Photographers that inspire you....

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I just wondered which photographers give you inspiration? did a photographers work get you into photography? which work of theirs do you like best?

I have to say Annie Leibovitz inspires me with her photographs. I don't know what it is about them, I think in each of her photo's she seems to have a relationship/connection with the person/people she is photographing and it comes across in the photo's.
I watched a program about her a while ago now and I can honestly say I have never been so engrossed into a program before. Truly inspiring :)

Whats your thoughts?
 
Annie, is very good and I like Rankin as well.

As for inspiration, I grew up with Bob Carlos Clarke as my hero and I just got his autobiography for Christmas and it's brilliant.

He was one of the first commercial photographers to use fetish based images and his book is called "selling sex" so you can guess the content! It's hardly X rated but it does lean very much that way. He had a really interesting relationship with his models though. He much preferred to find his own rather than use agency models because he found them to be artificial and less "real" There was a certain something that he could detect at one hundred paces!

He's a sad loss.
 
If I could shoot Street Photography as well as Henri Cartier-Bresson I'd die a happy man.
 
AliB said:
Annie, is very good and I like Rankin as well.

As for inspiration, I grew up with Bob Carlos Clarke as my hero and I just got his autobiography for Christmas and it's brilliant.

He was one of the first commercial photographers to use fetish based images and his book is called "selling sex" so you can guess the content! It's hardly X rated but it does lean very much that way. He had a really interesting relationship with his models though. He much preferred to find his own rather than use agency models because he found them to be artificial and less "real" There was a certain something that he could detect at one hundred paces!

He's a sad loss.
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Thanks for the reply, I like rankin too. I have not seen any of Bob Carlos Clarke's work before, I shall look it up though!

Simmotino said:
Honestly?

Several members on here!
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Oooh now you cant just say that and not mention which members!:lol:
 
Landscape: Ansel Adams and Lee Frost
Nature: Eric Hosking, Frans Lanting and Stephen Dalton
Underwater: David Doubilet
Human Form: Max Dupain
Ernst Haas was a mixed bag, some great stuff and somethings that wasn't so hot
 
My inspiration comes from the "golden age of American Black and White work. Adams, Weston and Walker Evans from the US west coast, and Strand and Steiglitz from the US east coast.

And before anyone states otherwise and with due respect to all the fine photographers that frequent this excellent forum, there is no one here at the standard set by any of those guys, and more besides. Not only those mentioned by other members above but also Sagado, Eugene Smith, Capa, the list is endless. Try to visit as many exhibitions as possible and view the images in the flesh, as it were. You will see the difference.

Take your inspiration from the top, thats my motto.
 
Friends I request you all to post your Inspirational photographers gallery links or personnal websites so that other will get chance you see your valuable photographers works and we can also have a chance to get inspire.

Thank you

PCP
 
Nenagh said:
And before anyone states otherwise and with due respect to all the fine photographers that frequent this excellent forum, there is no one here at the standard set by any of those guys, and more besides.

Take your inspiration from the top, thats my motto.
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I agree. Theres some great talent here but its a very safe forum. Portraits, landscapes, cityscapes, bit of street, macro, flowers etc. Akarday was probably the most out there with his military stuff.
 
I will never get anywhere near their standards but I only have to look at these guys work to want to go out and take more shots

O Winston Link
Sebastio Saldago
Ansel Adams
Charlie Waite
Don Mcullam
 
Wow thanks for the replies peeps :)
Good idea with posting links!

I have looked through the ones with links and I have got to say that they are all quite amazing.

I hope that one day (many years and tears down the line) that I will be half as good as these people!
 
mainly one member on here i wont mention her name dont want to embaras her but i love her pics and her PP style
shes been a great help for me and much needed support at times
 
Jade said:
mainly one member on here i wont mention her name dont want to embaras her but i love her pics and her PP style
shes been a great help for me and much needed support at times
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IMO Telling her doesn't embarrass :shrug: her. It also help us to see her works and get inspire like you.

She will also feel good and make her day!:)
 
Ernst Haas has been mentioned here already and he was the first one to show me what photography was capable of. Then Paul Wakefield's large format landscapes of Wales. But for documentary content within the landscape I found the late Fay Godwin very stimulating.

These days of all the landscape photographers Joe Cornish is the most likely to make me go "wow". There's some great wildlifers around too, and I agree about Vincent Munier. He must love cold places .....
 
Trey Ratcliff is who inspired me to try out HDR. Produces some stunning images.

I love Duncan Kerridges's work. Captures emotion so wonderfully and if I'd known he existed before I got married then he would have been my first choice for wedding photographer.

David Noton. Comes across as being really down-to-earth and obviously very passionate about his work. Love his landscapes.
 
Lucie Debelkova, I found her photostream on Flickr, here, and her website is here.
 
Caledonia said:
Lucie Debelkova, I found her photostream on Flickr, here, and her website is here.
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Good call! :thumbs: I've added her to my contacts.

She's got some amazing images on her Flickr stream and it's very humbling to see that many were taken with what most would consider entry-level kit (bodies at least - I don't think lenses are specified).
 
DigitalRelish said:
Good call! :thumbs: I've added her to my contacts.

She's got some amazing images on her Flickr stream and it's very humbling to see that many were taken with what most would consider entry-level kit (bodies at least - I don't think lenses are specified).
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Agreed.

From her website

I currently use Pentax K20D which is 15MPX DSLR together with Pentax SMCP-DA 18mm - 250mm f/3.5-6.3 AL lens, wide angle lens Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6 EX DC HSM and Pentax D-FA 100mm f/2.8 Macro Auto Focus Lens.

Some of my older stock is taken with :
10MPX Canon 400D
8MPX Canon 350D
6MPX Nikon D70

None of my photos are HDR or blended images, they are taken from just one shot
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I think what she has managed to do with as you say, entry level kit, should give hope to everybody.
 
I wouldn't say individual photographers inspire me as such, a few who's work I generally enjoy though;

Marcus Bleasdale - www.marcusbleasdale.co.uk

Sebastiao Salgado as already mentioned a few times.

Matt Stuart shoots in a style similar to myself, but does it a heck of a lot better - www.mattstuart.com

Rui Palha produces a lot of good stuff, I came across him because he again has a similar 'style' to a project I'm working on at the moment - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ruipalha/
 
I wandered into the gallery at the OXO building ont he south bank to look at an exhibition by Phillip Plisson. http://uk.plisson.com/

He mostly takes seascapes around Normandy, Brittany etc which are stunning. I later had the opportunity to visit his studio in ST Malo.
 
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