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It may have been Bauhaus architect, Mies van der Rohe who said, “Less is more,” but it took D.A.Wagner to do more with even less.

 
 


About

Since 1984, D.A.Wagner has worked with digital technology, first as an award-winning commercial photographer (some of the work you see here) and now as “Lightroom Guy,”a travel photographer, private photography coach and blogger. 

In addition to decades of professional photography experience, he spent 10 years at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology as an adjunct professor. He’s one of only 240 Adobe Certified Lightroom Experts worldwide and teaches Lightroom (and photography!) like few others, with an easy style and sense of humor.

Portfolios

Launch

Launch

Photo Illustration

Photo Illustration

Liquids

Liquids

Travel

Travel

Food

Food

Launch Portfolio

I scrapped 20 years of work to build this new “still life” portfolio. As a guideline, I very loosely committed myself to Richard Avedon’s, “Series of No’s” to simplify my work down to a few essentials: simple lighting, simple composition and execution.




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Liquids

I capture liquids triggering a high-speed strobe as they pass through a laser beam. Unlike trial and error captures, this process always sets off the flash and camera at just the right millisecond in time. The water is unpredictable, the timing impeccable.



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Photo Illustration

Before I started shooting digital photography, I hand made props and sets, shooting multiple exposures using multiple large-format film cameras to create my special effects images. In ’84, I got my first computer and never looked back. Today, my work production techniques are complex, but the results are simple, elegant visuals, often using the techniques learned from the analog days.

Escalator to the Heavens

Newton's Cradle

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Food

I start and end every day with food, so why not shoot it?

Big Burger
Thumbnail Carrots
String Beans and Onions
Standing Garlic Scape
Good Eggs
Kumquats
Stalk of Brussels Sprouts with head

Mustard Greens
Gyoza in Hot Oil
Lamb Chops with Falling Salt
Asparagus with Falling Water

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Travel

Since becoming “Lightroom Guy,” I’ve started traveling around the world to explore possibilities for my future travel workshops.

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Munnar, India
Oxford, UK
Pantathenaic Stadium, Athens, Greece
Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Souk Waqif, Doha, Qatar

Sealine, Qatar
Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
Matera, Italy
Dried Fish, Bangkok, Thailand
Mother & Daughter, Bangkok, Thailand

Vendor, Bangkok, Thailand
Periyar National Park, Kerala, India
Chinese Fishing Nets, Kochin, India
Alleppy Backwater, Kerala, India
Laundress, Kerala, India

Florence, Italy
Siena, Italy
Hong Kong, China
Hong Kong, China
Hong Kong, China

Camargue, France
Reyðarfjörður, Iceland
Stykkishólmur, Iceland
Barnaborgir, Iceland
Vik,Iceland

 

 

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    I was born in the wilds of Flatbush, Brooklyn, sometime during the 20th century. In the years following, I discovered cameras and girls, however not necessarily in that order. I’m a semi-accomplished juggler and have been known to build my own electronic devices and hand make rigs and props to accomplish my goals. I’m also a 2012 Hasselblad Masters Finalist with work in the permanent collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

    Over the course of my career (so far, anyway), I’ve photographed slaughterhouses, low and high fashion, prescription pharmaceuticals, some celebrities and shot a documentary film about ancient Buddhist caves in China.

    The riskiest thing I’ve ever done? Having four impacted molars removed without anesthesia.

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