Inspiration Hour!

So every now and again I like to spend an hour or so looking at new or previous photographers, artists or inspirations of mine to keep my ideas up to date and to also think of new ways I can improve my own photography. This week I have been looking at another one of my favourite all-round photographers Shaun Alexander. Shaun is a top fashion and advertising photographer who specialising in anything you can imagine, his portfolio is literally never ending! I spent a good house looking at his website, his images and his career as a whole. He really is an inspiration and his work is very unique and one of a kind! The quality of imagery is very high, and with him creating and working with numerous advertising campaigns, Cosmetic campaigns, and Editorial Campaigns. Fashion designers, high fashion magazines, advertising companies, fashion editorial, celebrities, magazine covers, his work is known famously worldwide, with the standard of photography and work always growing after every shoot of his.


If you have time please check out his amazing website! (You wont be disappointed!)

http://www.shaunalexander.net/

Laura xx

My Favourite Photographers!

For this blog post I decided to talk about my favourite photographers and what inspires me as a photographer.

I look at a lot of other photographers work and a lot of their work really inspires me and the way I work. Obviously every photographer has their own style but it doesn't stop you from having a look at what's popular and what other photographers are doing to help gather ideas and to add to a board or folder for future shoots. Two photographers I really love the work of are Marco Grob and Chris Nicholls.

Both work as fashion, portraiture and advertisement photographers, but both with two different styles of shooting.

My first inspiration is Chris Nicholls, a fashion photographer but with a very different style to Marco Grob. One of my most favourite group of images is an editorial piece with model Herieth Paul for the September 2013 edition of Fashion Magazine. His work is absolutely beautiful and shot in the most amazing places with stunning models, again his work captivates the eye, but in a different way to that of Marco Grob's work. I would love to produce images like Chris does, you can tell his passion for photography leaks through his images, which is how every photographer should work. Chris makes sure his images are picture perfect, displaying elegance and beauty with definition and simplicity. I could honestly look at his work all day long and I believe his amazing images speak for themselves. I aspire to become what he has become during his career as a fashion photographer.

My second inspiration is Marco Grob, known as the master of faces, he produces captivating images of people using his well known lighting techniques, sculpting the light to suit the specific facial shape. He uses Elinchrom with the use of Monoheads to create the light, with this lighting being particularly powerful and one that gives off a light all in the right places! I absolutely love love love his work, especially as he works 90% in black and white, gives it a very pure feel about it, like its just Marco, the light and the person, without any colour or Photoshop interfering with the image, which it really doesn't need! Although his images are so simple to the eye, it is in hindsight work that once you see it, will stick in your mind, it is that powerful.

This image is just wow! It really does make me speechless looking at an image so perfectly lit which defines Leonardo Dicaprio in every single nook and crannie! This has to be one of my favourite black and white portrait images in a long time, it will be very hard to beat!!

I did try for myself, a go at the way Marco Grob works and I tried to position the lighting to make my image look as Grob like as I could! This is my outcome which I am very pleased with and proud of!!

Until next time!

Laura xxx