Scott Haefner is this week’s Featured Friday Photographer.
I am interested in many genres of photography, but the theme that emerges in almost all of my more recent work is an attempt to create unique and non-cliché imagery.
For instance, while I do shoot “typical” landscapes, I usually shoot them at night under the full moon. I also use a technique called light painting to sculpt the light in front of my camera, lending more creative control. I use flashlights and off-camera flash as well as colored theatrical gels for dramatic effect. I often shoot in places that most people never experience first-hand: abandoned hospitals and military bases, ghost towns, and other forgotten relics of our past.
Another approach I use is attaching my light-weight Nikon D60 DSLR to a large kite to obtain unique vantage points. I suspend my camera anywhere from a few feet to several hundred feet above the ground, occupying the space between a step ladder and a small plane flight. Using a wide angle lens at relatively low heights enables me to capture images from a different perspective than most of us are accustomed to, even in the age of ubiquitous access to aerial iamgery in Google Earth, et al. I also have a 30-foot carbon fiber fishing pole to which I attach my compact, Sigma DP1 for times when the wind is not cooperative.
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by Kent Weakley
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