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Show B2 Castle Valley Review, February 2009 Continued from Previous Page Carbon High's Ryan Rasmussen is caught in mid-flight in one of Kimball Johnson’s photographs. captured and what camera he used to capture it. In fact, he has focused his spare time on the art of photography for so long that he admits he has trouble looking at anything without wondering what kind of photograph it would make. “Now I can’t think of anything without thinking about a picture. I’m always looking at what kind of picture it could be. I look through a magazine and there may be a picture of a pretty girl and I would look at the pretty girl, but I’m also looking at the shadows in the photograph. How did they take it, what camera did they use, what was their F-stop, what was their shutter speed?” he said. The nursing instructor at CEU by day, Johnson admits that he has become something of an addict when it comes to photography. But it has been an addiction that has developed slowly over the years and didn’t really take hold until he moved to Price 14 years ago. “When I was a kid I was always interested in Emery County Fair Vendors Wanted The Emery County Fair is now accepting applications for Food and General Vendors for the Emery County Fair wich will be held on August 6, 7, and 8, 2009. To be an exclusive food vender, you must have your application into the Emery County Recreation office by March 20, 2009. You may pick up an application at the Emery County Recreation office located at 75 South 400 East, Castle Dale, UT between the hours of 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. or go to our website at www.emerycounty.com/fair/vendor. For more information: contact Emery County Recreation at 435-381-2108 photography but I could never afford the camera,” Johnson admitted. After he bought his first Canon SLR camera, his love of photography really took hold and after arriving at CEU he found an outlet for his new passion, and encouragement as well. “The person who said something that meant the most to me was Don Burge. When I was first here at the college I had these pictures in my office and Don came in and asked how long I had been a professional photographer and I said I’m not a professional. He said ‘wow, you’ve sure got an eye’ and that kind of catapulted me into wanting to take more pictures.” As he captured events and people with his cameras he was looking for an avenue to share the photographs he had taken, which led to a couple of problems at CEU. “I wanted to share these pictures and at that time it was very early internet. I got to the college in 1995 and most of the people still had computers with 20 megabyte hard drives. Well, I didn’t know the difference between a jpeg and a tiff, but I knew I had a scanner. I scanned the pictures as a tiff and decided I wanted to share these pictures and it was 10 megabytes worth of pictures. So I uploaded these pictures and sent it out as an email. Well, I crashed the computer system at the college. Over half the people at the college couldn’t get on their computer because I had filled up their hard drives,” Johnson said. Eric Mantz, the chief information officer at CEU, came to Johnson’s (and perhaps the college’s) rescue and set Johnson up with a web site for him to upload his pictures. 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And he does so free of charge, which is virtually unheard of. “If you go to my website, anything I’ve posted I don’t get paid for. If I’ve been paid for them, I don’t post them on the site,” Johnson said. The photographs that he does get paid for are the wedding photos he is hired to take. His wedding photographs are the work that keeps his photography addiction in the black, and makes it possible for him to continue searching out better and better camera equipment. His love of sports photography and shots of people going about their everyday life is something that developed over time. When he first started taking photographs, he didn’t focus on people at all. “I wasn’t really comfortable taking people pictures and I think that’s how a lot of us start. So I started out taking scenery pictures. It takes a different eye to take pictures of people and I’ve tried to develop that eye over the years,” Johnson said. Johnson said he started taking sports photos when he decided one day that he wanted to get a picture of a slam dunk in a basketball game. “That was my first goal. The first time I tried it I was in the audience and everything was blurry because I wasn’t shooting at a fast enough shutter speed. So I thought I would try from underneath the basket and pretty soon it had become an addiction. I don’t get paid for the sports. I’m not obligated to take them and it’s fun. I’m looking to capture the event. I like the historical aspect. I like taking pictures of football games. I like basketball, it’s fast paced. I like volleyball, but you have to think about each one of those sports differently,” he said. The shot that he hasn’t gotten after years of photography is a shot of a mountain lion or a bear in the wild in Emery or Carbon County. He’s still hoping for the chance to get that shot. The cameras Johnson said he uses most often are either a Canon 5D or a Canon 50D. His transition in 2001 from film photography to digital has been the fuel that has kept his hobby going. In the days when he was shooting with a film camera he would try and limit his photos to three or four rolls because of the expense. Today, with his digital cameras, he said he shoots between 30 and 40,000 pictures a year and in the basement studio at his home he has seven DVD cases full of pictures. Johnson said his wife, Toni, their children, and five grandchildren haven’t grown weary of his photography obsession. In fact, quite the opposite is the case. “According to my wife I didn’t take enough pictures of the kids,” he said with a smile. |