We were lucky to catch up with Jerry Williams recently and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Jerry thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

I learn basic photography
early on I started shooting in 1976 as I continued to learn composition lighting and overall image creation it wasn’t until I made the transition to digital that I really started to understand the mechanics of photography.

If I had paid more attention to lighting and what really makes a good photograph I probably would have gotten better more quickly.

Having good math skills helps understanding how shutter speed F stops and what used to be ASA now ISO how they all work together to bring you the results your looking for.

I had to have a day job to support myself which left less time to perfect my craft. Time is essential in photography it takes a lot of time to study and learn. Technology it changes so fast that it’s hard to stay up and current on the latest trends.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I was born in Pinckney Michigan I grew up with photography as a kid using the Instamatic cameras 126 110 cartridge film.
I got into photography more seriously in 1976 when I picked up a canon AE-1 and a Mamyia 645 medium format camera.

I used those two cameras to shoot landscapers wildlife portraiture weddings macro and events. I did those types of photography until 2009 that is when film photography got too expensive to get processed and printed and everyone went to digital photography.

The love I had for photography was so deep that I decided to get a digital camera I purchased a Canon Rebel kit I shot with it for a while I found I needed more from a camera I moved up to a Canon 50D added a prime lens to the body. I continued shooting with the that camera for about 5 years.

I felt I was learning digital photography pretty well I decided to up grade to the Canon 5D mark iv I was so impressed with the images coming out of the camera I put together a studio a few more lenses practiced lighting for a year then started collaborating with models so I could really hone my craft.

Fast forward a few years I now have studio cameras portrait lenses plenty of seamless backdrops and studio lights to accommodate any type of shoot that may come up.

I now have specials on head shots group shots engagements on location shoots and events.

I created a special name for my photography sharpimage101 I use this for all my photography because I deliver fantastic colored or black and white images in a very short period of time like the name implies they are tack sharp and beautiful. One thing that I do is let the client see every image this helps the client decide on the best images for them.
The images we create are straight out of the camera most of the time with very little editing needed.

Anyone can see my work at sharpimage101.com my web page or IG at sharpimage101 and on FB Jerry Williams Photography please visit anyone or all of them

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

What I love the most about being a creative is using light in many different ways to create images that has never been seen before.

To tell a story about a nature scene a wild animal getting some food to survive to capture a beautiful sunset to create a special scene for a client that they would have never have gotten any other way.

I use the camera be it film or digital to capture a moment in time to show how beautiful things in life can be waterfalls, birds in flight, flowers in bloom, action shot at a sporting event, or a portrait of a model that makes him or her proud to show all the effort they put into creating the look they were going for.

I love to capture the world around me show everyone what I see in hopes to bring joy to someone that may not have the opportunity to see what I have seen in the way that I see it.

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

Society can support the artist and creative by trying to understand the amount of effort and education it takes to do what we do we study we train we practice we try to master the art.

A lot of time effort and money went into creating the art we truly love society has to understand art isn’t cheap in this day and age of digital photography the artist that put the time effort money and education into learning how to make really good art we should be able to be compensated for all are efforts.

We as creatives love what we do we hope that society will understand that it’s not easy to make it as a creative let us show you the amount of heart we put into are craft please show support for all creatives.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://sharpimage101.com
• Instagram: sharpimage101
• Facebook: Jerry Williams Photography