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20 questions – Don Chick
Your Name? Don Chick
What brand camera do you use? Canon
Your age? 48, just barely!!!
What lighting brand do you use? Photogenic and Paul C. Buff
Your favorite lens? Canon 24-105 f4.0
Mac of PC? Honestly, It doesn’t matter to me. I just want them to work. With that said; however, I currently use pc’s.
Your favorite lab? Millers, love, love love!!!
Who was/is your biggest inspiration and why? Yousf Karsh. Absolutely love his classic imagery. His portrait books are great for studying light, composition and emotion.
Others include (but are not limited to) Alfred Stieglitz, Picasso
Contemporary Photographers: Darton Drake, Joseph & Louise Simone, Fuzzy Duenkel, Dean Collins
How long have you been shooting ? 14 years
Your favorite color? Red
What piece of gear would they have to pry from your cold dead hands? If I am cold and dead, you can have all my gear, I won’t need it!!!!
If you could do anything else what would it be? I can’t do anything else. I could do other things to earn money; however, my passion is to create portraits of people.A client recently asked me, “Do you ever get tired of photographing people?”….. I had never been asked that by a client before so the question took me by surprise…… I thought about it and said… “No, I love to photograph people.” I could photograph people 10 hours a day, if I had that many clients…
How would you explain your style? Classic, Eclectic….
What advice would you give someone starting out today? If you can “do” anything else, do it.
There’s already enough starving photographers in the field.
Ok, so you insist on being a photographer…. I know you just want to take pretty pictures; however, listen to me for a second……
1st. You’re not as good as you think you are…. You’ve been shooting a year, you’ve had no training and just because you can tilt the camera, add an effect and over saturate doesn’t mean your “good”… It just means your an untrained, over saturate’r with an ego problem.
2nd. It takes 5 years to be able to take a portrait.
3rd. Swallow your pride and take some classes from people who do know what they’re doing.
What do you mainly shoot? Portraits
What’s your favorite thing to do when you aren’t shooting? Early in the morning, before anyone in the family is awake, I like to sit at my desk in the bay window and watch the birds come to eat the bread crumbs I throw out for them each day. Quiet music is also playing, & I have a nice cup of coffee. At this time I like to read my Bible and pray. The birds are a reminder of how the Lord said that I needn’t’ worry and that I should trust Him. He said He provides for the birds, won’t He then provide for me?!!!
This quiet/reflective time helps me meet the challenges of the day.
What did you have for breakfast? Cottage cheese & pineapple
Favorite drink or cocktail? Cream Soda
Most inspiring image you have ever seen? Yikes, one image…. Force me to pick one…… I guess the portrait of Winston Churchill by Y. Karsh.
Coolest place you have ever traveled to for work? I got to photograph a wedding at Fenway park in Boston. We trooped around the whole park shooting from many different spots. It was a LOT of work, but pretty cool to be there. I got to go to home plate to photograph the B&G out on the field.
Yup, that would be the coolest place!!!
Thank you for asking,
Kindness,
Don
See more of Don’s work HERE
OMG landscape portraits! kevin take note not everything has to be vertical
Jay,
I have always said that you can do horizontals, but they need to have a purpose. Don’s shots actually use the negative space as a compositional element. The majority of people just center the person in a landscape portrait and it looks like a head in a box.
If everyone shot like Don, the world would be a much prettier place!
Kevin