Photo Journal V5

David Bailey is an inspirational photographer to me because the guy has taken a portrait of pretty much every famous person on the planet. He uses analog cameras but the images he creates are amazing. Mainly in black and white, he captures the essence of the person that he is shooting. I want to figure out what else makes this man so great besides the fact that he can take a clean picture of the most famous people to live. Just the thought of being able to meet this many people gets me wondering how this man found himself as the man to get your portrait taken from. My guess is that he has been in the business for a long, long time and that he has a ton of connections. I would consider him to be one of the masters of photography and I am sure that he will be presented to us in one of the following weeks during our 141 class.

This image is inspirational to me because it makes me want to see the world and find an adventure somewhere. I guess I am living an adventure right now in going to school and meeting new people and learning new things, but I want to see the world and explore outside of the northwest (although I have not done that much exploring even here). Needless to say, as a student you do not have many options. I will just have to get out of my comfort zone even more and meet people with cars and who would be up for taking me on trips with them. Someday I will own one of these vans and travel the country with it.

Photo Journal V4

This picture is inspiring to me because of the awesome use of long exposure and thinking outside the box. I have yet to really dive into using my shutter release and my tripod but hopefully I will soon. The lights shining through the fog is really the selling point for me in this image. If it was just at night, you would not be able to see the individual beams or get the eerie feel that you get from this picture. It is a brilliant capture to say the least and I would like to try and capture something similar in my lifetime. The red tint is also very intriguing as red is in general. I wonder how long it took for the lights to cycle through and if he was using bulb. I could not find any info about the photographer that took this photo as I found it off Tumblr, which rarely has the credentials; great place to find inspiration though!

This image inspires me because of the use of blue and red light. I have seen many pictures that use this technique and I must say that I like it a lot. It is an extremely moody shot and the model adds to the moodiness with her expression. I am attracted to the red in the picture like I was in the previous but I wonder how hard it is to capture red tones in camera. I have heard that it is a concert photographer’s worst nightmare but for something like this it must have been easier to lock in the settings on camera. Again, I like the idea of using blue and red to highlight different sides of the models face.