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| David Breashears - 1999 |
Beating on my Own Drum
In that now remote past century, the photographers in Vancouver who made the most money were the ones who used a technique called “table-top photography”. For jobs involving the photography of food they had large overhead flash softboxes and they would shoot down with their medium format cameras. The demise of most magazines in the city killed that profession. Even worse, the proliferation of the telephone camera had everybody taking pictures of their food in restaurants.
Until 2012 I was gainfully employed teaching photography at a school on 10 Avenue called Focal Point. One day I taught my class a technique I had perfected in 1999 with an explorer called David Breashears where I took my softbox to a mountain shop and arranged object on the floor (not a table top!) and photographed them. In 2007 I used my table-top technique on a man, Wade Davis, called Hero of the Planet by the National Geographic.
I now believe that my scanning of plants on my Epson flatbed scanner is a sort of table top. I can place objects on it and the depth of field of the device is phenomenal.
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| Wade Davis |
To me the real wonder is the ability for me to do a frequent autobiographical display of objects and photographs.
Could someone reading this be inspired?
