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Subject: [Leica] Exciting News!
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 19:57:02 -0600
References: <e1706ce0-abe7-36fc-8511-2b3cdb071ca2@iol.ie>

Great to see some good news especially in the arts.  His tutorials are 
excellent.  

Sent from my iPad

> On Mar 5, 2021, at 7:26 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
> 
> ?Congrats Chris on the grant. Nice looking lighting arrangement which 
> certainly works on your Leicas. I hope your infection clears up quickly, 
> and that you're back fully on your feet again soon.
> Douglas
> 
>> On 05/03/2021 17:45, 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.
>> 
>>  
>> 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.
>> 
>>  
>> 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.
>> 
>>  
>> 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.
>> 
>>  
>> Here?s the photo I made:
>> 
>> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/examples/led-studio/images/3050053.jpg
>> 
>>  
>> Here's the setup I used to make the photo. Nothing fancy, just a quick 
>> shot on my dining room table.
>> 
>> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/examples/led-studio/images/3050017.jpg
>> 
>>  
>>  
> 
> 
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