Well to start off my Name is Eric and I am the owner
and main Photographer of Fat Man Photography. I specialize in
Astrophotography, Fine Art Photography and cosplay photography.
I must admit that I never thought about
becoming a photographer for most of my life. I thought that I would
focus on my work on film as a Foley artist and lighting director. On
the side of working on films I was extremely interested in astronomy.
Space is just so incredibly beautiful and interesting and the physics
of it all are just mind blowing. Every summer I would make frequent
trips out to Joshua Tree in California to take advantage of the dark
skies to see the beautiful milky way. Sometimes I would bring my
telescope and look at nebula's, planets and galaxy’s. One of these
adventures out there my friend Ryo Shiina a great DP brought out his
DSLR. We took some wide angle shots of the milky way and what I saw
blew my mind. I have seen images of the milky way in magazines and
articles but I never though that we would be able to create the same
shot with such ease.
The next visit we bought a adapter and hooked
the camera up to my telescope. The first shot was of Saturn and I was
not so satisfied with it. So we pointed my camera at Orion’s nebula
and then my jaw doped. With just one 30 second exposure the amount of
detail that we saw was amazing. You always here about how cameras and
lenses will never be as good as the human eye but with
astrophotography the camera is thousands of times better because,
thanks to long exposures we are able to capture the faintest details
of celestial bodies. That was all I needed to jump start my life as a
photographer. After a little practice and research I went out and
bought a DSLR and upgraded my telescope then started shooting. Some
of the palaces that I would go to for astrophotography had the most
beautiful landscapes so before the sun would set I would take my
camera around and start shooting. This then led to some nature
shooting, macro, long exposure, Ect and before I knew it I was
obsessed with all forms of photography.