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Eric Hamilton

Photographer

About Me

    Nikon D80 10.2 MP Digital SLR Nikkor 18mm - 135mm F/3.5 - 5.6 lens Nikkor 50mm F/1.8D portrait lens 2x Nikon SB-600 Speedlight flash units
I am a full time professional photographer in Salt Lake City Utah. I have been using SLR cameras for 15 years, and working with digital images for 8 years. I built the first digital photo lab on Oahu. I co-founded the SparkArts: Digital Arts Festival -- an annual event held in Salt Lake City Utah. I manage the photography and music competitions for the event, and I am a guiding force behind the vision and goals of the SparkArts organization.I specialize in commercial and editorial fashion, glamour, and nightlife photography.Background

As a teenager, I transformed my bedroom into a darkroom by taping aluminum foil to my windows. I bought a used film SLR from a thrift store and started shooting black and white photos. For years I neglected my photography skills, and concentrated instead of music and computers. In 1998, I ended up working at a little photo store in Laie, Hawaii, where I got a crash course in digital photography and photo finishing. I did photo processing, digital repair, and retouching, sometimes rescuing family treasures that were 100 years old!

In 2005, I needed a photographer to document music events, and when nobody stepped up, I bought a point and shoot digital camera and tackled it myself. I missed the artistic control of a real SLR, so in 2007, I bought a Nikon D80, and remembered how much I loved photography. I dove in head-first, deciding almost immediately to alter my career focus and concentrate on photography full-time. That's all I've been doing ever since, and I'm loving it more every day!

Photo Portfolio

Music

Dilvie caught the electronic music bug in the demoscene during the early 90's. His primary influences at the time were demoscene legends, synthpop and new wave bands of the 80's, videogame music, and industrial bands. In the mid 90's, Dilvie began to pay a lot more attention to DJ's when he was exposed to the fluid mixes of local and national talents in the rave scene. You might hear Dilvie's music on dancefloors, TV, a large number of podcasts, or in a wide variety of independent DVDs and videos. With close to half a million downloads of his royalty free tracks circulating the globe, you never know where they'll turn up!

Currently, Dilvie operates Knobtweakers.net , a popular electronic music MP3 blog. Rumor has it, he's hard at work on a number of Drum and Bass tracks and remixes, as well.

    Dilvie.com Knobtweakers: Free Music Blog - Founder Knobtweakers on MySpace SparkArts: Digital Arts Festival - I'm a co-founder
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Member Since: 3/16/2005
Band Website: dilvie.com
Band Members: Eric Hamilton
Influences: Depeche Mode, New Order, Dead Can Dance, Mozart, Louis Armstrong, Kaskade, John B, Hunz, Necros
Record Label: Knobtweakers.net
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Weddings, Friends, and Family...

One of my best friends got married Saturday.  Quite a few of my friends have been married but this comes at a time when I've been thinking a lot about closeness, marriage, family, and friends.&nb...
Posted by Eric Hamilton on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:54:00 PST

An Open Letter to V2

Dear V2,I want to thank you publicly for everything you do for Salt Lake City's electronic music community. During my time in SLC, you've brought in many of my favorite artists, and given me the oppo...
Posted by Eric Hamilton on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:08:00 PST

SparkArts Festival Day Two Report

Well, SparkArts is over now. I'm exhausted! A lot of people put a lot of work into organizing this event and making it a success. My sincere thanks to all of the other organizers for all their help an...
Posted by Eric Hamilton on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:51:00 PST

SparkArts Festival Day One Report

As predicted, hosting an event like this in a venue as amazing as the Salt Lake City Public Library was a terrific idea! The library staff was helpful and friendly, the library itself never fails to a...
Posted by Eric Hamilton on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:50:00 PST

Check out this event: GET FREAKY 2007

Hosted By: V2 Events When: Saturday Oct 27, 2007 at 8:00 PMWhere: TBATBASALT LAKE CITY, UT., UT 84111United StatesDescription:V2 Events Click Here To View Event...
Posted by Eric Hamilton on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 02:03:00 PST

Utah Fashion Blog

Want to know what's going on behind the scenes in Utah's fashion industry? In addition to posting information about some of my photo shoots, I'm going to start using my blog to talk about some of m...
Posted by Eric Hamilton on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:12:00 PST

Check out this event: SparkArts: Digital Arts Festival

Hosted By: Eric Hamilton HamiltonWhen: Friday Oct 12, 2007 at 9:00 AMWhere: Salt Lake City Public Library210 East 400 SouthSalt Lake City, UT 84111United StatesDescription:SparkArts is an annual Digit...
Posted by Eric Hamilton on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:28:00 PST

Buy Prints

Posters and canvas prints are available in a wide range of sizes: ...
Posted by Eric Hamilton on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 07:35:00 PST

Utah Photographers - Marty Needs Your Help!

Around 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, June 17, 2007, Marty Kasteler and his wife Nicki Kasteler were heading home on their bicycles from a friends house. While riding home a delivery van started to run them off...
Posted by Eric Hamilton on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:02:00 PST

Meditation

Three notes floating on the air open my mind's eye to a field of shimmering stars overhead. The night air hits me and I breathe in deep as I'm lifted up into the invisible arms of the night. Hands a...
Posted by Eric Hamilton on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 11:27:00 PST