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Photography by Mac McGuffee - Mississippi Photography by Mississippi Photographer
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Through photography we may improve our world and the plight of our fellow man as well as creatures great and small by documenting and bringing to light not only the preciousness of life around us, but also the effects of corporate greed, ruthlessness of politics, ravages of war, effects of natural disasters, cruelty of man against all creatures, starvation of masses, poverty, injustice, the plight of the homeless and the destruction of our world.
The beginning of my photographic journey was a direct result of two aunts who taught school in Santa Fe, New Mexico convincing my parents that I needed to be involved in the arts. After viewing a couple of my first works at painting with oils they encouraged me to find another medium. It was at this point that they decided to ask me what interested me. My answer was "photography" thinking that this would surely get them off my back. Shortly after giving them my answer I was presented with what looked like a box with film in it. I was instructed in it's use. "To take a wide picture you turn the camera sideways and to take a tall picture you turn it straight up"...such were the technical instructions for taking landscape and portrait shots. There were two view finders. one on the top if you were taking a vertical and one one the side if you wanted to take a horizontal shot. A knob on the side was used to advance the film and the shutter release was a real nifty looking lever with a rounded red button. But with such antiquated equipment I got hooked. I read everything I could get my hands on that was related to photography. If I lacked the funds to buy a particular book I visited the library or picked the brains of a photographer willing to share information.
I will confess that during the initial stages of my journey I equated needed improvement with newer more expensive equipment...when the problem was not the equipment but my camera practices. As photographers, whether in the studio or the great outdoors, light is our most powerful tool. In simple terms we use instruments to measure it and a box with an adjustable hole in the front to control the amount of light entering. Whether we spend several thousand or a hundred dollars for a camera our best results depend more on our software than our hardware. Scott Smith in his book on Studio Lighting said it well," it's not all the hardware that makes a photographer good at what she/he does...it's the software between the ears....it's what we know about the hardware and light and how we apply it." Knowledge is power."
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- McGuffee Productions
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- Brandon MS
- United States 39043
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- +1.6018252551
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