Inspired By....

Yousuf Karsh:
  http://www.karsh.org/#/the_work/portraits/grace_kelly/

 


Yousuf Karsh is a photographer that I hope to one day be like. If i can be even a tiny pinch of what his portraits are I'll feel accomplished. He's had the honor of photographing some of America (and the world's) most influential people in the spot light of everything from politics to science and even acting and the president's wife! His portrait's are simple and classic and capture part of the model that may be over looked on a day to day basis. In his photo shoot with Helen Keller, the pictures he captures show an unbelievable relationship between Helen and her helper that may go unseen daily. In the portraits he took of Jacqueline Kennedy he capture a beautiful, almost royal type portrait of a person who seems to be almost holding back and shy and it's quite beautiful and simply elegant. Karsh's style is very much what I hope to end up like.


Nigel Barker:
    http://www.studionb.com/

 

Nigel Barker is a contemporary portrait/fashion photographer who is big on clean lines and alot of the same ideas I am which is why Im so attracted to his work. I think the lighting he uses in his black and white photo's are beautiful and i love the angles he uses in alot of his work as well. The pictures are crisp and the colors are bright and clean. I love his work and the fashion feeling he gives them. If i could do a shoot like that I would be in heaven. :)

3 Still Life

4 Abstract Architecture

I really think the bright colors. I think it gives the photo an extra kick. Not only are you seeing a building but the reflection of the blue sky shown on the glass allows you to see the other building across the street which I thought was an interesting play on architecture.

I love this photo and how by changing the blue hue it changes the photo to seem very metallic and flat. I think with the background a flat color it draws the viewers attention to the straight lines that repeat and seem to fall off the page. I find it to be really interesting.

This is my favorite of my architecture shots. I think of this photo to be a glass ocean. The shade of blue and reflections of light and dark make the glass of the building seem like its moving. I think the tilt of the lines on a diagonal rather than being straight gives the photo a flowing motion.

I'm really interested in bright sharp colors of my abstract photography. When I think of abstract photography I think of flat colors in areas you wouldn't normally see them. I like changing photography and allowing the photos to be seen as artistically as possible when it comes to abstract style work. 

Abstract Architecture

3 Abstract artists

Caravaggio- Still Life from the 18th Century-  Caravaggio is my favorite oil painter and he has such great details in his paintings it makes it look as though its as though its a photograph rather than painting. The time and amount of detail and effort that must have been put into his paintings are beyond belief. I hope to base some of my future paintings off Caravaggio style paintings.

Back when Titanic sank April 14, 1912 the world though they had lost the most valuable and beautiful ship to have ever be created. But thank God with the help of photography and the creation of the digital camera capable of deep sea diving we were able to recover a long lost buried treasure that is still beautiful today. Buried at the bottom of the ocean more than 30 miles deep with a story and tragic end that killed hundreds the Titanic was finally recovered and the people of today can see what once was and what it has now become. Its beautiful.

I've always loved wedding photography and I admire those who do wedding photography. Each wedding is different and expresses on an intimate level the love shared between the couple on that day. I wish to one day do family, child, and wedding photography again and I hope that my skills learned in Tyler help me to make people's special days captured forever in pictures they'll want to share forever with everyone. 

photo by: Luster Studios Photography

ISO series

To Be continued...

A Day in the Life of an Ice Storm

When we had an ice storm the other week at school I was stuck inside for the night listening to the hail hit against my window pane. The sound was soothing though after a while and I thought about how it could probably make some really beautiful pictures if I could capture the hail. On this blog I've attached a few pictures showing the hail and rain against my window. It has a delicate feel to it and reminds me of a soft mellow soothing feeling. I've edited the photos also to add a flare and exaggerate the highlights of water and ice on the window pane.

Assignment 2A- WB of the Seasons

 This is my favorite series to show the white balances. Using the different white balances against the glass, ice and snow the picture changes and the light reflecting casts itself in a shade ranging from orange  to yellow to white to blue. Its interesting and the range you can get is beautiful. 

Assignment 2B- The Seasons

These photos are what I believe to be the best from my series of photos on the 4 seasons. I really thought capturing the feel with the color or mood of the lighting was more important rather than just getting the typical or well known ideas associated with the seasons captured. I think these four pictures are the best from my small collection of seasons and show an aspect on the season's that some people may overlook or sometimes take for granted/forget.

A Tune Your Head

These top three I feel express me the best and show a part of me, my future, or my personality. I love the lighting, the mood, and settings created in these 3 pictures.

A Day In The Life- Project1

This project was an easy one for me. Picking 10 pictures out of the many I took was harder for me than I would have imagined.  Im used to taking photos of people so switching from people to objects is a little bit different and required more thought in the placement and set up of the picture framing. I liked this first project because it was an easy assignment to help us all get used to our new cameras and start to figure out how to use a DSLR if we didn't know already. To describe myself, I've attached 10 pictures. Each picture represents a part of me and/or a specific memory, moment, or person that I believe helped me to be who I am today thus being something that describes me. 

This is my engagement ring and my fiance's promise ring that shows our love and commitment to each other.

I love this picture because it not only shows my ring off on a brilliantly black surface to give it some extra "pop" it shows me and my fiance together as well as showcase some additional smaller jewelry in the background. I chose this picture because I thought it had great depth to it and it was very elegant and classy

This picture is a close up  i personally love. it shows off my brown eyes and red hair which is a big part of my personality and also gives a really elegant yet somber feel to the photo with the black tabletop and the reflection of me slightly showing on the black.

I loved this picture because I believe you can tell a lot about a person by looking at their eyes. You can see a person and "read" a person by looking into their eyes and seeing what is said without saying a word. I love the idea of simple photos expressing deep emotions.

I'm an art student. Having a picture of me drawing is something that any one who knows me would see on a daily basis and therefore I thought was something I would have to include in my 10 defining pictures of me.

 

Anyone that knows me knows that I have a huge obsession with earrings. I love this picture because it shows an action that normally people don't think about and has a really great light quality to it.

Scrapbooking is my biggest hobby and is a book to showcase the best moments in life

I originally was not going to include this picture but after looking through my pictures over and over again I kept coming back to this one for the depth it shows. The small piece of hair dangling in the middle of the frame has such detail to it that i think it gives the rest of the photo a great aspect. 

I love mirror reflection photography and find it to be very fun and artistic when done correctly. I love this picture for the backlight that surrounds my head and the soft lighting. The split mirror allows you to see both the original and the mirror image and i think being able to see the smallest bit of my hand on the left portion of the photo allows the photo go a little bit farther than some mirror image photography.

This is my favorite photo. I love the black and white and I love the black table with the blurred reflection. Im very into classic and vintage style elegant pictures and this is something I believe I could see in a persons photo album or wedding album. Wedding photography is something I'm very interested in and would love to do. The depth is captivating and I love the extra smaller jewelry in the background that leads the viewers eye to the picture on the white box in the back and also to the ring blurred in the front.