About
Buy Securely on line using PAYPAL or of line paying by cash or cheque Welcome to my web site of Fine Art Photography. Photography allows me to get totally immersed within my surroundings.There will always be photographic challenges. I first picked up a camera at the age of fifteen it was a Russian Zorkie Four Rangefinder (very cheap but it did the job). Every moment of my spare time was spent either taking photographs or developing and printing my latest creation in the blacked out family bathroom (much to my parent’s annoyance). For the next five years I learnt everything I could about the art of photography. By the time I was twenty-one I had my own photographic studio together with a close friend Nick, in the town of Sandwich, Kent. This is where I honed my craft, taking photographs of anything from family portraits and studio shots for local businesses to action shots of power boats for the local boatyards, using every type of camera from a Nikon SLR to the larger format Hasselblad and Mamiya cameras and the even larger Sinar plate cameras. After a few years I felt I needed a change and moved back to London where I worked for several years in the photographic department of a large international company. This took me overseas working in Saudi Arabia where I taught the local employees darkroom skills and techniques. Several years later I wanted to move on and learn even more about the world of photography within the advertising industry. I became a Studio Manager, looking after the needs of the clients, whether it was photographic studio work or supplying photographic retouching to the finished photograph/transparency. In 1986 my wife and I and our two small children moved back to the North of England where I moved totally away from the photographic industry. However, five years ago I was given a digital camera as a gift and armed with this new technology my passion for photography was reborn and all the knowledge I gained in those former years is once again being put to good use. As you can see from my work, I love to bring out the best in my images by digitally enhancing them by adjusting the hue and saturation and contrast levels etc. or even adding a special effect. This is all done on my computer now instead of using an enlarger and processing techniques as I did before in that little blacked-out room. A whole new range of different skills are required to achieve outstanding results, allowing me to turn my images into true works of art. However, even with the finest camera ever produced and the most advanced software on the market at your disposal, the most important element will always be in having the ability, inspiration and the foresight to create that initial image. Dave Prince 2005 www.daveprincephotography.com |