Craig Davis
Davis had always been interested in photography growing up and had been attracted to sports and areas that he had a personal passion for and interest in. Following another
career, and after having photographed various events on his own, he ventured into the life of a professional photographer.
His passion for sailing and other sports led him to working with a number of magazines worldwide and involvement in numerous America's Cup. As a photographer and writer,
he worked with magazines in the United States, Europe, the Far East, Africa and Australia-New Zealand. He covered NFL and college football, and cycling, in addition, to the
America's Cup and spent time working with Reuters.
He lived in France for the next ten years, and traveled extensively, to the US, throughout Europe and around the world on assignment and for clients. While there his
worked continued in the yachting and boating fields, and he was a photographer for Dennis Conner and his America's Cup campaign defense in 1995.
His work in Europe evolved based on the high end of the yachting market, as well as his proximity to locations like Cannes and Monaco.
He shot celebrities in the area,
as well as a number of Cannes Film Festivals and World Music Awards and Formula 1 races. He also continued his action work, with yachting, tennis, golf, and skiing,
sports he is passionate about and plays himself. He has shot the yachts of people like Larry Ellison (Oracle), Patrizio Bertelli (Prada) and many others.
Since returning to the United States he has continued with his sport photography and translated his work with large yachts to the field of architecture.
Following a request from local architect, he began shooting digitally and almost from the beginning he has shot all of his images in a RAW format.
Having used the RAW
format for the last three years, there have been problems in handling and processing RAW images. The first card I had was 196 Megabytes, so shooting RAW was hard,
because you got less than 30 images per card with a Canon D60 at that time. Shooting both, action and architecture, the fields are so different, the new Lexar cards
make handling the workflow easy. With the higher speed and Write Assisted technology, the new cards have really enhanced the field of digital photography. Using uniquely
Canon equipment for digital, the results are so uniform regardless of what body I may be shooting with, either the Canon D60 or 20D, with the hope of upgrading to the
1Ds Mark II, which I have been testing with.
Learn more at www.craigdavisphoto.com
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