Creating History

Inspired by Howard Schatz 

ISO 1600
36 mm
f/ 5
1/100

Documentary

     I came home one weekend to find that my Dad had received a letter from Germany asking for information about my Grandfather Kmetzsch.  I loved my Grandfather very much but my time with him was short. Because of this letter sent  by a German stranger, my Dad and I drew closer to my Grandfather as we began a journey of learning things we never knew about him.
     I decided that instead of just going through records that I would document my experience through the artistic venue of photography.  I did this because I felt the photography would express my own personal experience and subsequently, my own emotions about my Grandfather. These events ten became a catalyst that inspired my Dad to dig farther and deeper into his Father's life.

  

                                     

                                     

                                    

                                        

Art Lighting

ISO 200  40 mm   f 5.3   1/80

ISO 1600   48mm   f 5.6   1/125

Creative Lighting

ISO 3200

48 mm

f 5.3

1/10

Lighting set up