Carl Larsen

 

 

http://blog.telescopemediagroup.net/

 

Name: Carl Larsen

Hometown: St. Cloud, MN

Primary camera: Sony EX1 / Canon EOS 50D / Rebel T2i

Experience: 10 years

Qualifications: 30+ Telly (National) and Addy (Regional) Awards, host of Creative Cow After Effects Podcast, Adobe Certified Expert Photoshop.

Specialty: Motion Graphics, Photography for visual effects, Time Lapse, Landscape, Spherical Panoramas, Live production

Priceless photo op: My children’s births

Free advice: Shy people get nothing and that’s what they deserve – Aahron Rabinowitz

 

When we adopted our two sons from Ethiopia, I went primarily as a father, not a photographer. However, I was secretly hoping to get one image that summarized our entire adoption experience, and I got it. The picture is of my son Titus kicking a ball in a hallway at the adoption agency’s main offices in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He’s framed in the middle of the image with the perspective of the hallway blocking him in from each side. At the end of the corridor there was a window open to the outside. The image has a very strong contrast, and is keyed entirely by the sun from outside. It has a blue and green palette and he is frozen in the air as he chases the ball. He’s running from the darkness into light.

I love instructing for IPS because I’m a learner. There’s something remarkable about being able to share what you’ve learned with a student and see them grasp it for the first time. Good photography requires an internal dialogue: Why did I take this picture? What is my eye supposed to be looking at? How does this image make me feel? Instructing photography draws that dialogue to the outside. And sharing that conversation with a student is one of the most rewarding parts of IPS for me.

Since I come from a video background, I bring a unique perspective to photographic instruction. When I setup a shot, I’m not just thinking about the composition of a single frame, but how object relationships change through time and space as well.

I have two main photographic goals. One is never to stop learning. My second goal is to do whatever I can to train up the next generation of Christian media professionals. Partnering with IPS allows me to achieve both of these simultaneously.