A. C. Earle Photography

Phone: (206) 923 8243 • Email: acearle@acearle.com

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Many photographers use a couple of zoom lenses and a decent body. However, the flexibility of zoom lenses comes at a cost. All zoom lenses suffer from distortions to a greater or lesser extent. With high end zoom lenses, the distortions may not be immediately noticable. A. C. Earle uses primes for most of his work. A prime lens relies on the photographer moving toward or away from the subject to change the framing. More work for the photographer, in this case, means sharper images with the least distortion possible.

Our Work

Context Awareness

We stay true to our commitment: Creating an images for you that you will genuinely like. We won't rest until that happens!

Fresh Concepts

Classic serious photography has been predominantly black and white. Although color film stocks became popular, the art of black and white requires an understanding of tonality and how colors translate to the forms of black and white. Although A. C. Earle has been using a substantial amount of color in his work for 10 years, he has been working in black and white since 1977. Sometimes a fresh concept means to step away from the trends toward color to explore the classic tonality of photographic masters like Edward Weston or Ansel Adams. However, after exploring that tonality, in many cases color photography may well be the right choice for the subject or event.

Behind the Name

 

A. C. Earle began photography as a hobby in 1976 when he began working with an early 1959 model of Pentax screw mount 35mm SLR. The nature of the lenses for that camera made it ideal for black and white photography, and he worked exclusively with that body until its death in 2003 at the, for a mechanical device, ripe old age of 44 years. In addition to 35mm, he worked with 645 medium format film, culminating in the purchase of a Bronica ETRS. In 2003, he switched to Nikon film bodies and Nikkor lenses and in 2004 began working extensively with Nikon digital capture. With the advent of the current generation of Nikon digital full-frame bodies, the quality of the final results of digital photography has finally equalled the results of film in most ways. As a result, in 2013, he decided to stop working in film and work exclusively with Nikon digital bodies and Nikkor lenses.

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