Artists Personal Choice is a series of posts where the artist themselves show us four favourites from their own work.
Our artist in this post is, Lawrence Costales Lake Elsinore, CA – United States
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Mostly self taught, I began to seriously study what makes a good photo by studying great paintings.
In 1988 I took some black and white photography classes at Mt. SAC collage, CA but I couldn’t wait to take the required classes to get to color, so I went off on my own.
My first award-winning photo was a military image of a sunset through camouflaged equipment. My latest travel photographs are from my tour of duty in Kuwait in support of the US Army at Camp Doha and Camp Arifjan. During my one year there, 2003/4, I was also able to travel to Italy and Dubai, UAE.
Some of my earlier works have been displayed at the ARCO Towers in Los Angeles, US Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia, Galleria Nina Moreno, Tijuana, B.C., the Temecula Art Gallery(TAG), El Encanto, Monteray Park, 2003 and various small shows throughout Southern California. My last show, ‘Images from Near and Far’, was at the Corona Public Library, 2006, where 32 of my images were displayed.
The majority of my Fine Art work is shot with a Mamiya 645 and my Head Shots with a NIKON F4. I have worked with digital images since 1998 when I was in the Marine Corps and use an early AGFA 1.8mp camera.
Since I shoot very little film, my Fine Art photos reflect images that have effected me emotionally. I hope you enjoy them and they have a positive effect on you also.
You can view a video of my tour in the Middle East.
I was visiting the Orange Empire Rail Museum and I wanted to take an image that I had taken the week before. I was after a different color temperature of the scene. My first “Call Waiting” had a cool bluish tint to it and was very popular. When I got there and was setting up this resident museum cat jumped up on the chair and did not want to move. The scene now had a warm tint to it and since the cat was also yellow, I decided to take the shot after having to yell “hey cat” to get it to look up. This area has since been altered.
Old festival masks outside a window. I only a few hours in Venice and I wanted to capture something besides the typical canal scenes. Dozens of people a minute were stopping behind me to view the gondolas passing and I noticed that no one even noticed the beauty six feet in front of them. Getting my bulky hand held Mamiya 645 steady was a challenge in getting this gem. I had to lean over a railing to get the composition I wanted.
I saw this scene often because it was near the Chili’s restaurant I went to at least once a week during my one year tour in Kuwait. There was something always missing until I saw the moon starting to climb. I had to wait until the moon was in the right place and the sky was dark enough to capture the color of the sky and the snack bar lights. A few moments later and it would have been too dark. Notice the lone man in far right. A chili’s Filipino employee on break. It was still about a 100F at this time. Shot with a Mamiya 645 with about a 5 second exposure, F22
A museum P40 photographed and place by a nebula by digital means.
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