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I hope to pass along useful information to help make your pen photos better"
Photograph © 2003 Terry Clark
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I’m very honored and humbled that the great folks at
Pentrace have invited me to write a column about pen photography for their site.
It’s not often you are allowed to combine both vocation and avocation as
this opportunity provides.
While I’ve been a working professional photographer all my adult life,
I’m a relative newcomer to this hobby. Three years ago a dear friend saw
me struggling to writing a letter with a dip pen and asked, in the most polite
way possible, if I had completely lost my mind. When I explained I was only trying
to slow down from the warp speed world of digital imaging and computers he chuckled
and asked why I wasn’t using a fountain pen. “What’s that?”
I answered in total puzzlement having grown up in a world full of Bic sticks.
The next day he gave me my first pen, an Inoxchrome. |
That one pen was all it took to set the fires of collecting ablaze. For the
next year I bought anything and eveything with a point. At end of the first year
I realized I had made the equivalent of one pen purchase per day. Thanks to a
number of wonderful and helpful people like Jim Gaston, David Iaacson, Roger Cromwell,
Joel Hamilton and Michael Fultz I was finally able to understand the foolishness
of trying to collect EVERYTHING. Thankfully I found my true love in the Waterman
52 series and pens with flexible or unique nibs. It’s good to be focused,
even just a little!
Photograph © 2003 Terry Clark
Through this column I hope to pass along useful information to help make your
pen photos better whether for record keeping, on-line auctions or beauty shots
worthy of framing and displaying in your home. While we will deal mostly with
direct digital photography the basic principals are exactly the same if you’re
using film.
Photograph © 2003 Terry Clark
If you have questions or suggestions for topics you’d like to see covered
I would love to hear from you. You can contact me at: terryclark.photo@verizon.net
Terry Clark has been a professional photographer for more than 25 years.
He specializes in location and studio digital photography for commercial, advertising
and editorial clients worldwide. He is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and represented
in NYC by Black Star Corporate. He can be contacted at: terryclark.photo@verizon.net.
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