ABOUT BRENDA MOFFITT
ACTION AND INTERACTION
Every day is an adventure. I am continually drawn to exploring and documenting our actions and interactions, with ourselves, with others, and with our environment. I am more about the candid moments of interaction than about strictly posed group photos.
Location: San Diego County, California, USA
Genres: Sports/action, people doing things, events, landscape, street photography, general game day photography
Style: Documentary/photojournalism when on deadline; more stylized editing when given time. I edit in both color and black and white. The nature of the events I have been working means I usually work with the available light, supplemented very occasionally by fill flash. I work best when I can fully concentrate on an event and deliver photos after the event, instead of having to constantly fiddle with my phone and sending photos during the event.
Equipment: Canon R7 (crop sensor), 70-200 2.8, 50mm 1.8, 24mm 2.8, 3 flashes with wireless transmitter, reflector, umbrellas, black and white collapsible background, blue fabric background and t-shaped stand, light stands, tripod.
Software: Lightroom, Photoshop, Bridge, Photo Mechanic
Where you've seen my work: Instagram and other social media accounts of San Diego State women and men's soccer players, social media for Padres Camps and Girls Rugby Inc So Cal.
Current projects: San Diego State University women's and men's soccer; Window on the American West; Cal-urban street photography; neighborhood birds; putting my archive online; sky replacements; headshots
Recent new clients: Girls Rugby Inc. SoCal (San Diego), Padres Baseball and Softball Camps (Rally Camps), Kent State University women's lacrosse.
Past projects: American Outlaws soccer supporters group; East Village Association events
Influences: Baroque paintings; film noir; a sense of time and place; the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat from the intro to ABC's Wide World of Sports; palm trees, 1980s taco shop decor and other Southern California tropes; finding joy and humor in life's absurdities; our personal, family, and group rituals; Edward Hopper's paintings; public transit and pedestrian life.
Training: While I have formal training in other areas, in photography I am self-taught and a continuing student of the University of YouTube. I try to learn something new every day, and apply it to my work.
Photo: London, 1987, with my first SLR, which I definitely did not know how to use then. Taken by one of three buddies who were with me that day. None of them want to claim credit for it.