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...Photography is both a science and an art. As with other sciences, there are many formulas. While ifga is an acronym for a variety of things (just try a search), in photographic terms, it is more accurate to write I:f::g:a with i=image size , f =focal length, g = ground coverage, and a = altitude. By knowing what is needed in one part of the equation, it is a simple matter to figure the rest. In the navy, photography was primarily an aerial asset so the formula was used endlessly. To honor the past, we use a graphical representation of this formula as an emblem ( a smaller triangle upside down and touching a larger triangle at the apex) that we wear on our right arm to identify ourselves as "Photographers Mates". 1.2.2

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...I have been doing one type of photography or another since 1979. I have a two-year degree in commercial photography from Spokane falls community collage with a one year advanced certificate in illustrative and industrial photography. While in school, I worked in a general service photo studio for two years doing location documentation and darkroom production.
After graduation, I worked for two years as the manager of a one-hour Noritsu lab averaging 400-500 rolls a day. I have attended Noritsu technical courses in Japan and Los Angeles.
I worked for two years as a lighting technician and production assistant in a TV station doing live newscasts and remote , a weekly magazine and producing local market advertising.
At various times I freelanced with varying degrees of succeeds by creating portrait, wedding, commercial, and illustrative photographic products.
In the navy, my first job was in a three-man color/b&w lab on a sub tender in Scotland. We did the gamut of still photography: medical, security, legal, journalism, documentary, portrait, grip and grin, and copy work. Using b/w, color and slides, the work included shooting, processing, printing, retouching, quality control and matting we averaged about 1300 jobs a year.
My second job was a one-man lab in London, England. I was responsible for all the same things plus all the support functions: supply, record keeping, and scheduling. This job was more high visibility and included cover political functions as well. I averaged about 800 jobs per year.
My third job was part of a pre-commissioning crew of an aircraft carrier. This was my first time in a large navy lab. We had 25 - 30 people and even more tasking. We had dedicated flight deck photographers, photographers with firer fighting teams and were tasked with shooting, editing and layout for a 700-page cruise book [similar to a year book]. While I was there I was the supply petty officer, shoot crew petty officer, cruise book photo editor, and wrote the first web site [in text editor] of 35 pages. We averaged about 3000 jobs a year.
Next I went to our schoolhouse in Pensacola, fl as an instructor. I taught about 400 students from navy, air force, army, marines and civil servants. Halfway through my tour, I had to handle the logistics of having instructors and equipment fully functioning in two locations at the same time while we started up and moved to a new location at Fort Mead, Md. I was lucky there and earned qualifications in Quality Control and advanced digital imagery.
From there, I went to another carrier and its workload, politics and deployments. And lots of job security.
Now I am on what I expect to be my last tour before retirement. And, on par for the navy, I am working in an area almost new for non-linear broadcast quality video production, editing, training and me. I am preparing for retirement by setting up a general purpose digital studio and production company with a range of multimedia products that I am in the process of designing now. 1.2.1.a

...I have done multiple web sites and have been frustrated by the development time and lack of interaction with the visitor. The ease of starting the blog with the ease of updates makes this an appealing format, at the moment :). Without giving up hard earned green, there might be some unacceptable organizational restrictions but I’m willing to give it a go. 1.2.1

...Learn, Grow, And Share.

Over the years, the more that I learned about photography, the more I have realized that I don't know.

As a photography instructor, I found that teaching things that I thought I knew, I didn't. Simple concepts that I had used every day, I had come to take for granted. Talking about them and trying to explain them helped me refocus on the basics.

Just like any athlete, you need to work on the basics relentlessly throughout your carrier. It must be a part of what you do without your thinking about it. That allows you to concentrate on the subtitles of what is going on around you.

This blog is an avenue to learn more through interaction and the exercise of ideas, views, and theory, which should be subject to current upgrade and revision for us all. 1.1