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About The Artist - Mike DiVita Photography
At 7 years old I received my first camera, a Kodak Instamatic, and embarked on a hobby that would last a lifetime. In later years I graduated to my first 35mm camera, a Pentax K1000. While starting my engineering career and attending night school, I temporarily left photography behind. Years later business travel brought me to California for extended periods of time. Seeing sites like Yosemite and the California coast, which I had only seen in books and magazines, awakened the desire to photograph again.
A honeymoon in Costa Rica prompted me to take my first photography workshop and to start shooting slide film. A few months later my wife and I moved to California. The more we explored California, the more I photographed the natural beauty of the state. It also prompted me to upgrade my trusty K1000 to a professional Pentax PZ-1P.
Being in California not only gave me the ability to visit such beautiful places like Yosemite, Big Sur, the Eastern Sierras, and Death Valley, it gave me the opportunity to take workshops and learn from many talented professional photographers. I'd like to thank Bill Atkinson, Barbara Brundege, Charles Cramer, Jack Dykinga, Franz Lanting, and the late Galen Rowell for everything I've learned over the years from them.
In recent years I've started experimenting with a Wista 4x5 camera and more recently a Nikon digital camera. Whether shooting film and scanning it to a digital file or shooting digital, I believe in maintaining the integrity of the original. If the original is film, the only work in Photoshop is to make the scanned file match the film as closely as possible. If the original is digital, it is shot as a raw file giving me the most information possible. The image will only receive minor adjustments and spotting in Photoshop.
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