Digital Photographs

Stepping Out

2024 - 2026

I made Stepping Out as a companion piece to Follow All Signs. After picking up a copy of Joel Meyerowitzs’s A Question of Color, I started thinking about binary decisions photographers face. Color or black and white? Candid or posed? Art or documentary? I found one of the choice’s most debated and divisive amongst photographers was: Analog or Digital? I felt less pressure put upon this decision from musicians. An artist might prefer protools over tape recording, or a grand piano over a synthesizer, but few I knew claimed one as definitively superior to the other. Which is right for me? So, I bought a used Canon 90D. In addition to changing format, I decided to step out on other dogmatic approaches I had adopted. I embraced zoom lenses, auto focus, longer focal lengths, aperture priority, seeking out events, and unfamiliar lighting conditions, compositions, and locations. Just like my first series, the title took on new meanings and I had an answer to my questions: I don’t know, it just depends man.