Tom Simon
Tom Simon
Thomas Simon has been a photographer for more than a few decades. His first experience with photography was using a Brownie Bullseye camera when he was in Elementary School . He learned the basics of photography when he was in high school. He started when working on the school newspaper, which was put together with wax and rubber cement.
Over the years he has used many different types of cameras, the smallest being a Minox and the largest a #10 Cirkut camera which produced a negative 10 inches wide and more than a yard long.
Around 2003 the majority of his work changed from being made with film to being made with digital cameras. The first digital camera he owned was a Kodak 14n which was based on a Nikon body.
Simon hasn’t exhibited much, concentrating on publishing. His first solo exhibition was in 1971 at the Akron Art Institute and he was involved in several group shows during the mid 1970s which included the Butler Institute of American Art and The Floating Foundation of Photography. Later in the decade he taught photography at a local Community College.
His approach to photography has been influenced by photographers like W. Eugene Smith, Don McCullen, Marc Ribaud, August Sander, Diane Arbus, Weegee and many others.
His work has appeared in many publications including The Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine, Ohio Magazine, Cleveland Edition, Ohio Week, Industry Week, Medical Economics, L’ Usine Nouvelle, Inc., Business Week, Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Pittsburgh Press, The Fort Lauderdale News Sentinel, Stern, Liberation, Downbeat, Toronto Globe and Mail, The Economist and in a couple books .
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Jennifer Knight
Overall, I felt the workshop was very helpful, and gave me some basics that were needed to practice on my own and feel like I have enough of a foundation to build on. As a complete novice, it was a necessary step! In terms of my camera issues, there are two issues that occur periodically, and there doesn’t seem to be a consistent fix that I can rely on. The first is that the camera and lens do not reliably connect, and it results in an error. I think in discussing this with Tom yesterday, we narrowed down that it is likely a technical issue with either the lens or the camera, and if it continues, I should try replacing the lens and see if that resolves the issue. The other problem that occurs is that the autofocus doesn’t work consistently, and this one I’m not certain if it’s a technical issue, or if it’s user error. I don’t know if there are settings that are incompatible with autofocus, and I need to change settings when that happens, or if it’s like the communication issue, and it’s a physical problem with the lens or camera. If you can offer any insight there it would be appreciated, because as someone who wears contacts for distance and reading glasses for close up, manual focus is not a recipe for success!
Thank you as well for the Power Points that you sent! I’ll take a look at those today!
Jennifer
Barbara Bruhn
Thank you so much for the images, which are wonderful, and for a terrific class yesterday. Your knowledge is vast and you communicate it so easily and understandably. I learned so much and enjoyed every minute. How very lucky for me that I got to be your solo student yesterday. I feel ready to venture beyond auto mode and preprogrammed scenes! Let me know when you’re giving any other classes. I will be there. Many thanks.
Aric Hluch
It went very well, thank you! Tom was a great instructor. I look forward to applying the skills I learned. I will be sure to send some good shots (when I get them).
-Aric