[Leica] Exciting News!

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

Great news, Chris.? Hope that you get over that infection soon.

On 3/5/21 11:45 AM, Christopher Crawford wrote:
> Last month, the Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne announced that 
> they were offering grants of up to $2500 to help artists in Fort Wayne who 
> have lost income due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant, called 
> "Re-Imagining Your Artistic Practice," was to be used to pay for things 
> that would help the funded artists make money during the pandemic. 
> Examples they gave could include things like having a website built or 
> buying equipment.
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> Before COVID, a big part of my income was teaching photography lessons to 
> individuals. I stopped doing this because I don't want to meet with people 
> and risk getting sick, as I have a history of getting nasty respiratory 
> infections even before COVID. I have a tutorials website that includes 
> written tutorials and videos where I teach a variety of photographic 
> techniques, including film developing, scanning, and digital photo editing.
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> The videos that have me in them, like the film developing tutorials, don't 
> look as good as they could because of poor lighting. The studio lighting I 
> had was a set of studio strobes, which are not suitable for video work; I 
> needed a set of good LED studio lights, so I wrote a grant proposal asking 
> for the money to buy some.
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> Last week, I received a check for $2500! I finally got a set of two lights 
> and a couple of stands for them yesterday. I don't want to do any videos 
> yet because I have been sick for more than a month now with a bronchial 
> infection that just won't go away, despite repeated antibiotic treatments. 
> So, I did a studio 'portrait' of some of my cameras, just to test the 
> lights to see if they worked well and had good color rendering.
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> Here?s the photo I made:
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> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/examples/led-studio/images/3050053.jpg
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> Here's the setup I used to make the photo. Nothing fancy, just a quick 
> shot on my dining room table.
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> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/examples/led-studio/images/3050017.jpg
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Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA