Keith Horvath

Did you ever have one of those days where you weren't sure of the direction life was taking you, yet you knew, absolutely, this was right and no one could talk you out of this decision?

When I was 11 my Dad bought a slightly used Honeywell Pentax SLR. There was a 50mm and a Soligor wide angle second lens. He gave it to me and I was in black & white film heaven!

Today, as a community college, wedding studio, seminar & workshop educated self-taught photographer.

My early learning was the chemical smelling black & white darkroom middle and junior high, high school newspaper and yearbook staffs. Later I worked five years at a full service wedding and portrait studio run by a great guy and model photographer Wes Adams.

We attended seminars and workshops by Charles Lewis, Monte Zucker, Tabor Horvath, Denis Reggie, David Ziser and others. This was the 1980's and the early careers of most. The classes were smaller and more personal then.

Today, my experience, expertise and prior photographic work has given me the confidence and know how to take one most any type of challenge. What once took me an hour or two now takes ten minutes. This is about a professional who has worked hard and demanded excellence form himself.

All the technical knowledge and fancy equipment has never turned a good person into a great photographer. There is only one thing separating the part time and causal picture taker.

This is the ability to see and understand lights' effect on the subject as related to what I am looking for to create or re-create from the only place no one can ever visit, see or understand...my minds' eye.