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Gallery News
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photo by Kevin Connolly
The exhibit "20th Anniversary of the
Father and Son book publication," was a great success. We had a good turn out for First Friday and visitors throughout the month came to see the show.
In the month of July the gallery will exhibit Kevin Connolly's " Rolling Exhibition". Mr. Connolly, a graduate of the MSU Film & Photography School, will exhibit his portraits of people around the world staring at him. Mr. Connolly, born without legs, traveled throughout the world on a skateboard photographing people staring at him. The show will be open to the public on First Friday in July, 3 at 5:30 and go till 8.
Hope to see you there.
This show was sponsored by
the Montana VSA.
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Current Assignments:
 July is turning out to be a busy Month.
The months starts off with a bang with the Kevin Connelly opening on First Friday. Then i travel to Idaho for a week long photo assignment. Coming back to a Cover and photo essay on Axmen for the Magazine Hearth & Home. In addition I have been booked by Hutton Fine Bullders to photograph one of their projects in Geoge Town Lake. I am happy to say the article for Photo Techniques magazine is written and will be appearing in their September issue. I will keep you paosted. Fianlly, to raise money for the Children's Museum of Missoula, Montana I am donating a Family Portrait Session to the lucky winner of the raffle. |
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Dear Friends
 Welcome to my third newsletter. As you can tell I am still experimenting with the style. This is my favorite thus far.
I am happy to say the response from my from the last two newsletters has been very positive.. According to my stats 98% of you want to stay on the list, 40% open the newsletter and 27% click on the links to find out more.
Sincerely, Steven
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Summer Photo Tips
Take My Camera, Please!!!
In the last two Newsletters I reasoned why you should hire a professional photographer. This time I am giving
advice on how to improve your summer photos.
Tip # 1: One of my greatest " cringe moment" is when I look at people taking photos with their digital cameras and stare at their LCD after each shot. "PEOPLE" you are missing the moments! Look at your photos later on the computer; trust your instincts, if you can't help yourself put black tape over your LCD to avoid temptation.
Tip #2: Now that you are no longer looking at your LCD screen after each shot it now time to step back. Before you compose the shot be prepared. You can set your camera on automatic, all amateurs do. If you are adventurous try the "P" mode. It stands for "Play", not really. There you have control over your exposure and depth of field, "Whaaaaat" you ask yourself is that all about? Well, simply put you control the darkness and lightness and the details of focus (DOF). Think about the creative choices you now have at your fingertips. Example the photo of the silhouetted surfer above. I intentionally underexposed the photo by two stops (for tech heads) resulting in a deeper colored sunset and dark surfers.
Tip #3: Always, always have an extra camera battery fully charged with you; it is worth the extra weight (10 oz.) and cost, if your battery dies your camera dies, plain and simple.
Always charge your batteries every night after use. I mean would you let your smart photo go uncharged for days? Lastly, if you are not planning to use your camera for weeks take the battery out of your camera to avoid nasty stuff happening to the battery; don't want to go there.
Tip #4: If you go to the sandy, gritty beach put your camera in a zip lock bag to avoid... you guessed it sand getting into your camera. If you do have to change lenses avoid this activiity during a windy moment otherwise expect sand to get on you camera sensor. Oh yeh, always clean your camera sensor before shoots.
OK that is all. If you have any question give me a call.
Next newsletter I will discuss more complicated things like file format and pop-up flash.
Enjoy Your Summer
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223 West Front St.
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