Last week, the Touché Gallerie featured a photography exhibit titled “Point and Shoot," created by Robert Ferdinandt, a graduate student in the Technological Studies Department, who has been taking photographs for six years.
“They are a great way for me to capture the outdoors,” said Ferdinandt.
The photographs in the exhibit are primarily nature-themed, but “Point and Shoot” features a wide variety of subject matter. Shoes are set on a background of green grass, snow falls on a tractor and a pheasant flies off, an unwilling model.
Ferdinandt’s photographs also range from close-ups to landscapes, each with a unique magic. The landscapes feature wood paths and lighthouses. All the works are in vivid color. Ferdinandt’s personal favorite is “Cattails,” featuring the marsh plant in a close shot.
The title of the exhibit embodies the way the artist works.
“I never really know what I want to take a picture of until I get that urge to go out and just start shooting,” said Ferdinandt.
He arranged his exhibit based on this same kind of intuition, trying out several arrangements before finding one that felt right.
In a statement accompanying the exhibit, Ferdinandt writes, “The best camera out there is the one you have with you.”
This remark is another reminder of his “point and shoot” tactic. Ferdinandt used three different cameras for the works in the exhibit, but each turned out fabulous pictures in his hands.
“Point and Shoot” is as much a display of nature as it is of an artist’s talent. It is the flow of the subject that depicts Ferdinandt’s passion for both the outdoors and photography.
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