Patrick Krohn

Good day, I’m Patrick Krohn, a nature and panorama photographer in South Carolina. 

I’ve been fascinated about pictures since fairly an early age. Nonetheless, I actually fell in love with the medium after I was sixteen and residing in New Zealand.

A good friend lent me his 35mm SLR, I feel it could have been an Olympus, and it was simply capturing and growing photographs of my classmates and a few fairly extraordinary issues round city. 

I began learning artwork in school in California, and it didn’t take lengthy for my pictures instructor and me to understand that my curiosity was extra in documentary and photojournalism. I then transferred to the College of Missouri, the place I earned my journalism diploma.

My first two jobs had been with small newspapers out West in Utah and Montana. I used to be given a variety of freedom in what I shot and the way I went about it.

One factor I discovered early on was to maintain my package easy. A part of that was economics, cameras and lenses are costly, and newspaper homeowners are low cost. The opposite half was simply not wanting to hold an excessive amount of gear round all day.

I wished to be that fly on the wall and never draw consideration to myself, and fewer gear helped me transfer round to remain close to the motion however not be in folks’s approach.

Outdoors of sporting occasions, I hardly ever used multiple digital camera, with a Nikon FM2 and a beat-up 35mm and 50mm as the first lenses I managed to get by.

My lenses had been quickly upgraded to a Nikkor 35mm f/1.4 and a 180mm f/2.8. I nonetheless have this tools and use it for present and inform in my picture lessons.

The newspapers had a 20mm and the trusty 300mm f/2.8 that I usually used for occasions and for a distinct look.

Throughout this time, I used to be additionally fortunate sufficient to do just a few freelance gigs for the likes of The New York Instances, Sports activities Illustrated, Forbes, and Enterprise Week.

I then moved to a newspaper in Augusta, GA, to be the picture editor, however after two years there, I noticed the newspaper enterprise beginning to shrink, so I left. I used to be in gross sales for twelve years after that, and my present day job is as a pricing analyst for a producer in South Carolina.

Throughout these years, I all the time did some pictures, although principally with completely different Canon point-and-shoot.

In 2016, I made a decision to present myself a DSLR. It was a Canon T6i with 18-55mm and 55-250mm lenses.

In 2019, I believed I’d take my pictures extra critically once more, and I pushed myself to {photograph} virtually day by day. I nonetheless have my full-time pricing job, so this meant discovering issues on my technique to and from the workplace and even in my entrance yard.

That fall, I visited a small park referred to as the Carolina Bay Nature Protect, and that’s after I began a love affair with the bald cypress timber.

I proceed to work on a venture documenting the rhythms and flows of the seasons and the way they have an effect on these timber.

Canon EOS R – in 2021 I satisfied myself to improve to this digital camera as I wished higher high quality with my photographs. I did a load of analysis and determined that all the entry-level mirrorless cameras are fairly comparable in worth and high quality, and the Canon was my alternative.

The deal maker for me was the Vari-angle contact display. I discovered that I virtually by no means used the eyepiece anymore; it was all dwell view for me.

I usually had my digital camera both on the bottom or approach up within the air or holding it out over some water with one hand and utilizing the opposite to carry onto a tree to maintain from falling in. The display offers me the chance to see how the shot is lining up.

I additionally actually love the touchscreen menus. When I’m testing a scene, I’ll usually rapidly make changes to the white steadiness and alter over to monochrome to see if that’s the most effective for what I’m seeing.

I like having two separate dials for the shutter velocity and aperture. I keep in mind having to push a button to vary the aperture on the 6Ti, which was a drag.

Canon RF 24-240mm f/4-6.3 – this lens is on about ninety % of the time. 

Canon RF 85mm f/2 Macro – the macro lens I simply needed to have since I usually discover some attention-grabbing issues in my yard I wish to stand up near.

Ok&F Idea round polarizer – these are saved on every lens more often than not, and after I desire a longer shutter velocity, I additionally use the Ok&F Idea variable ND filter.

Joilcan H80 – I like this tripod as a result of I can get it virtually flat on the bottom and likewise get my digital camera eighty inches into the air. There have been occasions I’ve gone from one excessive to the opposite in just a few moments.

Domke – my trusty bag that I’ve had for the reason that late Nineties. My spouse has needed to sew up one of many seams lately, and the strap could should be changed once more quickly.

It’s a bit of larger than I actually need, nevertheless it matches my again and hip prefer it’s a part of my physique. The umbrella is a must have piece of kit because it rains a good quantity in South Carolina.

I do take pleasure in capturing within the rain, so a pleasant, large golf umbrella protecting me, my digital camera, and my tripod are key.

Photoshop – for post-processing utilized in a really minimal approach. I attempt to hold the ultimate picture as near what I noticed after I took the picture.

Lastly, chances are you’ll be asking why the identify  “One-Eyed Canine Studios.” I wished to do one thing a bit of completely different than simply my very own identify, and we’ve got a really outdated, one-eyed rescue canine named Rogue.

So there you have got it, a kinda, enjoyable and distinctive identify.

My package may be very easy as a result of my outlook and strategy to this medium has all the time been fairly easy.

All of us simply work with what gear we’ve got, and I take pleasure in attending to play with mine virtually day by day.

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