About Images by Cole Scott
Q&A: COLEMAN SCOTT MOFFETT (Cole Scott)
HOW DID YOU GET STARTED?
I got my first look through a viewfinder when I was seven or so and came across an old 8mm movie camera. I fell in love with still photography in my early twenties, after inheriting cameras, lenses and equipment from my nature photographer uncle.
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY?
Over the years, I've worked in film, video and digital. I like landscape, floral, natural light portraiture and black & white. I still do some commercial work too. Abstract and conceptual images seem to offer me the most creative latitude and I'm doing a fair amount of computational imaging......a collaboration between my camera and my computer.
DO YOU HAVE A GOAL FOR YOUR WORK?
To create distinctive images that others enjoy and, hopefully, draw something from.
WHAT IMPACT HAS DIGITAL EQUIPMENT HAD ON YOUR WORK?
Digital cameras and computer software have allowed me to broaden my view of photography. That said, I depend heavily on the techniques I leaned with film. Overall, I'd say the attempt to create an image I like and believe in supersedes any allegiance I have to a particular set of tools.
HOW ABOUT A FAVORITE QUOTE?
"Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each much holds its own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses."
---Arnold Newman
HOW DID YOU GET STARTED?
I got my first look through a viewfinder when I was seven or so and came across an old 8mm movie camera. I fell in love with still photography in my early twenties, after inheriting cameras, lenses and equipment from my nature photographer uncle.
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY?
Over the years, I've worked in film, video and digital. I like landscape, floral, natural light portraiture and black & white. I still do some commercial work too. Abstract and conceptual images seem to offer me the most creative latitude and I'm doing a fair amount of computational imaging......a collaboration between my camera and my computer.
DO YOU HAVE A GOAL FOR YOUR WORK?
To create distinctive images that others enjoy and, hopefully, draw something from.
WHAT IMPACT HAS DIGITAL EQUIPMENT HAD ON YOUR WORK?
Digital cameras and computer software have allowed me to broaden my view of photography. That said, I depend heavily on the techniques I leaned with film. Overall, I'd say the attempt to create an image I like and believe in supersedes any allegiance I have to a particular set of tools.
HOW ABOUT A FAVORITE QUOTE?
"Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each much holds its own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses."
---Arnold Newman