Volume: 2 Issue: 8

Monday February 8th, 2010

Featured Artist: Jeff Clinedinst I am a native of the valley currently living in Edinburg, Virginia. My formal education, and current career, is in engineering. I began teaching myself photography and digital imaging about three years ago. My interest in fishing and hiking often placed me in locations that I wanted to document, but could not capture the scenes as I visualized them with the small automatic camera I was carrying. I bought an older model SLR, and through extensive reading and experimentation, I learned the basics of exposure and composition, and quickly learned what the camera and the film inside are capable of. I was drawn to photography by the ability to capture and compose images in a manner that the eyes cannot, whether by exposure, perspective, or digital compositing. The work of artists such as Jerry Uelsmann and John Paul Caponigro helped lure me into this hobby. The technical and scientific aspects of photography are also appealing to me... Jeff's full profile >>

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