cover image ; untitled, 20"x 60" digital media on Aluminium, 2017.
adam schmetterer photography
Mounted Shooters of America M.S.O.A
Daffodils Studies no 1
Pictured below: Clouds and Meadow, 25"x36", digital HDR media on aluminium, 2017.
my artist statement
I invite my viewers on a possible journey of interpretation through my personal experience with life.
My goal is the presentation of a creative vision
I love photography because when immersed, I feel full and happy inside my heart and soul.
To have a feeling of being full inside, happy and serene is a rare experience.
That is not something anyone should pass up if they find it. I wish to share my experiences with everyone possible. Life is short. Carpe diem!
2021: Graduated from NAU- Northern Arizona University with a Bachelor Degree of Interdisciplinary Studies Summa Cum Laude
in Strategic Leadership.
2020: Graduated from Yavapai College with an AAFA, Associate in Arts of Fine Art
as well, achieved a Certificate of Photography
Cloud Study no 45 Rainbow in Moline, Iowa
Moline Iowa Rainbow, 16"x20", Digital Media on Aluminium,2017
This project had a goal of experiencing the "pre-visualization" techniques originated by Ansel Adams and Minor White.
One of the real "keys" to understanding photography ie; "pre-visualization" is to understand light.
We each represent a unique fingerprint in how we see. The future will reveal that :)
Ode to Pollack no 1
37"x68" latex and acrylic paint with various found objects on cardboard, 2017.
My main goal here was to achieve something of an homage to a great painter. I can relate with his tumultuous life.
As a photographer , staying fresh in all of the muse is of key importance.
Art in Achitecture
Architecture, all objects considered 3-d that serve a function.
Architecture images provide patterns and rhythm's in nature.
hdr experimental fine art
black eyed suzies, 16"x20", digital media on aluminium
This is an HDR automated Adobe Photoshop composite of 7 HDR images from an iPhone 6. So beautiful and full of texture and color these beautiful black-eyed-susies magically appear and disappear each fall semester around the Prescott Yavapai College Campus.
Cloud Studies
cloud no 34, 20"x45", digital media on aluminium
I have been studying how the light is affected from water vapors.
Various techniques I have at my fingertips via the digital darkroom of Photoshop allows for an even closer look!
daffodils 17-23
daffodils 17-23, 16"x16", digital media on aluminium
I have been blessed with a wife that likes gardening. Her Daffodils come up each year and I document them differently with each opportunity I get no matter the light or of the time of day. Its my own personal experiment in photographing nature.
Contemporary Digital Multi-Media Fine Art
Consultations. Weddings, All events public and or private. Fine Art Digital Multi-Media Photography
Adam Schmetterer has been a photographer since the age of 12. He first learned photography as an art form through his Mother. By age 13, he received his first camera: a 35 mm Pentax MX. He took photography throughout his high school years. In his Senior year independently took on the challenge of instructing and adding an "Experimental Photography Class" to his high schools’ curriculum, which still remains in place over 30 years later. He attended The School of Visual Arts in NYC. After which, began his internship with Sanborn, Perillo and Company, a highly experimental video production company.
For the following 5 years, Adam enjoyed being a Photo Editor and Photo Researcher with a New York City book packager which provided services to Simon and Schuster, Field Publications and United Features Syndicate & Charles Schultz. In 2008, he started his private photography business and remains currently the Owner and Photographer of Adam Schmetterer Photography based out of Prescott, AZ which he now calls home.
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CV Adam Schmetterer
Owner - Adam Schmetterer Photography
January 2005 - Present
We are a full service photographic on-site or studio digital fine art production company.
Consulting, Drone Photography (107Cert) , Portraits, Weddings, Journalism, Publishing.
2024 - Masters Degree Organizational Leadership - NAU - Summa Cum Laude
2020 - Bachelors Degree Strategic Leadership - NAU - Summa Cum Laude
2018 - Associate Fine Arts - Yavapai College - Prescott, AZ
2018 - Certificate in Photography - Yavapai College - Prescott, AZ
OLLI Facilitator - Yavapai College Campus, Prescott, AZ
Fall - 2 Fall 2016 The Oscher Lifelong Learning Center (OLLI)
I assist regular and professional photographers find out, "its Not About The Camera". I have been enjoying the banter with my students around what makes a good composition and what doesn't. Going over the basic components for better composition . It is a feeling inside we connect with. It has been scientifically proven we are hard wired to see certain ways since we were primates. Digital technology is allowing us these discoveries each and every day:)
Photographer - Elite Photographics
September 2005 - June 2011
Photographer & photographer assistant. set/portrait designer for schools, sports and day cares.