I have been shooting professional photography for over 20 years, although, I am not one of those people who was born with a camera in his hands or shot for the school yearbook. I started shooting in the middle of my college days inspired by watching another creative photographer working. I was always concerned with the design of a thing or a space and since I couldn’t draw, creating images with a camera answered my creative aspirations.

There are visual questions I ask when photographing anything. What other angle can I get? Is everything you see there for a purpose? Is the answer to the question elegant or just enough

to get by? Why is it there, where does you eye go, does it create tension or feel balanced (could be both), is everything there for a reason, what is the question that needs to be asked? I learned to ask these questions through 20 years of being behind the lens and sometimes in front, of being in the darkroom or in front of a computer monitor.

These are the split-second decisions made even before looking through the camera. Then you look and see. Quick, did you get that expression? Are you shooting inside the box or looking for that happy accident? Arnold Palmer said “The more I practice, the luckier I get.”

The thrill of photography is KNOWING you got the shot. That’s the tease, the juice. It used

to take hours or days to see the final transparencies on the lightbox. You would critique

your work and look and see what worked and what you could impove on. Now, the result is

immediate ( although very small). You have to react quick, look quick, correct quick. Shoot like you are shooting film, get it in the camera. Don’t rely on Photoshop to fix everything.

Look, See, Click.

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Michael LoBiondo

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA

704-521-1210

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Professional Photographer in Charlotte NC Michael LoBiondo