T Paige Dalporto

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Somewhere between Impressionistic and Surrealism, Composition is important, Detail is important, Contrast is important, Lighting is important. Beauty is important. Freezing the subject is not important. tripod free. holding the camera is important as facilitator. It's been a revelation to me what the camera is capable of. And what the human eyes does not see. So this is visibility. Expanded.

(I will say, the shutter speed is slow and the aperture setting is appropriately 22 ish or smaller).

Monet and the Impressionists and the Decisive Moment photographs, who tried to capture what they saw when they saw it. I have brought us much closer to this goal.

These photographs are made in the field, at the moment I press the shutter button of my camera. They require little more than your basic darkroom work.

I started taking pictures when I was 12. Even then I was ahead of my time, taking pictures of my Weimeraner dressed up in sweat pants, seated upon my go-cart, and on the roof my parents house. (The dog was the trusting sort).

I also came up with the Ken Burns Effect before Ken Burns, with a video I made and still have.

I was a photojournalist in WV for 20 years. In 2007 I beg...

WVU, Morris Harvey College, WV State

Tamarack: James L. Dickerson Gallery
Taylor Books Art Gallery
Wheeling Artisan Center
WVU Tech Gallery