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Subject: [Leica] Exciting News!
From: tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 12:56:17 -0500
References: <E010367C-B131-49EA-A48D-4B1F469D413A@chriscrawfordphoto.com>

Fantastic!!  That's exactly how grant money should be used!!

Good for you.

Tina

On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 12:45 PM Christopher Crawford <
chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:

> Last month, the Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne announced that
> they were offering grants of up to $2500 to help artists in Fort Wayne who
> have lost income due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant, called
> "Re-Imagining Your Artistic Practice," was to be used to pay for things
> that would help the funded artists make money during the pandemic. Examples
> they gave could include things like having a website built or buying
> equipment.
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> Before COVID, a big part of my income was teaching photography lessons to
> individuals. I stopped doing this because I don't want to meet with people
> and risk getting sick, as I have a history of getting nasty respiratory
> infections even before COVID. I have a tutorials website that includes
> written tutorials and videos where I teach a variety of photographic
> techniques, including film developing, scanning, and digital photo editing.
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> The videos that have me in them, like the film developing tutorials, don't
> look as good as they could because of poor lighting. The studio lighting I
> had was a set of studio strobes, which are not suitable for video work; I
> needed a set of good LED studio lights, so I wrote a grant proposal asking
> for the money to buy some.
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> Last week, I received a check for $2500! I finally got a set of two lights
> and a couple of stands for them yesterday. I don't want to do any videos
> yet because I have been sick for more than a month now with a bronchial
> infection that just won't go away, despite repeated antibiotic treatments.
> So, I did a studio 'portrait' of some of my cameras, just to test the
> lights to see if they worked well and had good color rendering.
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> Here?s the photo I made:
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> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/examples/led-studio/images/3050053.jpg
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> Here's the setup I used to make the photo. Nothing fancy, just a quick
> shot on my dining room table.
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> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/examples/led-studio/images/3050017.jpg
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> Chris Crawford
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> Fine Art Photography
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> Fort Wayne, Indiana
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> 260-437-8990
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> https://chriscrawfordphoto.com  My portfolio
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> https://crawfordphotoschool.com Learn From Me
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