I’m settled in Miami, Florida now. This image was a balcony at the Savannah College of Art and Design; I miss my hommies in Savannah and I’ll always have mad love for them. I’ve been running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off lately; I’m actually writing this between my break of my ADFed club meeting at my new university, Miami International University of Art and Design. I don’t think this place will ever replace the connection I had with SCAD, but I’m in Miami and closer to home now!

I decided to post this photograph because earlier, about a few hours ago actually, I showed it to president of the Photography Club at MIU. He saw my work and told me that he loves it. I appreciate the love but I’ve been hearing people tell me that they love my work years ago and I want to push it so much further.

Gad damn I’m so happy that I’ve had Timothy Keating as a professor at SCAD. Professor Keating showed me how to start making photographs instead of taking them. I titled this photograph the, Jumping Lights. Looking back at it every memory, the smell, the temperature, the light level (that’s weird Dwayne), EVERYTHING runs through my mind.

There’s nothing to photographing an image like this one, you can do it do. All you need is a tripod and the basics of photography. Here’s $25.00 from me: set-up your tripod, place the camera on it and remember the higher the f-stop the less light that comes into the camera, the lower the f-stop the more light that comes into the camera.

Remember when you were a kid and your mother took you to the food-store/ grocery-store at night and you squint your eyes to at the over head lights in the parking lot? That same light burst effect that you saw when you look at the light is the image of the light the camera records with a higher F-stop and a lower shutter speed. I think this one might have been something like F-22 and 1/4 of a second at ISO 200.

Go and have some fun and show people your work.

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DT.

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