So much of photography, to me, is being in the right place at the right time. The most important issue, almost always, is light. I worked in a darkroom in Northridge, California, back in the mid-1980s, and I'll always remember Steve Moulton, the lab manager, telling me that "photography is light." Steve had studied photography at the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, California. He knew what he was talking about. At the same time, if you're not in the right place, with the right lighting -- and the right subject -- at the right time, you're not likely to achieve your photographic goal.
This is a photo I shot of the Dunes Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas before it was imploded. I set the camera to its "bulb" setting, left the aperture open, held the camera steady for a while, and then moved it around a bit to get the effect shown here.
So much of photography, to me, is being in the right place at the right time. The most important issue, almost always, is light. I worked in a darkroom in Northridge, California, back in the mid-1980s, and I'll always remember Steve Moulton, the lab manager, telling me that "photography is light." Steve had studied photography at the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, California. He knew what he was talking about. At the same time, if you're not in the right place, with the right lighting -- and the right subject -- at the right time, you're not likely to achieve your photographic goal.
