Reaction Paper

Reaction Paper

About a week or 2 ago my photography class visited a photographer’s studio.  The photographer we visited is Jim Lennon (lol no to be confused with john lennon).  He is a local photographer on long island and mostly works with corporate clients.  His studio is kind of small and he only has 1 employee, his wife.  He has 2 Hasselblad cameras and a variety of lights.  H also has a mock kitchen set up for food/kitchen based clients. 

            I learned a lot during this visit.  I learned how expensive and difficult it is to run your own studio.  I also learned how much training and year of experience you need to have to make it actually happen.  There is so much more that goes into running your own studio, way more than I imagined.  After visiting his studio and hearing speak I am definitely discouraged.  It is way too complicated, expensive and difficult to start out as a beginner photographer and have your own studio.  This discouragement is not bad though.

            Jim also talked about many other career opportunities that photography can offer.  That put me at ease, I might not be able to start off having my own studio but that doesn’t mean I can’t still have a photography related career.  I can be a free-lance photographer, or a photo assistant, or a photo editor etc.  There are still plenty of other reasonable careers out there.  I also really like messing around in Photoshop and seeing what I can come up with by combining different photos.  Maybe someday I can turn my Photoshop skills into a career.  All I know is that I will not be starting off my career in photography by opening up my own studio.  This field trip was a good eye opener, it opened up a world of possibilities in photography and made me think of things I never would have considered.

The picture above is a combination of a picture I took of my friend at Robert Moses, A tree in Miami and stars from Arizona.