{"id":8260,"date":"2024-08-22T10:46:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T16:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faberoptics.com\/images\/?p=8260"},"modified":"2024-08-28T23:06:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T05:06:51","slug":"hi-my-name-is-ben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faberoptics.com\/images\/hi-my-name-is-ben\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi, my name is Ben."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello, there. My name is Ben Faber. Thank you for checking out FaberOptics.com and this blog. I have a passion for learning and I intend to use this blog to share some of my personal adventure in learning to capture images&#8211;to share some of what I have learned along the way and to share new things that learn as I go (the adventure is far from over). This is my introductory post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been interested in photography since I was a kid. My dad had a Voigtl\u00e4nder 35mm camera and 3 lenses which fascinated me. There were a few occasions on which I was allowed to take the camera with me on field trips. As kids, my siblings and I enjoyed it when Dad set up the slide projector and gave us an opportunity to see images of some of the adventures he had before he had us&#8211;adventures that he captured with the Voigtl\u00e4nder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an aside, my dad&#8217;s B&amp;O (Bang and Olufsen) stereo system and its accompanying McIntosh XR-5 speakers played a role in developing my interest in music and high-fidelity audio. Some fruits of that interest can be seen at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faberacoustical.com\">FaberAcoustical.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In high school, my interest in photography branched into a correlated interest in video. Some time around my junior year, I talked my dad into buying a Sony Hi-8 video camera and a Macintosh Centris 650. With those tools, a VideoSpigot, and an early version of Adobe Premier, I managed to win a video contest with an anti-smoking video, produce a promo video for my hometown (it was for a class project and wasn&#8217;t actually used by the city&#8211;though it nearly resulted in a contract to produce something more serious&#8230;), and create a class video for my high-school graduating class. I think it was sometime after graduation that I had the opportunity to choose exactly how to spend the city&#8217;s budget for some new public access video equipment. More amateur films followed&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although I took a photography class in high school and a film class in college, I ultimately chose to pursue degrees in electrical engineering and physics, instead of photography or film. As a result, my skills as an artist have developed more slowly than they might have otherwise. In the last few years, though, opportunities to develop my talents as a photographer, along with my passion for it, have increased considerably. This website represents my desire and effort to keep that going. I have always enjoyed using both halves of my brain and I fully expect Faber Optics to reflect my passion for the intersection between science and art&#8211;between technical understanding and creative expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<input class=\"fooboxshare_post_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"8260\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, there. My name is Ben Faber. Thank you for checking out FaberOptics.com and this blog. 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