Tate Brown-Smith
Jamie Halstead
Issue date: 2/2/10 Section: Features
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Tate Brown-Smith is a 20-year-old South Campus student majoring in computer science. He has been a photographer for 4 years.
His weapon of choice is a Nikon D80. He also owns two strobe lights, several lenses and an external speedlite flash. He has taken Photo 1, Creative Photo, and Digital Photo.
"Photo 1 taught me mostly everything I needed to know about photography," Tate said, "I recommend you take Photo 1. It will either draw you deeper into photography or push you away."
Tate shoots digitally, but would take more images in film if he had a darkroom. In order to become a skilled digital photographer, some background and experience in Adobe Photoshop or other photo editing program is strongly encouraged.
"I feel that Photoshop is almost a 'must have' for digital photographers, but some people use it too much, which I feel strays away from photography and more into graphic arts," said Tate, "This isn't bad, it's just not photography past a certain point. Most of my training came from the digital photographer class I took."
Tate was honored with 1st place in the color division in the 2010 spring 29th Annual College-wide Photography Competition for his photograph of a fair wheel.
"Photography is a very opinionated medium. I have seen bad, blurry, or overexposed photographs that interest me more than sharp, detailed, properly exposed images," said Tate, "I think that photo competitions are 100 percent up to the judge, but each photo should invoke some kind of emotion."
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