The HVP Blog
I enjoy shooting film in black and white. Sometimes it's beneficial to strip away the color from an image and focus more on the composition and the mood that the photograph invokes. When the contrast and the sharpness are captured well, the result is a strong image:
Capturing the lights of the Christmas season using my film SLR and Cinestill 800T film.
Photography is the capture and manipulation of light. It is the combination of lens aperture and shutter speed with the light sensitivity of the sensor or film that creates the image. In most situations, we want to capture crisp and sharp images that are properly focused and exposed. An unintentionally blurry and softly focused image is disappointing and frustrating -- most of the time. But what if a blurry image is intentional? Or rather, what if a partly blurry image is intentional?
I love to cook. It's something that grew out of necessity when I was a kid (I was a really picky eater, which drove poor Mom crazy) to another creative outlet. I can save money and create healthy and tasty dishes. And yes, being able to cook is popular with the ladies. Over the last year, I've started to bake my own artisan bread. I wasn't under lockdown anymore, so I can't say that it was a pandemic pastime. But I had just renovated my kitchen and was exploring areas of cooking that I hadn't tried in the past. The practice of breadmaking, in my view, is akin to the practice of photography.
Hello world. And to be even more precise, Hello Atlanta! I'm Howard Hamilton, the founder of Hamilton Visual Productions. I started this company to provide photography services for Atlanta-based businesses and individuals. At this moment, I am focusing on food, restaurant, and real estate photography. The choice of "Visual" in my company name is intentional. As the company evolves, I plan to expand into other forms of visual art. The most obvious expansion is toward videography, but there are other forms of visual art worth exploring. The purpose of this blog is to write about the photographs that I take and the stories that surround them. From my writings, I hope that my readers -- and hopefully, future clients! -- will have a better understanding of my approach to photography and an appreciation of the stories that can be told through this visual medium. I've written blogs for over twenty years on a variety of subjects, and while it's best to focus on a broad subject, the best blogs develop a character and style that can't be scripted. That is the approach that I will take here. I think that's enough for an initial post, so I'll stop here.