Tony Savino

Tony Savino has been imaging since being a teenager in the late 1960s. The number one photography love is scenic photography. Most of the imagery is from throughout the Midwest and some from the Southwest.  He has won many awards for photo contests.  The main focus is scenic photography; however, other subjects are fun, too.  Some commercial product work, weddings, and portraiture will round out his portfolio.  Every possible graphic arts and photography class was taken while in school.   

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In Tony’s teenage years, he originally started out with a 35mm fixed lens camera from a discount store, then to a 35mm SLR, with a 55mm and 135mm lens to broaden my range as a gift from his parents in 1968.  Later he added a wide angle lens, and there were many new things to adventure and experiment. Other lenses were added to the bag of tools.  A 400mm lens was added, as a gift, for helping some friends, a 70-210mm zoom, filters, and other experimentation.  Wide angle photography would become his favorite form of photography with the scenic imaging topping his list.

 

Now on his fourth DSLR (digital single lens reflex) with a wide range of lenses the world is full of new images and the darkroom has become the computer (he had a dark room from about 1968 to 2000).  Today’s methods of processing are now at the laptop, or desktop.

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Tony will occasionally use film to image.  Film gives a whole different aspect of photography.  With the use of a roll of film or two there are finite number of exposures, so one really need to think about and plan the steps, as not to waste film. With today’s cameras one can shoot hundreds of images in less than a minute, toss the inadequate, and save a few.  Of course today’s digital cameras continue to get larger capacities and continue to obsolete film, but consider if film can ever be completely replaced.  One of his last scenic sessions used film, and it brings out that different challenge.  When imaging with digital one can take as many images as one wants and simply discard many; when imaging with a roll of 24 exposures one needs to be more aware, more critical, and it makes a person return to a discipline where every image counts.