PPhotoArtique

Welcome!

Thanks for coming by! Take your time to look around. I've tried to include a wide variety of my photographic art: something for everyone, so to speak.

Over the past 30 years or so, I have taught hundreds of photography classes. Of course, "back in the day" we went beyond depth of field and shutterspeed combinations. We delved into the realm of "circles of confusion," "hyperfocal distance," and the Zone System.  

Today, with digital cameras making everyone a "photographer," these concepts have nearly disappeared. But not totally! Now we talk about histograms, white balance, shooting "raw," (no, that's not being naked while taking pictures!), and "noise."

It all makes photography as it was meant to be: dynamic, intriguing, and fraught with possibilities.

My mission in my photography and in the courses I teach is to move the photographer into the artistic end of the photographic spectrum: making the ordinary extraordinary; seeing what others only look at; and creating perspectives that others miss.

Fine Art Photography. Photography as Art. Photographic art. No matter how you put it, photography is an artistic expression of a captured moment in time. Now, not every picture is art; just as not every painting is artistic. But the potential is always lurking behind the shadow that falls just right, inside the light that streams across the subject, or in the perfect placement of components.

Ron Plasencia

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My interest in photography sprung from my Dad, who was an airplane mechanic at Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. His world was one of wrenches and grease; guns and ammo; and, surprisingly, photography. This grease-under-the-fingernails man could create marvelously beautiful photographs. His style would be called "minimalist" today I suppose. He just called it "keeping it simple."

Growing up in rural Clark County, Ohio, amidst corn fields split by the Little Miami River, afforded me a vast source of natural vistas. Today, 45 years later, living near the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, I still love to drink in the Splendor God has created for us; doing my best to capture moments of it, preserved in celluloid or translated into pixels.

"My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera’s eye may entirely change my idea."

– Edward Weston

"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created.  It is a major force in explaining man to man."  -Edward Steichen