rldedinsky
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Hi Ya'll,
My name is Rhonda and I am so glad to happen upon this site!
My father, whom departed this world in February, was a photographer and I developed my love of photography through him. Now that he has departed I feel almost as if it is my mission to carry on with his work so to speak.
I had been self taught until recently when I took Photo 101 at Green River this past fall using my Dad's old Minolta XE7, what a beast that thing is and I LOVE it. I also fell in love with the darkroom. I could spend days in there. I have EVERYTHING to set mine up except the materials to actually make the room. Hopefully soon though.
I have switched over to digital and I am using a Nikon D80 which I love. I am finding myself becoming a little lazier and I have no idea how to use Photoshop so I get pretty frustrated sometimes, lol.
I was hired last May for my first "paying" job. It was the grand opening of a business called NSO (never sold out) entertainment and I got to shoot Stephanie Pratt of the Hills, Amon Gordon of the Philadelphia Eagles, Justin Forsett of the Seahawks, and Jamar Adams of the Seahawks. It was so much fun, I was terribly nervous but everything turned out pretty much perfect.
I also entered Art/Not Terminals Annual Photo Show and Contest and I actually won first place and they can still be seen there until July 2nd. I really did not expect it. They are a series of three prints, some of my first, and you can see where my camera had light bleed and dust on the negative, very amateurish to say the least. But they were the originals, and my dad actually got to hold them and see them before he passed, so those were the ones that were going. I was terrified that some snobby critic was just going to pick them apart, all I could see were the flaws. It was so nice to know that what others saw was the photos themselves. I'm posting them here, if anyone would like to give constructive criticism please feel free.
I feel like I sound like a braggart but I'm really not. I haven't shown too much of my work to people other than family members so I guess I just wanted to take a little leap and see what people really thought.
So, I look forward to learning and meeting people with the same love of photography that I have, and who knows, maybe I can help someone else out!
The clock is the first in the series, then my father, then my step-mother. I don't know what happened to the sizes, lol....they really are the same size. See I need to learn some things!
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My name is Rhonda and I am so glad to happen upon this site!
My father, whom departed this world in February, was a photographer and I developed my love of photography through him. Now that he has departed I feel almost as if it is my mission to carry on with his work so to speak.
I had been self taught until recently when I took Photo 101 at Green River this past fall using my Dad's old Minolta XE7, what a beast that thing is and I LOVE it. I also fell in love with the darkroom. I could spend days in there. I have EVERYTHING to set mine up except the materials to actually make the room. Hopefully soon though.
I have switched over to digital and I am using a Nikon D80 which I love. I am finding myself becoming a little lazier and I have no idea how to use Photoshop so I get pretty frustrated sometimes, lol.
I was hired last May for my first "paying" job. It was the grand opening of a business called NSO (never sold out) entertainment and I got to shoot Stephanie Pratt of the Hills, Amon Gordon of the Philadelphia Eagles, Justin Forsett of the Seahawks, and Jamar Adams of the Seahawks. It was so much fun, I was terribly nervous but everything turned out pretty much perfect.
I also entered Art/Not Terminals Annual Photo Show and Contest and I actually won first place and they can still be seen there until July 2nd. I really did not expect it. They are a series of three prints, some of my first, and you can see where my camera had light bleed and dust on the negative, very amateurish to say the least. But they were the originals, and my dad actually got to hold them and see them before he passed, so those were the ones that were going. I was terrified that some snobby critic was just going to pick them apart, all I could see were the flaws. It was so nice to know that what others saw was the photos themselves. I'm posting them here, if anyone would like to give constructive criticism please feel free.
I feel like I sound like a braggart but I'm really not. I haven't shown too much of my work to people other than family members so I guess I just wanted to take a little leap and see what people really thought.
So, I look forward to learning and meeting people with the same love of photography that I have, and who knows, maybe I can help someone else out!
The clock is the first in the series, then my father, then my step-mother. I don't know what happened to the sizes, lol....they really are the same size. See I need to learn some things!
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