Photography
Through the Lens: 50 Years of Pro. Photography - Lecture with Ron Wyatt
Celebrating 50 years behind the camera, professional photographer Ron Wyatt takes audiences on a behind-the-scenes journey through a career spanning corporate, editorial, and event photography. From photographing the Olympic Games and NFL events to corporate assignments, healthcare photography inside operating rooms, architectural projects, and more than three decades of work with Six Flags, Ron shares the real world experiences that shaped his work.
The presentation features images from three international tours with the Moscow Ballet, assignments for marketing and PR firms, national conferences, and government work, including photographing the President of Turkey and the First Lady during their visit to the United Nations in New York.
Ron also demonstrates how digital photography has transformed his workflow in recent years, sharing practical insights into how images are created for marketing and PR departments, newspapers, magazines, press releases, ribbon cuttings, and corporate storytelling. Along the way, he reveals how these assignments were secured, and the unexpected situations that happened while creating them.
Today, Ron continues to share his passion for photography through his company, Photo Adventures with Ron, where he leads hands-on photo tours for photographers to inspiring destinations including Cuba, Tanzania, Rome, Venice, Alaska (bears catching salmon), covered bridges in Pennsylvania and Vermont, and lighthouse tours along the coast of Maine.
This program offers inspiration, education, and an honest look at building a lasting career in professional photography.
Ron Wyatt’s first experience with photography was an unsuccessful photo documentation of his honeymoon. Armed with a borrowed instamatic camera, he learned that camera shake will not produce great photos.Ron, a self-taught photographer has covered the NBA, NFL and Major League Baseball. He also photograph two Summer Olympic Games. His photos have appeared in various publications such as: USA Today, Black Enterprise Magazine, Time Magazine, Newsweek TV Guide, ESPN and others.He has cover corporate assignments for, Six Flags, Eastman Kodak, Continental Airlines, CVS, Pepsico, Verizon, MetLife, Capital One and many others.His Photography has allowed him to travel to various parts of the world. I was assigned by Kodak to photograph two Summer Olympic Games, (Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008). His Olympic work was feature in Studio Photography and a 7 page spread in the July 2009 issue of RangeFinder Magazine.American Photo call Ron Wyatt A Modern Master Of The Olympics, His works was also feature in Popular Photography and Digital Photographer UK.He worked has a video cameramen for MSNBC, Comcast Sports, News12 and Court TV.
