All right! Well welcome back to Geeks R Sexy! It has been a while since we have
done the fourth Friday of the month show. I'm Jason LeDuc from Evil Genius
Leadership Consultants. I'm your host, talking about business in
Las Vegas, success in Las Vegas and all the things you need, whether you're a
business owner or not, to build your successful dreams here in Las Vegas.
Today I am here with Emily Wilson. She is a photographer. We met at a First Friday
gathering a couple of weeks ago and Emily and her family moved to Las Vegas
about six years ago. She, like most of us, are fascinated with the work being done
to revitalize the downtown area here in Las Vegas.If you haven't been to Las Vegas
in a while or if you live in Las Vegas and haven't been to downtown in a while, you
definitely need to go check out what's going on downtown, not just under the
Fremont Street Experience, which is still a lot of fun, but go a couple blocks
east see what's going on on Fremont Street East, and then really take a few, a
walk a few blocks down to the Arts District, the 18b Arts District here in
downtown Las Vegas and you'll see a lot of great fun things going on. There are a
lot of quirky little shops, l a lot of quirky, cool little eclectic bars and
that kind of thing, so please check out downtown Las Vegas if you haven't. But
and we, you remain drawn to the aura around doers and dreamers and people who
have an entrepreneurial spirit and that's what we got talking about a
couple weeks ago. I really wanted to bring you on the show and you're looking
to help those who endeavor to make of the built world whether it's a home, a
neighborhood or a community through your own personal energy and passion. I love
that. Welcome to the show, thank you for being here. Thank you so much. So tell us
about you how did you become a photographer? You know, where did you
start out as a kid? Did you always want to be a photographer? What's the
story of how you got from, got to where you are today. Well so in junior high I
definitely needed an outlet for all the ideas that were in my head. hI was not
great at drawing you know ceramics also just kind of
plateaued. I was able to take a photography class in the
tenth grade and immediately it's like this love this
but at the same time parallel to that I loved art history. So I ended up, I
went to school the all my internships were with curators and and museums and
galleries and went school for art history but always did photography and
then my last year of school, actually making it to last year, was in the UK
studying. I was taking pictures for the school newspaper and mainly the the live
shows that came and and that's when I really was like okay I really want to
make art and not write about it and curate other people's art. That's
awesome, where were you at in the UK? Because I didn't know you'd
studied over there. Oh yeah, so I was at UEA in Norwich. Okay I've been out there
yeah and very quickly I did some stuff in the when I was in the Air Force I did
some stuff in the Lakenheath area and we had a day off so we drove out that way
just to kind of see what was going on. Oh yeah so yeah I picked it obviously for its
program, but also its proximity to London which is also the reason why I had
chosen UMass and its proximity to New York so I could kind of zip down
to those urban, you know amazing places and not have to live there. Yeah that's
the, I grew up in Connecticut and that's where the the one advantage of growing
up in Connecticut is that you're not right in the cities. I lived halfway
between New York and Boston it was amazing.
I spent a lot of time in both of those as a kid when I went to college in
Boston. But yeah it's great to be close to the city but not in the city right?
Right, but then after school you know it was either so then I decided okay I'm
gonna be professional photographer and I'll start now trying to assist other
photographers and it's what's after college it was you know basically
they're like LA or New York for that and so of course I'm going to go to New York
right went there and then you I worked at a magazine for a couple but
a year and and then assisted other photographers and then start shooting on
my own. Cool. How do you think your art history backgrounds, as opposed to
like a straight visual graphic arts background, which is what a lot of
photographers do, how do you think your art history background helped you as a
photographer? How did that help build that foundation for you as an
artist? Well I think that you know thats' a really good questions. Yeah I don't always stick to the ones I gave
you ahead of time. Yeah so I think that realizing you know all these great
artists painters you know they all started with the fundamentals. They all
started with the basics and then they develop their own style and themes you
know to going off from there. And so I think with photography you you need to
know the basics. Okay there should be a foundation and then
and then you build on that. You know if you if you start off really abstract
you sort of lost that process of getting it to the abstract. So
so yeah I think I I think about that like Picasso, you know, I think about that.
I've thought about that a lot over my career and how there's sort of different
phases of my own interests and and and that's how those great painters were.
That's really impressive one of things I've learned is I've started to
grow as a public speaker and do more professional public speaking, is that
those fundamentals are really important. I've had to go back to the ideas of just
things like organizing a speech or choosing the right word. So for someone
who's thinking about going into the visual arts or becoming a photographer
what are some of those things that you go back to over and over again? What are
some of those those foundational fundamentals that you would advise
everyone get really strong? Well, I mean compositions and I think that
you know I haven't really gotten used to looking at just a screen on the back to
make a composition. I still very much look through... You're a viewfinder, that's
how I learned. I'm a viewfinder person and that's how that's how I do it.
And so I think just the basics of composition and light and and then how
you know with the different f-stops and apertures, there's a different
feeling that you get with those settings. And in those settings you know when your
depth of field is shallower and you have sort of like a softer image you
know if it's if you're way up by a you know f-18, f-22 super sharp yeah and it
could be really contrasting that works with some things but definitely not others.
