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The craft is the art. The medium defines the tool we use.
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I've worked in television production and photography for more than 40 years, starting in New York and eventually working in California, Indiana, and Florida. My experience includes camera work, editing, producing, directing, and managing television operations.
I grew up on Long Island and studied television production at the Center for the Media Arts in New York City. Over the years, I've worked for television stations, production companies, and independent clients, gaining experience in both the creative and operational sides of the business.
I now live on Florida's Space Coast, where I spend much of my time photographing nature, wildlife, landscapes, and the night sky. I also enjoy working with computers, 3D modeling and printing, and exploring new technologies.
My interests extend beyond photography. I'm a certified scuba divemaster, welder, and range safety officer. I've always enjoyed working with my hands, understanding how things operate, and learning skills that have little to do with one another.
This website is a place to share my photography, projects, observations, and whatever else happens to catch my attention. There's no particular theme beyond the things I find interesting.
The craft is the art. The medium defines the tools we used to get to where we are.
Film is no longer technologically required to make a movie. Everything film is required to accomplish in the production of a motion picture can now be accomplished digitally. Digital systems can capture moving images, reproduce color and tonal relationships, edit, manipulate, composite, duplicate, archive, distribute, project, and exhibit the finished work. Even visual characteristics historically associated with film, such as grain, halation, color response, contrast, and other aspects of a particular film appearance, can be digitally modeled or emulated when a creator wants them.
What digital does not reproduce is the chemistry itself, because chemistry is the mechanism by which photographic film creates its image. Digital reaches the image through an entirely different physical process: electronic sensing, signal processing, numerical representation, computation, and digital storage.
That distinction is the whole point.
Digital does not need silver halides, emulsion, chemical development, perforated stock, mechanical film transport, or a laboratory to accomplish the job film once performed. The photochemical process remains unique to film, but the process itself is no longer required to make the movie.
So if someone chooses photographic film today, they are choosing a particular process, not gaining access to some essential moviemaking capability unavailable digitally. Any claim that the choice provides additional artistic, aesthetic, prestige, or commercial value is a separate claim that must be demonstrated rather than assumed simply because the medium is film.
Digital didn't need to become film. It made film unnecessary to make the movie.
Film is film. Digital video is digital video. They reach the finished image through different technologies.
The movie is the work. The medium tells the story of how we got there.
Educate, don't mimic. ✌️❤️
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