Your Bio
Hello and Welcome to my site.
I've been involved with photography for over 30 years. My first experiences were with black and white photography, developing the film and prints in the bathroom at age 12. During high school, I worked for one of the first one-hour labs in Louisiana. Through college I was employed as a sports photographer for LSU, worked for a weekly Baton Rouge newspaper, custom printer at a photolab, and was head photographer for the LSU yearbook, "The Gumbo." Currently, my photography is centered around my 8 and 9 year olds' events, with occasional portrait or glamour photos by appointment. I maintain a full studio in my home; the darkroom is sadly abandoned.
I enjoy all aspects of photography and have experience in every format from 35mm to 8x10 view cameras. The change to digital has been slow as the first cameras I tried were too slow and of too low resolution. Over the past 5 years I've made a gradual switch to shoot only digital photography and am currently using a Nikon D3 and D-300.
It's taken a while to get this web site up; to all of you waiting for pictures, thanks for your patience. I plan to work backwards through my digital archive of 30,000 pictures and get them online this summer. I am hoping to get 1-3 games edited per week. I plan to work backwards through the archive while staying current with the games I'm shooting now. It takes 1-2 hours to edit the photos from each game so be patient and keep checking back!
While I try to get shots of all the kids, I do concentrate on my kids and their classmates. If you don't find your child's photo, point them out to me at the field and I'll try to get some shots.
See you at the ball field!
Sincerely,
Joe Travis
I've been involved with photography for over 30 years. My first experiences were with black and white photography, developing the film and prints in the bathroom at age 12. During high school, I worked for one of the first one-hour labs in Louisiana. Through college I was employed as a sports photographer for LSU, worked for a weekly Baton Rouge newspaper, custom printer at a photolab, and was head photographer for the LSU yearbook, "The Gumbo." Currently, my photography is centered around my 8 and 9 year olds' events, with occasional portrait or glamour photos by appointment. I maintain a full studio in my home; the darkroom is sadly abandoned.
I enjoy all aspects of photography and have experience in every format from 35mm to 8x10 view cameras. The change to digital has been slow as the first cameras I tried were too slow and of too low resolution. Over the past 5 years I've made a gradual switch to shoot only digital photography and am currently using a Nikon D3 and D-300.
It's taken a while to get this web site up; to all of you waiting for pictures, thanks for your patience. I plan to work backwards through my digital archive of 30,000 pictures and get them online this summer. I am hoping to get 1-3 games edited per week. I plan to work backwards through the archive while staying current with the games I'm shooting now. It takes 1-2 hours to edit the photos from each game so be patient and keep checking back!
While I try to get shots of all the kids, I do concentrate on my kids and their classmates. If you don't find your child's photo, point them out to me at the field and I'll try to get some shots.
See you at the ball field!
Sincerely,
Joe Travis