So if you're using your phone for your Instagram pictures, what I heard here is
composition matters, it still matters so and and you know we we
make we make a lot of fun of the people who take that picture over and over
again on Instagram and try to get it right and try to get the perfect filter
but that's a lot of what you do as a photographer right, is really you have
a vision of what the shot should be and you're not satisfied until you get there?
Yeah exactly. I mean just yesterday I was doing a shoot at the Barrick Museum on
the UNLV campus with doing a portrait of a good friend of mine for a magazine
and I really I caught myself even taking
three frames of the same the same composition. I don't think he changed his
expression but it just it wasn't it, just wasn't exactly right you know and so I
had this - I had to sort of stop myself and you know just is it move a little
bit to the left do I do I go up just a little bit you
know and so yeah the little details that matter when you're doing something like
that right right and then of course they get get distracted because the his
shirts wrong you know something's wrong with this shirt and then I got it
right like mine right now I got I do I always bunches up here ready so yeah but
you know one of the photographer's that I assisted early on was a still life
photographer okay and for as so boring as that could be on a set where you're
just moving things ever so slightly but all of that attention to detail really
made a great foundation and in the work that I do, and which is portraiture
whether that you know a human interest story or just like one one shot in an
environment every little thing is I'm looking at every little detail and if
something's off I can catch it before you know having to go back and retouch
too much of the pose. And that was where our first conversation started about
some portraits you taking besides your commercial work you've actually started
to grow into this field of sports photography, particularly working with
boxers and you talked about a couple of, you told me and showed me a couple of
portraits that you had taken of a boxer before and after his match. Can you tell
me about that experience? So okay so I've always done personal projects. Okay.
15 years ago for seven years I followed a young race car, or some young race car
drivers up the ranks in dirt track one of them up to the NASCAR seat. Okay.
So I've always been attracted to the journey to the spotlight. Okay. You know,
and it's just been recently that I was able to just put that into one sentence:
journey to the spotlight. Love it! that's the title of your new book. Yeah
right! Yeah that's so with the boxing, I personally started to box. I was looking
for something that would give me mental focus and and challenge me, learn
something new. So basically at the gym it's it's me and a lot of pro fighters.
Yeah for sure. Right and you know all these people are just working so hard
and they're just the sweat is just pouring off, you know, and so I will just
walk up and say "What are you working towards?
When's your fight? What's your story?" And so I've been able to start to follow
about five or so. And this is all local here in Las Vegas?
Yeah five or so, six fighters and all at the professional level all in varying
degrees. Some hold titles some don't and so I'm working to get pictures of them
outside of the ring, outside of the gym what sacrifices are they making at home,
what kind of training are they doing at home, what does that family look like,
what kind of sacrifices are they making there. And yeah I really don't know where
it's going to take me but I'm but I'm doing it. Well that's the best part of a story
like this is you don't know where it's going to take you and the story's going to
be worth telling no matter what. That's right and then what I hope is it I mean
in this journey to the spotlight it you know it's applicable to sports,
entertainment, a construction site, you know, anything that is, you know, people
are working on something that's being built or being worked towards right, a
chef in the kitchen, you know just all of that behind the scenes stuff. I mean I
had sort of I guess on my website is called behind-the-scenes but... Yes and you have
some beautiful, her website is amazing and we're going to take a break here in a
minute, but I want you to finish your story, because we're going to
take a break, this video is going to go up separately. I want you to tell
everybody when you're done your story about how people can reach you, because if
they only watch this one segment. Okay so but yeah a chef in the kitchen,
Chef in a kitchen. So it really it's it's just across the board and that's what I
love you know a so we have to be so careful with how much of the boxing
stuff I show because I don't want it to be like oh, Emily just does sports now,
you know, anything no that not at all like I'm still doing stories of doers and
dreamers, entrepreneurs, people are just really working hard. Love it. Behind the
scenes and yeah one of the ones that I'm going to do just next week is a friend of
mine. Pop-up Pizza who, Mike who owns Pop-up Pizza here in Las Vegas, he got number one
pizza in Las Vegas and then fifth in the country. He just competed in New York and
so I called him up. That's a story right there. I gotta come do a portrait
He has a mentor so we're going to do a photo with his mentor as well. Okay awesome
yeah awesome well we are gonna close up this segment real quick, but tell everyone
where they can find your website and tell them how they can reach you just in
case don't go anywhere I'm not saying, giving you permission to
leave. I'm not saying you can leave but if people only see this segment tell
everyone how they can reach you. Okay so I actually just launched a new website
yesterday and it is emilywilsonphotography.com it's always been that
but I just relaunched it. It is a beautiful website I spent a lot of time
on it last night. I worked so hard on that literally it took me three days and
it is an incredible platform to use so emilywilsonphotography.com
and then i'm on instagram @ewphoto All right well don't go anywhere because
we're going to jump back in. We've got we're a little bit in flux today with our other
guest so we're going to bring Emily back. We're going to talk a little bit more. I
don't know what the rest of the show is going to look like, but I promise you'll get
to find out within the next few minutes. So we're going to take a little bit of a
break. We'll be right back with more Emily Wilson.
This is Geeks R Sexy. Stay here keep watching!
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