Dawnne, by Dawnne © 2004, 2007 Dawnne Gee Dawnne is the owner and lead photographer of ShadowMoon Productions, LLC, based in southeastern South Dakota, and specializing primarily in wedding photography and sports coverage. He has been involved in the digital imagery industry since 1998, and has been shooting independently since 2002, specializing in weddings and fine art. Dawnne was an early adopter and proponent of digital photographic capture, starting back in 2002 when Nikon released the D100, and has remained a steadfast Nikon Digital photographer ever since. He has enjoyed a relatively eclectic approach to the photographic industry as a whole via interconnected systems programming and database architecture, which functions he still performs in limited degree for ShadowMoon and for a handful of special clients. For a time, he was a frequent contributor PC Graphics Report (now The Graphics Report), but the magazine’s operations have since been curtailed to an automated online presence.

Dawnne’s fine art reflects his focus on the little things as well as his appreciation for larger natural forms. He has not had that much time in the past couple of years to capture fine art imagery, focusing primarily on client services, but with the recent general improvements to digital post-production and Digital Asset Management (DAM) principles, Dawnne is making a steadfast commitment to ensuring that this part of his creativity is continually served.

When it comes to digital post-production, Dawnne proudly uses a finite set of tools in addition to his own processing methods:

 

 

In past incarnations during this lifetime, Dawnne served in the US Army as a forward-area reconnaissance specialist and Russian linguist, serving in two armed conflicts prior to 1992. Self-employed since 1995 (originally as a web designer), Dawnne’s experience has included work for software developers, online procurement systems, online image repositories, brand solutions agencies, and advertising agencies with services ranging from web design, internet architecture, graphic design, photography, and integrated systems management. While the focus of ShadowMoon Productions is almost exclusively on digitography (a distinction from photography which Dawnne feels is fundamentally important) today, Dawnne is also well-versed in Wordpress blog implementation, management and theme design. Dawnne’s own blogs include:

 

 

As mentioned above, Dawnne is active in the DAM community in addition to the digital photographic community as a whole. The bulk of his participation and effort in these communities involves testing the software he uses. Dawnne feels this is an important way to ensure the quality and integrity of the products on which he stakes his business, and is also simply another way he has fun. Past and present major beta-testing endeavors have included the following software programs. He has tested many other pieces of software and hardware in the past, but some of the companies (such as Quarterdeck) no longer exist, and the comprehensive list of everything he’s ever beta-tested, whether privately or publicly, would be relatively boring.

 

  • Corel (formerly WordPerfect Corporation and Novell, Inc.) WordPerfect, 1996-2002
  • Kai’s Power Tools 5, 6, and 7 (through MetaTools, Inc and MetaCreations Corporation), 1997-2000
  • Corel (formerly MetaCreations) Painter 7, 8, 1999-2001
  • Adobe® PhotoShop® CS and CS2 (press beta through PC Graphics Report), 2002-2005
  • Turner Broadcasting’s GameTap, 2005-present
  • Marc Rochkind’s ImageIngester Pro, 2006-present
  • McAfee Total Protection, 2006-present
  • Peter Krogh’s RapidFixer, present
  • Nik Software (various), present

 

Dawnne’s life is also tightly circumscribed by soccer. He plays goalkeeper in an adult COED league, is a State-level referee, a referee instructor, and a referee assessor. He lives in rural northeastern Lincoln County, between Sioux Falls and Harrisburg, South Dakota, with his wife, two children, and four cats. Dawnne can occasionally be found wandering along the old Rock Island Railroad, various parks in Sioux Falls, or along the shores of Big Stone Lake in the northeastern part of the state.