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Tamron Recipes: Photography with Jonathan Thorpe

2/12/2019

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Image copyright Jonathan Thorpe. All rights reserved.
by Skip Cohen

​The word recipe is used over and again in so many conversations and often beyond food. We've all heard it in reference to business models and especially "the recipe for success."  
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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients:
chose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of a team.
B.F. Fairless
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Welcome back to Tamron Recipes! This is our second in the series, and we're sharing the ingredients for great photography, and combining imaging with success by one of the finest "chefs" in the industry.

Jonathan Thorpe joins us, and he lives by the quote above from Ben Fairless:  Jonathan loves the career path he's chosen. He never compromises on anything but the best, and his creativity never slows down, capturing images that always tell a story.  And, without question, he's part of a remarkable team, the Tamron family.

About the Image and the SP 45mm lens: The image was created/captured in the local backyard of a friend's home. On the upcoming podcast, you'll hear Jonathan refer to the SP 45mm as one of his favorite "go to" lenses.

About "Chef" Jonathan:  Getting to know Jonathan started with the Tamron Image Masters many years ago.  There’s always more to his images than just a great photograph – he’s the ultimate storyteller, often sharing images that leave us looking into them, not just at them.  He's a commercial and advertising photographer out of the D.C. area, but I'm not sure there's anything he can't photograph, and always with the passion that's become his signature.

Jonathan never slows down in making photography "fun," both from the capture side as well as viewing. "Fun" is one of those words so often lost in business today, but he never disappoints. His tagline of a photographer, director, gentlemen says it all.
 
​There's a lot of Jonathan's work in the SCU archives. He needs to be on your radar. Just click on his image above to visit his website. And, you'll often find him speaking in the Tamron USA booth at the various conventions!

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Ingredients
​Camera: Canon 5D Mark IV
Lens: SP 45mm F/1.8 Di VC USD
Lighting: Four lights on the kids and monster with a key light being a Photek Softlighter. Two parabolics for back ground, and one directly behind the monster. Another strobe in the tent, and one near the fire to put the warm look on their faces. There was also a fog machine running.
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The Recipe 
Specs: f4 @ 1/30 ISO 160 
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On my bucket list of things to do in photography is someday being a crew member on one of Jonathan's shoots. His ability to tell a story isn't always limited to the final image. He's a team player and I loved this shot of the whole crew when it was all over!

Assistant: Erich Morse
Monster: Helen Bloom
Additional Makeup: Joan Jones
Costume: FXCA Studios
Location Owner: Brad Masters


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Click to listen to the all new podcast with "Chef" Jonathan

Stay tuned - there's a lot more coming this year from the "Tamron Kitchen." And, if you'd like more information about this remarkable new lens, just click on the banner below.
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Norma Grieve link
2/13/2019 04:35:12 pm

Staying tuned but this is all very tantalising! Whatever next?

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