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People: Photos Reveal An Eye for Detail
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| Tom Doyle and one of his photos |
January 08, 2007
When Tom Doyle scouts a location for his next photograph, he uses some of the skills honed during 33 years of detective work in the NYPD.
“You are always looking at a place and thinking about it,” Doyle says, “just like a good police officer, you are always observing.”
Doyle describes how he kept going to the back orchard at Jones Farm for a year before he starting shooting the moonrise. His reward was a shot that silhouetted the peach trees in a counter pose to the highlands in the distance.
That photo and others will be on display at a new exhibit of his work opening Tuesday, January 9, at Cornwall Town Hall. A sampling of his photos appears at right.
Doyle moved to Cornwall four years ago after retiring from the city police force and after touring the American West in a motor home. It was out amid the dramatic landscape of the west that he started pursuing landscape photography with a passion.
He reads a lot and studies a lot about how to get the most out of his 35mm camera. He shoots slide film, which when processed gives the most accurate rendering of his exposures.
“For every really good shot you get, you get 50 that don’t cut it,” Doyle explains. “I look at the shots on a slide projector and ninety-nine percent of them I throw away.”
He took of a photo of the Cornwall-on-Hudson landing last July about 15 minutes before sunrise. The pink and blue water is amazingly still, a result, he explains, of the slow shutter speed. Any stationary object is crystal clear.
Doyle says that one of the things that drew him to the Cornwall area was the natural beauty of the Hudson Highlands. “I try to do their beauty justice by waiting for the light that complements the scene,” he says.
His photos will be on display at Cornwall Town Hall until February 9.
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