Steve Losh

It's been just about a year since I got my first SLR camera and started studying photography with any degree of seriousness. I've come quite a way since then, and it hasn't been exactly what I expected.

RIT has three main areas of photographic study: fine art, advertising and photojournalism. If you had asked me on the day I got my camera which of those three I thought I'd be most interested in (even though I wasn't majoring in photography) I would have said "photojournalism." When I first started shooting I hated using flash and was mostly only interested in capturing musicians and dancers.

Since then I've learned a lot. I'm pretty comfortable with hot shoe flash and studio lighting. I know how to develop and print black and white film in a darkroom myself. I've discovered how wonderful a certain degree of abstraction can be and I'm slowly but surely getting more artistic as time goes by. I think my answer to the previous question has changed; right now I see myself becoming more and more of a fine art photographer. I certainly don't consider myself good at that yet but it's the path I've started down and plan on continuing. There's something really special about planning, visualizing and not just taking but creating a photograph that I've fallen in love with.

I'm going to be updating my site to reflect this shift. Obviously the layout has changed a bit, but I've also removed the galleries of random photos that I had posted previously. From now on I'll only be displaying photographs with a cohesive idea behind them. I'll still post tons of random haphazard photos to my flickr site, but the galleries on this site will be for showing off what I most enjoy and am really proud of.