Wasted Continuum

I get a lot of people asking me about my lighting setup in my photography. I find it hard to explain my setup because I don’t really have a single, rigid setup. Instead, I usually just apply the basic theories of lighting that I have learned over the years and apply them to the scene at hand. I’ll say it now. Lighting is easy. Let me be more accurate. The basics of lighting is easy and learning a couple concepts will get you along the way to mastering lighting your scenes.

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I have decided to start up my 365 project again on my Flickr. This will be my third. You can view my first photo on Flickr here.

Something exciting happened to me this week. I had one of my photos used in a Men’s Health article. Wednesday morning, I was contacted by someone in the creative department to use one of my photos from my Flickr stream. I have been contacted before by various sites about using my photos before, but never by a national publication like Men’s Health. By Wednesday afternoon, the article was up and my photo was included with my name right next to the byline. This morning I woke up to a pleasant surprise. I was emailed again. This time I was told to check out the front page of www.menshealth.com. I was a little shocked when I saw that the article my photo is featured in was the top story. So for the whole morning of June 17th, 2010, my face was plastered front and center on the homepage of the Men’s Health website. It was kind of surreal. It may not be as big of a deal as I make it out to be, but to me, it means a lot. I am a self-taught photographer and I have worked really hard over the years to improve myself skills and knowledge in it. Having one of my photos published by major magazine like Men’s Health in a way validates my work and efforts. Whatever it means, it did make for a good week for me.

View the full screenshot from this morning

I decided to enter one of my favorite photos, Center, into the Charity Print Auctions Flickr Group. The winning bid for this 12×18 inches print will be donated to Red Cross to help with the Haiti relief efforts. To enter, all you need to do is to comment on the photo here with your bid. If you do not have a Flickr account, you may email me at auction@wilchow.com and I will make a bid on your behalf in the comments. The auction ends on January 24th, 2010 at 23:59 CST. For more details and to bid, head over to the photo here.

I just found out today that my photo got accepted into the Fine Arts exhibit at the Minnesota State Fair this year. I have to thank my friends for supporting me, but the one I have to thank the most is my Liz. She is the one I made this photo for. She is the one that inspires me. If you are in the MN area at the end of the month, come check out the Fair if you can. If you haven’t been to the MN State Fair, you really should. It’s the second biggest one in the US.

State Fair information

I am once again showing at the Saint Paul Art Crawl this year. I will be displaying a small selection of my photography on Friday April 24, 6-10 pm and Sat April 25, 12-8 pm at the Lowertown Loft (studio 506). I will not be showing on Sunday, though the Art Crawl does continue on that day. Please come by to support me and the other artist displaying if you can.

St Paul Art Crawl
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