1. Photographer Spotlight: Samantha Tran

    Samantha Tran is a 26 years old photograper based in Texas where she lives with her husband. The notion that to be a photographer you needed a degree has long been erased from her mind as she’s taken advantage of online tutorials, blogs, books and inspiration from Flickr to come to the realization that all you need is the desire and passion to become one. Her dream job would involve traveling the world to take awesome photographs of her experience.

    1. How would you define your photographic style?

    Since I try to soak up everything photography, I don’t really know that I have a particular style. Which honestly sums up my whole life. I am one of those people that will try to go in every direction all at once. I’m extremely eclectic. I am indecisive but picky I think that comes through in my photography. Not that it’s a bad thing, but I don’t know if that constitutes a “style”.

    I like color and I like beauty. I like motion and I like stills. I like photo manipulation and I like straight out of the camera. I have tried all the styles I come across, portraiture, landscapes, black and white, high key, low key, heavy photoshop, night shots, flowers, animals, macro, underwater…you name it, I have either tried it or plan to. Change keeps you on your toes. It keeps things interesting. There you go, that’s my style: Interesting.

    2. What does your camera equipment consist of?

    Since I have only been doing photography for a little over a year now, I don’t have quite as much as some do, but I love what I have.

    My main camera is my Sony A700. I have three lenses for it. A telephoto (18-200mm/f3.5-6.3) a macro (50mm/f2.8) and a wide angle (20mm/f2.8). I also have a remote, the external HVL-F42AM flash, and a QSX 9502TM Sunpak tripod.

    I also use the Sony H3 (usually for travel since I have not found a smaller tripod) and my new underwater camera the Canon D10 (not pictured, since I had to take a photo of my photo equipment…I wasn’t sure how everyone else did this.

    3. What’s your post-production software of choice?

    I use only Photoshop. I have heard great things about other software like Lightroom, but I have yet to tackle it. In part because I don’t have it. Photoshop is an amazing program that I am understanding a teeny tiny bit more every day. I believe it’s possibilities are almost endless! Or maybe I’m just a newbie.

    4. Are you considering any equipment upgrades in the future?

    I would love to upgrade to the A900 at some point, and I also know that Sony has another, sleeker, alpha NEX line that I am highly interested in. That could replace my H3 at some point. I would also like a Carl Zeiss lens.

    5. Share with us your proudest photograph.

    Haha! You DO realize that you are asking an extremely indecisive person, to be decisive, on the spot…right? Ok, I suppose if I HAD to choose my proudest photo it would be:

    Sometimes...... you're all you've got.

    This photo marked the first time, for me, that I really executed a vision I had in my head, perfectly, using all the techniques in Photoshop and general photo composition that I had learned up to that point. It’s a self portrait and means a lot to me. It made me very proud and I felt very accomplished.

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