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Out of The Holler, through the fog great photography About: Out of The Holler through the fog To ColumbiaMagaziine.com This is a great picture. I think I will buy me a camera so I can start getting some cool shots like this. What kind of camera does she use? s/Maury Lewis Thanks. Adair County is so fortunate to have this extremely talented photographer sharing her art with them. I don't think she'd mind letting you know that the camera is a Cannon EOS Digital Rebel XTI, and I wish I could tell you that that is her secret. It's not. It's a fantastic camera, but the camera is only a tiny fraction of the skill set she uses to capture such a moment. I once handed Shamarie a $98 point-and-shoot camera I carry in my pocket when she didn't have her own camera with her. From the back of a crowded Adair Annex basement meeting room, a great venue but a terrible challenge for any photographer, she took some excellent news photos. Much better than what I had ever been able to achieve in 100s of shots there. She would have had marginally better photos with her expensive camera, but most readers would scarecly appreciate the difference. Though practice helps most develop into a great photographer, I sometimes think it is in the DNA of the really good ones. The late Pete Walker, one of the most talented photographers I ever knew, actually snapped very few photos, and barely learned the buttons on the $19.95 Polaroid Swinger camera the newspaper furnished him, but his black and white pictures in the old Columbia, KY, Daily Statesman were classics. Guido Sarducci's five minute universities were eternities compared to the quick course he gave in photography to the journalism school graduates who came to work for him. His rule, when he handed them the prized $19.95 Polaroid Swinger camera and an eight-pack of instant film, "Be outside. Up close. Keep your ass to the sun." The forumula created some great newspaper work, whether the new photographer were a j-school photography major or an pure neophyte. No matter what the camera, no matter how long some of us practice, we may never be Shamarie Claiborne's when it comes to taking award winning photos. Our suggestion would be to start with a camera you can afford to lose, maybe one of the $150 down digitals from Walmart in Columbia, KY. Take lots of photos. Batteries are cheap. Share them with friends, relatives and with us. Learn what pleases you and them. And take loads more photos. We also suggest you join Pen Waggener's ColumbiaMagazine.com group at Flickr.com and and share the photos and wisdom of over 65 other local photographers. This morning, it appeared that there would be 2,500 photos in the group collection sometime today. And, we hope, when you have an especially good one to share, let us know with an email to ColumbiaMagazine.com, and we'll make every effort to really showcase your work with a front page spotlight on CM, where the audience is many hundreds of time greater. One other comment: It doesn't hurt at all that you live in a photographer's paradise. The Creator must have photographers in mind when he created this picture taking paradise. Heaven, for many of them, would be a place with free Nikons and Canons, thermoses filled with hot coffee, endless double-A batteries, several sunsets and sunrises a day, and no end of Ozarks, Greenbriar Ridges, Liberty Roads, and Memorable Old Columbias - an Adair County kind of place. Such a reward would be very much worth a lifetime of virtuous living. -EW This story was posted on 2009-09-10 05:30:34
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