I am generally what I would call a travel and landscape photographer. A lot of my work gets done on the road and I find that most of my great subjects are found by chance while traveling. I am fascinated by people and culture, and so I am a sucker for persons in traditional clothes still upholding ancient traditions etc. I also really enjoy nature and the battery recharging capabilities of spending time there, so beautiful landscapes are another of my passions. I do feel like a lot of landscape photos fall into the either oversharpened, overblurred or just oversaturated category, so I try to keep it more subtle.
Being midways through a 8 month trip through Latinamerica, and having been on similarly sized travels earlier, I can say that it is definitely the people you remember. I don't remember much of the landmarks etc., but I still remember a lot of the conversations I've held with people. They made it special.
Being a landscape photographer the nature does also stick with me, however.
The fashion and portraits genre is not one which I am very well versed in, and I haven't really seen that many photos from it as I haven't been seeking it, but they do make some nice images!
I think he is a talented photographer but he is unfortunately getting swept up in all the trends of Instagram in his photography, which makes his photos less authentic and interesting. His new obsession with REALLY dark and moody editing is a shame, in my opinion.
Wow, imagine having to do street work with a giant Speed Graphic camera like Weegee. Normally I try to be as stealthy as possible when photographing street, but that would be impossible with a camera of that size :-).
Both are very good, and shooting in the early to mid 1900's shot in black and white, which I really like.
What about you? Do you shoot color or b&w? Did you stick to street like Weegee and Smith or have you taken a different route?
Yann Arthus-Berthrand's "The earth from above" is amazing! Thank you for sharing it. It reminds me a lot of George Steinmetz's work whom I also shared in my own comment.
I've seen Peter Menzel's photos before they are very fascinating. Crazy idea to photograph entire families with either their belongings or what they eat in that way, but it totally works and nobody has done it before (as far as I know).
I think their projects have great humanitarian and documentary value, I wish they were regularly repeated.
In what parts of the world has life become more similar to the viewers', in which parts has it remained distinct? What do people value? Seeing is believing, and understanding, and an opportunity for empathy.
True, Ansel Adams really was a master of his craft. I have to study his work more, he has some amazing photographs! The black and white really does something for the picture, I always thought that the contrast it is able to bring out without being too much is very pleasable to the eye.
I took a look at your photos - a lot of them are good! The ones with the same person multiple times in the frame kinda threw me for a loop. How did you achieve that?
Stand in one place, take several pictures as the person walks/rides across, then use Hugin[1] to align the images, outputting each as a TIF. Then import those as layers, and use masking to compose them into the final image with GIMP[2].
If you're more prepared, you could just use a tripod to skip the need for alignment.
I used to watch Sean's videos all the time! I find street a bit hard as a genre because I feel that most photos I see are basically just random snapshots without any real story or anything that makes it special. Of course there are some talented street photographers.
Vivian Maier took some excellent photos and was basically unknown until someone found a bunch of her film canisters at a yard sale and developed them.
Definitely. It kind of depends on what you like. I'm drawn to aesthetics more than I am story. Those photographers are some of the greats though, for sure, and I do think most of the "greats" are that because they blend aesthetic and story perfectly.
I share my work on https://www.madscphoto.com