Photography is a way for me to slow down and observe the world around me. My "commute-work-eat-work-commute-eat-sleep-repeat" daily life needs diversions... For me, photography & digital design is a great departure from the everyday pandemonium I willingly experience.

When completing my Masters Degree for Instructional Technology (2001), I was introduced to the world of Photoshop (version 6.0). Since then I have found the marriage of the creative with the technical to be very enticing. Several folks are opposed with the idea of manipulating photographs with software... They fear the true art form is being lost. While I applaud the goal of getting it right "in camera", I think differently. I embrace the digital edge Photoshop and other technologies bring to the table. I consider the photographer's tool belt more equipped... Enabling the designer to stretch their inventiveness by becoming their own image processor and custom printer...

Photography is about light - the main ingredient. It's then a bit of technical... apertures and f/stops... throw in a bit of timing and of course a bit of luck. More importantly it is about a vision with some imagination and determination mixed in. It is about capturing a moment and preserving it forever.

I attempt to post a few photographs and/or designs weekly as I constantly feed my technology hunger... On occasion I will update site templates and images to keep things looking new. But as we all know there will be days and weeks where photography needs to take a back seat to other higher priorities...




I shoot a Canon EOS 5D Mk II full frame d-SLR. I use the following lens: Canon 70-200m f/2.8L, Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L, Canon 100-400mm f/4L. Additional gear includes: Gitzo GT1541 Mountaineer 6x Tripod.

I shoot strictly in camera RAW and use Photoshop CS4 for all post processing work while Dreamweaver CS4 is used to build this site and the other slemak.com affiliated sites. I have also used Lightroom and Photomatix on occasion.

My makeshift 14' x 11' photo studio consists of two Britek HS-200 440w/s strobes, two 32" x 32" soft boxes and a few 10' x 24' muslin backdrops.

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