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Our second featured interview in the photo.net interview series is
with David Julian, a pictorial photographer in Seattle, WA .
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Background
David Julian works as a professional photographer, illustrator,
designer and teaches annually at the Santa Fe Workshops. Working
as an artist in related fields, David creates images for galleries and
private collectors as well as illustrations for print and multimedia
companies.
The Interview
Photo.net met up with David and asked him a few questions.
1. Tell us about your experiences getting started as a professional photographer.
I began as most folks did in photography's pre-automatic days, by using a simple manual camera
to record where I went and what features I liked there. I was quite shy and therefore avoided
photographing people. I stuck to shooting macros, as I am a very detail-oriented person and love
insects and other natural fauna. As I began to take the camera camping and on road trips, I added
landscapes to my repertoire, keeping the best landscape photographers' work in mind to measure
myself against. I also drew ideas and made notes of images I wanted to find. I trained myself to
see more graphically, and learned to use the camera's features to obtain the results I desired.
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As I loved rich color and deep saturation, I shot only color
slide film and louped or projected the results for friends.
That grew as a source for critical praise and feedback,
helping me see what worked or what didn't in my images. It
also gave me lots of personal confidence- something I
lacked in my younger days. I never got around to taking any
photography courses, preferring to remain self-taught and
largely un-influenced by any mentors. I therefore never
optically printed my own black and white images, as most