Ron Scott began working as a photographer in 1967 after graduating from Tulane University in New Orleans with a bachelors degree in Physics. Ron started his own photographic business in 1972 in Houston, Texas. Ron's photographic career has spanned three decades and his clients have included the top corporations, advertising agencies and design firms in the country. His photography has won numerous awards in prestigious shows in New York, San Francisco, Houston and Dallas and his photographs have appeared in Communications Arts Magazine, Photographis, Graphis Posters and at the PHOTOKINA exhibit. He is a former contributing editor to Texas Monthly Magazine and created the photographs for thirty-one of its covers.
In 1984 Ron became interested in computer graphics as a new tool for creating photographic images. He has always considered photography as a "marriage of science and art", so the adoption of the computer as an imaging tool was a natural extension of his craft as a photographer. In 1985 Ron was selected by the SIGGRAPH 86 design team to produce the central image of the official poster promoting the 1986 conference in Dallas, Texas. The image was a computer creation of a typical Texas cactus and flower and was used in all SIGGRAPH 86 promotional materials and advertising. Ron's computer generated imagery has been used in annual reports, brochures, magazines and consumer and trade advertising.
Being a pioneer in the creation of computer images, Ron discovered that many of the software tools he required to do his work were inadequate or non-existent. So it became necessary to develop his own tools for image composition, special effects and film output. Others too were eager for these new tools and soon Ron evolved from tool user to tool maker. By 1988 Ron Scott, Inc. was marketing several successful computer graphics software products, including the digital film recorder driver QPR and a popular image editing and special effects package named QFX. These tools have evolved over the ensuing years into the mature graphics products that Ron Scott, Inc. markets today. You can learn more about the software offerings from Ron Scott, Inc. at http://www.qfx.com.
Ron continues to create compelling photographs using his unique vision to create images with impact and imagination. Ron embraced the digital revolution early on and now creates most of his images using the latest digital cameras and printers. There are many photographers who have jumped on the digital image bandwagon, but few have the combined skills of both a keen eye and a mastery of the computer. Ron has been making images for more than a quarter of a century and using digital techniques in that endeavor for more than a decade. He has at his fingertips every tool imaginable for making striking, compelling imagery and the experience to know just which ones to use. And, if the right tool is not there, Ron can create it.
You may see a portfolio of Ron’s work at: http://www.ronscott.com.