Bio

["Ari Patz" <ari113@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gentlemen (are there any ladies in this group?):

My name is Stanley K. Patz, I am a professional photographer, living and 
working out of my urban home in New York City, USA.

I moved from Boston to New York to learn my business and sort of got 
stuck here. In 1971, I bought a floor in an almost abandoned loft 
building, fixed it up a bit and raised a family. I live in the back and 
have a studio, darkroom, computer room and workshop in the front.

Commercially, I usually do still life stuff, mostly catalog and ad 
illustrations with an occasional corporate, architectural or model shot 
in the mix. For myself, I shoot impressionistic studio stills involving 
"light-painting". But, in the last year or so, I have done some outdoor 
work on infrared film which has brought me to this group.

Although I support many formats (35mm, 6x7, 4x5 and 8x10) almost 
everything I shoot is 4x5. I have developed a special field camera 
system for outdoor work centered on a 4x5 Meridian B. Recently, I 
mounted some old Kodak glass in a modern shutter to get softer looking 
scenics. I use Kodak HSI, a Tiffen 25A and a polarizer.

As a child in Boston, I made myself a darkroom in the cellar and learned 
photography through trial and error. Up until a year ago, I would have 
considered myself a traditionalist, but my 21-year-old son wanted a big 
computer for animation. So we got about 10 grand worth of hardware which 
included Photoshop. I am now convinced that the computer is one of the 
most interesting and important advances in the history of photography.

Stanley K. Patz    7/25/98





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