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Bob Kahn
Master Photographer
Certified Professional Photographer
Educator.Author

My love of photography began when I was a teenager.

Photography was a hobby of my entire family. Some of my family members even invented photography equipment. I was always around cameras.

My interest actually began in high school. I had a very "short" career on the football team that ended in a knee injury. I still wanted to be on the field "close to the action", and I got permission from the coach to take pictures from the sidelines. It didn't take long to learn it was safer taking pictures than being the smallest player on the team. One of my team members went on to play professionally for the NY Giants, so that gives you an idea of what I was dealing with.

Anyway, I lived across the river from New York City and enjoyed hopping on the train on weekends and taking pictures all over the city. I would create my images, make proof sheets, and show them to a high school teacher who also liked photography as a hobby. He taught me the fundamentals of composition, lines, angles, space, contrast etc.

My hobby turned into a career, but I always love to pick up my camera and wander around creating "Art". I don't really have any "style" I can describe to you. I have ideas about what I don't want in my pictures. When I look through the lens, if I don't like what I see I don't capture it. My pictures are usually one image I "visualize" of any scene. I don't shoot 100 pictures then look for a good one.
 

Over the years I earned my Master of Photography Degree from the Professional Photographers of America, as well as Certified Professional Photographer Degree, along with numerous awards for my Wedding Images, all created on real, everyday weddings, plus 3 images that were accepted into the Prestigious PPA Loan Collection.

In the late 90's I began teaching other photographers how to improve their skills through lectures and workshops, sponsored by the Fuji Film Company. I presented workshops in over 50 cities and 42 states, and taught "thousands" of photographers the craft of "Posing, Lighting, and Composition". People always say "So and so has an eye for photography". The truth is, the really good photographers have a "trained eye".

With the advances in digital cameras, some of the art is being lost to the computer. I have coined a term I think I tell the photographers who attend my workshops or purchase my educational DVD's.....

"Create in the camera, not in the Computer"

I love to create my portraits for people. Our craft has kind of lost its professionalism with the introduction of the digital cameras. Everyone is a photographer. Everyone can call themselves a "photojournalist", but not as easily call themselves "Portraitists".

Bob