What are the top things that have influenced your photography?
Eventually I got good at it and made my living photographing just about everything, everywhere.
Photography includes everything that matters to our humanity, and there is still more we can do with it. The challenge never ends, and has given me a very interesting life. Now I teach others what took me many years to discover -- how to make a photograph something special (to them as well as others). And I love doing it.
Matthew
Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"
Determined to learn how to take better photos, I started looking through the photography section at the library. That was 20 years ago, and I've been obsessed ever since.The biggest influences in helping me learn photography have been Drawing 101 class and working in a full service lab/camera store for four years. The drawing class really helped teach me to see the 3D world in 2D, and at the photo lab I spent every day talking to photographers of all stripes. I took many photography classes in college, and I know I learned a lot there, but that Drawing 101 class did more to improve my work than the rest combined. The difference between my eyes and the lens was a lot less of a mystery.
The biggest influence on what I photograph is my family. Before my kids came along I didn't photograph people much. Landscapes were my thing. I took photos of people, but I didn't spend much effort thinking about it. Now people are my favorite subject.
MLKstudios wrote: I was good in most all art mediums, but my first photos were so-so at best. I decided to study more as to what makes a photograph meaningful and learned from some of the best. I guess it was the challenge that got to me early on.
Eventually I got good at it and made my living photographing just about everything, everywhere.
Photography includes everything that matters to our humanity, and there is still more we can do with it. The challenge never ends, and has given me a very interesting life. Now I teach others what took me many years to discover -- how to make a photograph something special (to them as well as others). And I love doing it.
Matthew
Is that why we haven't seen any photos you have taken...because they are so-so?
It's amazing, you teach, yet when I google you, I find no photographs that you have taken. I would think someone in your place, one who is a photographer who now teaches would at least have some samples of your work. Opps I guess all those photos went disappearing when you were in jail.
I started teaching before digital and used to have a sample of my work online. Not anymore. Though I'm sure there are some still floating around somewhere.
Matthew
Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"
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