grandpaw wrote:
Im looking for websites that I can look at pictures to inspire me and give me ideas and new techniques. Thanks for any sites you may list here for me to check out. Thanks, Grandpaw
Ansel Adams, Mary Ellen Mark, Gordon Parks, Edward Henry Westen, Nevada Wier, Paul Strand, Jodi Cobb, Edward S. Curtis, William Eugene Smith, Henry Cartier-Bresson, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Irving Penn, Dorothea Lange, Jay Dickman, Annie Leibovitz, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Robert Capa, Yusuf Karsh, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Steve McCurry, DeWitt Jones, Eliot Porter, Lewis Hine, Philippe Halsman, Arthur Fellig ("Weegee"), Fran Lanting, John Fielder, Anne Geddes, Joel Meyerowitz, William Eggleston, Helmut Newton, Edward Steichen, Arnold Newman, Galen Rowell, David Muench, Brett Weston, Jack Dykinga, John Sexton, and many more.
My teacher started us out with some of the classic masters. We had to shoot our "sexy" bell peppers in black and white. But as we "mastered" a skill, our teacher challenged us with, "Now you know how he did his pepper. What are you going to do now?" I have read some books about these photographers, I have some of these photographer's books, I have taken classes from some of these photographers, I have seen some of these photographers pictures, I have some of these photographer's pictures on my walls, I have tried to figure out how and why they shot what they shot. There will be always something more to learn. And many of these great photographers have probably "forgotten" more photographic knowledge than I will ever know. And it always comes down to, "What are you going to do now?"