such as exposure,

depth of field, lighting, composition, etc.

Once I began to learn about these

principles, my photography leapt beyond

bounds. See for yourself. Compare my

past to my present photography.

MOTION

Motion is a style of photography that enables you to capture time and movement. Knowing how to

use shutter speed is critical in capturing the correct shot of motion.

For a freeze motion capture, a high shutter speed is required to capture the subject moving and to

preserve the focus of the object in motion. Basically, you “freeze” the subject and time.

For a blur motion capture, a slow shutter speed is needed. A slower shutter speed results in the

camera lens being open for a longer period of time. As the camera tries to capture the subject in motion

over this period of time, the subject appears blurred as the lens lets in more light. In this method, you

capture time as it passes.

DEPTH

PERSPECTIVE OF 12

UP CLOSE & PERSONAL

Macro Photography enables a photographer to capture detail in

amazing focus. This requires the right kind of tools and lighting.

To capture pristine macro photographs one needs a macro tube

or macro lens for a camera. Once the equipment is properly attached,

you need to approach the subject. This is where “Up Close & Personal”

comes into play. The photographer must get extremely close to the

subject after having increased his focal length to the maximum.

Once in position the photographer must adjust the focus manually

to capture what detail is desired. Adjustment of the exposure manipulates

whether the foreground or background is in focus. Lighting can be tricky.

As such, it’s important to have an LED light or another light source to

illuminate detail that is dark and not visible to the eye.

PORTRAITS

Taking portraitures is one of my favorite

aspects of photography. Proper exposure, shutter

speed, and positioning of the camera and subject

yield the greatest fruits of portraiture.

In the moment the photo is taken, a moment

of life is captured. I feel portraiture preserves the

memory of person. As long as that photograph

lasts, you hold in your hands or hang in your home

the memory of that person.

That’s the beauty of portraiture. It’s capturing

life in the moment.

Bannack Best

BANNACK PORTRAITS

TYPOGRAPHY

Typography and photography is a powerful combination.

Photography can easily convey emotion. When combined with

typography a photographer can convey a greater message, even a

hidden one that is not easily seen by the eye.

By empowering photography with typography I share

messages that I learn from observing the world around me.

Whether it’s an ordinary object or a person standing beside a

mountain these moments captured with a camera and coupled with

typography make a photograph a special message.

LEVITATION

Levitiation photography is a mind blowing result of simple steps. That’s

what made me want to do it when I first saw it.

What is even more mind-blowing about levitation photography is how

easy it is to create.

Would you believe me if I told you that all I used to create this photo

was a stool, my camera, a tripod, and Adobe Photoshop?

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Every shot in photography is meaningful, to the viewer and especially to me. My

photography means more than capturing the norm or typical shot. It means capturing

the memory and personality of a person through portraiture, the tiny details in macro

photography, tricking the mind in levitation photography, and seeing a subject from all

different angles in perspective photography. I make you and what you want captured

meaningful and extraordinary.

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