Patrick Shannahan, left, staff photographer for the Arizona Republic, explained the story behind each photograph and answered questions in a showing of his work to Reynolds Institute fellows Tuesday.
Shannahan's photography included numerous instances of unique perspectives for everyday scenes, as well as documenting the humorous and unusual.
One example, not shown here, was of a man dressed in a business suit, holding a cup of coffee, leaping over a rain puddle on a busy corner. Shown here at left is a display of automobiles held at a nudist colony and a reaction of a man whose cancer-stricken wife is giving birth via c-section, taken insiding an operating room.
Shannahan urged the audience to become familiar with their digital cameras' owner's manuals, and discussed the differences between automatic, shutter-priority and aperature-priority settings.
He also responded to questions on basic photography matters, such as f/stops and shutter speeds.
Shannahan, 33, who got his start in photography at age 16, revealed some of his secrets, such as shooting with a "fast" telephone lens, or one with a large aperature, in this case f/2.8, and his use of flash units in a "master" and "slave" arrangement. He said he did not use the built-in flash on his camera.
By the way, the photo at left was shot with available light, while the one at right was shot using the on-camera flash at a -2 setting. (At this late hour, or at least it's late to me as in Texas it's 11:53, the way to easily explain this escapes me.)
Mark Webber
Vidal M. Treviño School of Communications and Fine Arts
http://my.hsj.org/tx/laredo/vmt
Laredo, Texas
Shannahan's photography included numerous instances of unique perspectives for everyday scenes, as well as documenting the humorous and unusual.
One example, not shown here, was of a man dressed in a business suit, holding a cup of coffee, leaping over a rain puddle on a busy corner. Shown here at left is a display of automobiles held at a nudist colony and a reaction of a man whose cancer-stricken wife is giving birth via c-section, taken insiding an operating room.
Shannahan urged the audience to become familiar with their digital cameras' owner's manuals, and discussed the differences between automatic, shutter-priority and aperature-priority settings.
He also responded to questions on basic photography matters, such as f/stops and shutter speeds.
Shannahan, 33, who got his start in photography at age 16, revealed some of his secrets, such as shooting with a "fast" telephone lens, or one with a large aperature, in this case f/2.8, and his use of flash units in a "master" and "slave" arrangement. He said he did not use the built-in flash on his camera.
By the way, the photo at left was shot with available light, while the one at right was shot using the on-camera flash at a -2 setting. (At this late hour, or at least it's late to me as in Texas it's 11:53, the way to easily explain this escapes me.)
Mark Webber
Vidal M. Treviño School of Communications and Fine Arts
http://my.hsj.org/tx/laredo/vmt
Laredo, Texas
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