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My name is Billy Rood. I am a filmmaker, photographer, musician & cinematographer in Chicago, IL. This is my blog of all things that inspire me and the latest news and updates on my career. You can contact me by email at billyrood@enderfilms.com or at the links below. Follow me on Twitter @billyrood

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    PHOTOGRAPHER - Tom Chambers I don’t know why but this guys work speaks to me on a very artificial, dreamlike, fantasy, & just artsy fartsy kind of way.

    PHOTOGRAPHER - Tom Chambers

    I don’t know why but this guys work speaks to me on a very artificial, dreamlike, fantasy, & just artsy fartsy kind of way.



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    June 07, 2009, 4:57pm

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    PHOTOGRAPHER - Tom Chambers

    PHOTOGRAPHER - Tom Chambers



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    June 07, 2009, 4:56pm

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    PHOTOGRAPHER - Tom Chambers Tom Chambers was born on a farm in the religiously conservative area of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. After high school he joined the Navy and spent a year on a patrol boat base in Vietnam which profoundly affected his outlook on life. Chambers earned a BFA from the Ringling School of Art and Design. His work has been widely exhibited throughout the United States. He has received numerous awards and honors for his work including a 2000-2001 Fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and a 2005-2006 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts fellowship. Tom on his work: As an artist I have created photo montages to reveal a personal vision about the nature of children, animals, and their interactions. These images illustrate the fleeting moods that can’t be captured by a traditional camera or seen by the naked eye. I initially sketch out a concept or idea I have for an image. I photograph each piece of the image using a me- dium format film camera, generally a Mamiya Pro TL or a Fuji Rangefinder. I am careful to make sure the light intensity and direction are similar in each of these shots. This process may take a month depending on how quickly I am able to get all the shots and sort through them picking the ones which work best together. “Pieces” of the final image may include the landscape or background, often shot in sections, as well as the sky, a human figure, an animal, or another object. The processed film is scanned at a high resolution, approximately 80 megabytes per frame. Then, I use Photoshop software with a Macintosh computer to combine each “piece”, thus creating the final image. Lastly, the image is printed with an Epson printer using archival inks and paper.

    PHOTOGRAPHER - Tom Chambers

    Tom Chambers was born on a farm in the religiously conservative area of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. After high school he joined the Navy and spent a year on a patrol boat base in Vietnam which profoundly affected his outlook on life. Chambers earned a BFA from the Ringling School of Art and Design. His work has been widely exhibited throughout the United States. He has received numerous awards and honors for his work including a 2000-2001 Fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and a 2005-2006 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts fellowship.

    Tom on his work:

    As an artist I have created photo montages to reveal a personal vision about the nature of children, animals, and their interactions. These images illustrate the fleeting moods that can’t be captured by a traditional camera or seen by the naked eye.

    I initially sketch out a concept or idea I have for an image. I photograph each piece of the image using a me-
    dium format film camera, generally a Mamiya Pro TL or a Fuji Rangefinder. I am careful to make sure the light
    intensity and direction are similar in each of these shots.

    This process may take a month depending on how quickly I am able to get all the shots and sort through
    them picking the ones which work best together. “Pieces” of the final image may include the landscape or
    background, often shot in sections, as well as the sky, a human figure, an animal, or another object. The processed film is scanned at a high resolution, approximately 80 megabytes per frame. Then, I use Photoshop
    software with a Macintosh computer to combine each “piece”, thus creating the final image. Lastly, the image
    is printed with an Epson printer using archival inks and paper.



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    June 07, 2009, 4:50pm

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