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About Bill Lindsey...
My Grandfather was an amateur photographer and liked to make 3D stereoscope viewers to view his three dimensional
photographs. I liked to play with the unusually shaped lenses that he used for his viewers. Bringing them up
close to my eye, I could observe objects placed in front of them and by twisting the lenses from side to side:
I could distort whatever I looked at to suit my imagination. Some of the lenses were spheres that he used to
make his wide-angle cameras. These too provided hours of fascination for me. When I put them up to my eyes
and looked inside at the spectral highlights, I would be visually transformed into another world.
Slowly turning each sphere and imagining myself in these strange worlds of glass. He was a quiet Renaissance man.
He always wanted to build his own cameras that he used in his portraits and scenes that he photographed.
He loved light and especially the way light would skim across surfaces; revealing textures and depth to whatever
it touched. I think I inherited this way of seeing light. My first camera was a Kodak Brownie Holiday.
It used 127-size film and shot with a square format.
My Uncle sent me a film developing kit for my tenth birthday. It was complete with chemicals, paper and a
printing frame to make contact prints. From then on, I was hooked.
Today, I shoot mostly digital for my product work; with a 20-80 mixture of black & white and color.
I love to experiment with different kinds of lenses and seeing things in a different way. (I’m left handed)
to involve myself inside the image, not just look at it. I’m always trying to do some kind of special effects
with my photography. One of my favorite techniques is painting with light. This technique takes a lot of
concentration and time to do it right, so it isn’t something to enter into for the instant gratification type.
Panorama Photography
Have you ever seen a photo that is really wide and seems to take in a sweeping view?
Panorama photos are one of the latest trends in photography thanks to computer software editing programs.
Also, thanks to my many years of professional photography experience I have been able to produce stunning
panoramas of landscapes, seascapes; and wide interiors of buildings for discerning customers.
Photo Stitching Software
Photo Stitching (Panorama) Software is very different from one program to the next and quite often the users
result will vary.
For the past five years we have been experimenting with several different software programs and have settled
on two different packages. We have mastered the art and science of photo stitching. Photo stitching is the
oldest method of image assembly and when utilized properly our panoramic programs produce by far the very
best panorama we could possibly make. When cameras are not setup properly, lots of post processing time is
spent editing images.
What really makes our Panorama images different is that we have spent countless hours practicing our craft
and what we have ended up with is a way to make astounding images like no other.
For examples of the latest Panorama images, click here.
The World Wide Web
A while back, only local customers were seeing my work. I was tired of trying to decide whether to make
prints of my work to show clients or to use slides. I decided to use the electronic medium as my portfolio.
As my client base has grown, so has my audience on the Internet. The daily exposure to my work has multiplied,
and I receive e-mail from interested people wanting to see more along with photography students wanting to
learn about my techniques or asking for advice.
Most of my work today is a combination of straight photography, and digital images merging to form a digital
stock library for use as my customers needs arise. I am making a commitment to photograph at least one
subject per week from a list of stock photo subjects, and digitizing them to my library.
I am trying to communicate ideas, points of view and visual technology to merge together into art and science.
I find these two disciplines are converging to become the new visual frontier in our contemporary world.
Going deeper
My work centers on composition, motion, color, portraiture, and lighting that has both content and context
implications for the viewer.
My customers are looking for the new and unusual, rich with form and function. They are a combination of
technical and creative art buyers, directors, editors, and writers looking for an outlet of usable images
at a reasonable price.
Interactive projects
I am presently working on a mixed media project, which includes a sense of the passage of time with
interactivity through a virtual time tunnel. This project will send the viewer through a gallery of special
effects complete with stereo sound and my latest photo-illustration.
Projects I love to do
I love to travel for assignments profiling artists, illustrating their life styles.
The photography of food has always fascinated me and is at the top of my wish list.
Special effects photography and abstractions done on the Internet is an interactive project that is now being
done as a work in progress.
Barn owl ( Tyto Alba ) dossier’
It started out simple: Accompany wildlife Biologist to New Jersey and photograph several barn owls along with
their habitats. Take slides and bring along a video camera to record flight patterns at night etc.
After spending a considerable amount of time living among mosquitoes, and camping out in a number of barns, I
had acquired a sizable amount of slides, photographs, videos, sound recordings and facts about this night
hunter: to complete a dossier’ on the Common Barn owl ( Tyto Alba ).
This collection includes detailed studies of eyes, talon, feathers, drawings of skeletal structures,
close-ups of wings and studies written about this incredible bird.
I have completed a video targeted for children filled with facts about the barn owl to help make them aware
of how they can encourage others to protect this endangered species.
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Bill Lindsey, Photographer
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