"I can't help wanting to capture some of those moments. I see faces or people in the street, expressions, and it freezes me. I want to preserve that moment in life, that second of beauty, that second of humanity. All of our great vulnerablity. "

 

photo BLOG : my sketch pad

 

I'm working of several projects right now: a massive portrait project titled : "Humanity". Also shooting normal everyday peoples: fashion here in Glasgow and worldwide. As well as commercial, fashion, and a couple other journalism projects.

   

I just bought my third Nikon FM-2n, completely over joyed to have one back in my hands. I am past digital cameras for anything artistic, they have little romance. " You can't copy the sexy feel of film. Even photo enthusiasts are realizing this, a 35mm negative on 6400 dpi scanner comes up as 250mb tiff file." ken Martin

  

I've been shooting for 20 yrs, and I've done photo professionally for 15 years.

I went to R.I.T - Rochester Institute of Technology, for Fine Art Photo, graduated in 1993 with a BFA. RIT is in New York, based in Kodak's home town.

I've got a collection of old working camera's I still shoot with... I'm a big Ziess fan, my oldest being 1929 and it shoots 120 film. Film gives a feeling to the images that digital just can't touch. With a strong background in photographic history + art; I try and create masterpieces of captured light.

  

my ART

    

I shape surfboards, photography, printing, graphic design, Art, writing, and acting.

I'm from NY, and lived in Hawaii the last 10 years. I just returned from 3 years in Scotland.

I also do modeling myself for outdoor & fitness companies... portfolio :

burton-flickr

  

  

weddings

 

www.andrewrammingphotography.com

  

  

my favorite camera: (Nikon FM-2n) The 1970s + 1980s were an era of intense competition between the major SLR brands: Nikon, Canon, Minolta, Pentax and Olympus. Between 1975 to 1985, there was a dramatic shift away from heavy all-metal manual mechanical camera bodies to much more compact bodies with electronic automation. Because of rapid advances in electronics, brands continually leapfrogged each other with models that had new or more automatic features. SLR camera manufacturers were attempting to expand from professional and semi-professional market to the growing consumer market. People wanted an affordable, yet full-featured 35 mm camera, but were intimidated by the need to learn the intricacies of operating a traditional SLR.

 

Against this backdrop, the FM2 may have seemed an anachronism, yet it sold well. It was a reliable, durable mechanical camera in a time of ever-increasing electronic automation, and less durable construction. The FM2 was not designed for budget-minded snapshooters who would never bother to learn to utilize shutter-speeds and aperture settings, but rather was intended to appeal to serious photographers who demand a tough, rugged camera. Nikon believed that advanced photographers were not interested in every possible automated bell and whistle, but rather in high quality and great worksmanship.

 

The FM2 remained in production until 2001, long after many other complex electronic cameras from the 80s had left the market. Time has proven the FM2 to be very tough and reliable and it is regarded as one of the best built and rugged mechanical 35 mm cameras of all time. Many professional photographers continue to use the FM2 as a backup camera, both because of its ruggedness and because it is capable of full operation with all features except the light meter without a battery.

 

Nikon : FM-2n - Cassis, France . film : AGFA - ultra 50