About Dave Black

I love to make photographs. It is as simple as that. I love to make photographs that draw the audience into a captured moment in time.

My education in graphic design and studio drawing lends itself perfectly to this idea of not only capturing the moment, but to do so in such a way that it draws the audience in for a longer and closer look.

While the moment attracts the attention of the viewer, my goal is to hold their attention as well. It is the perfection of the use of light, shadows, background and color, combined with high resolution quality that will keep the audience. I approach each image with these principals in mind.

Always striving for perfection means always learning. They are one in the same. One of the best ways to learn is to teach. I have been instructing workshops and lecturing about photography since 1986. Lately, the hot topic has been digital. I have been using digital exclusively since 1999 and I am convinced of its benefits to both the photographer and the client.

Today the photographic industry is in a wonderful transition. Photographers can produce better quality and have more options to create new and exciting images while the client can enjoy those same advancements and faster production. We all win.

This website was produced for many reasons. The examples of my work in Olympians, Sports Scene, Advertising/ Commercial, and Sports Classics will illustrate my career body of work. While Workshop at the Ranch and On The Road will teach and illustrate the techniques and industry of the working professional photographer.

Clients and Publications Dave's work has appeared in a variety of magazines such as Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek, ESPN, Parade and The Wall Street Journal. And with such publishers such as Simon & Schuster, Bantam Double Day, Pindor Press, Hyperion, Scribner, and Broadway. Television shows on ABC Sports, CBS Sports, E Entertainment, NBC Sports, and the award winning ESPN Classics also use Dave's work. Some of his clients include Chevy, McDonalds, Reebok, Hallmark, Coca Cola, Xerox, Nikon, Visa, Johnson & Johnson, Nikon, Kodak, NFL Properties, and The United States Olympic Committee. Dave is a regular staff member and featured speaker with several workshops including Rich Clarkson's Sports Photography Workshop with Sports Illustrated, Photography at the Summit with National Geographic, the Digital Summit with Nikon, Nikon's Churchill Downs Photojournalism Seminars, Sports Shooter Workshop, Nikon College Series and a variety of lectures and workshops at various colleges and universities. Dave has been a featured speaker at Photokina.

Please enjoy browsing these pages and viewing the images, and feel free to contact me via email.

Thanks,

Dave Black.