Photographers that inspire me

Right now, I am currently staring at images, trying to see what the moment is and what is the story that is being told. Debating against my mind of which one deserves to be in a museum vs. which one does not. I can't wrap my head around it. So far I've reached out to two of my favorite photographers that do great work with capturing sports photography, whether it is commercial, portraits or documentary. These are some that I admire.

1. Sean Berry.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/42961667/44-Build-Deep-Ellum
(images by Sean Berry/Sean Berry Photography)

To me, Sean does an excellent job of capturing a moment and using light in a way that tells an interesting story and captures a special moment. Sean's work is very inspiring to me and helps me think outside the box.

2. Shawn Hubbard

Another huge inspiration. Shawn does an excellent job of finding the moment and capturing it in a way that's aesthetically pleasing to the human eye. His drive to capture a moment with natural and studio lighting produces that drive to shoot better.

https://www.shawnhubbardphoto.com/Stories/St-Frances-Academy/thumbs

https://www.shawnhubbardphoto.com/People/5

(Photo Credit: Shawn Hubbard) 

I did get permission to use photos. 

3. Evan Siegle-

Evan Siegle is a team photographer for the packers. He has inspired me to be intentional with how I compose and how I tell the story better as a sports photographer. The way he composes images and captures the right moment makes him one of my favorite photographers in the game.

https://www.packers.com/photos/

Creative Writing + Social Posts

Often times in life we fear. These fears we have set our limitations. It becomes our comfort zone. When we stay in this comfort zone of ours we are not allowing ourselves to grow. Life starts to get repetitive and we start missing out on the wonders of our life. All for what? Comfortability?.  As long as you are uncomfortable, that means you are growing somewhere. I am constantly trying to make choices that put me out of my comfort zone. As we push our limits, we might often times find ourselves back where we started. Our comfort zones. That’s when we can choose to either go deeper and explore more or we can stay where we are and be content. Explore the unknown or try to find something new without exploring. We have to keep pushing our comfort zones if we want to go out and explore the unknown.  I’m not trying to stay comfortable.

https://tamuceasttexan.com/staff/?writer=Evan%20Luecke (journalistic writing)

https://twitter.com/SUUWBasketball (all tweets dating back to January 2nd our mine)

Mugs (Not finished)

Last week I went to go shoot at Mugs like I have been talking about I am currently working on the presentation to market my self to them explaining myself why they should hire me. here are the photos. https://igorlphoto.smugmug.com/Mugs-Photos

85 mm

This semester I have been challenging myself to grow by limiting myself with restrictions. I thought it would be interesting to shoot a whole event regardless of light and all that at 85 mm to make it work I did choose an event inside and it was the CHSSA luncheon. I do enjoy shooting with my 85 but not for an extended period so thats why I thought this would be an interesting challenging. Here are some photos from the event.

40 mm challenge

In my last blog post I mentioned for the next shoot I did I would work on two things 1. get feet in the photo, and 2. challenge myself to only use a 40 mm after I get my shots on the shot list. I do restrict my self but I have to come up with something right. Here is the gallery link to my images from the volleyball game which I shot and did the challenge. https://lionathletics.com/galleries/?gallery=323 some of them do have feet cropped but that was not me haha. Here are some images from the 40 mm challenge. Overall I think I learned to focus more on what is actually going on and trying to tell the story rather than rushing the moment.

Independent class with Vaughn

This semester is my last semester so I have been constantly asking myself what can I do to get better, whether that is running, photography or writing. After discussing with Vaughn and him telling me to look at some people I thought I would make this first post about what inspires me. Whether it is a who or it is something that gets me going like coffee or just scrolling through instagram. You gave me a couple people to look at Saul Leiter which is very inspiring with his color work and Henri Cartier which is also quite inspiring, which made me think, How am I being different, is it that I am putting people in the middle or is it the cringe crookedness that drives you insane. I don't know but that is what I am going to do. Andrew Kearns is a big inspiration for me where he is relatively known for his moody tones and putting subjects in the middle. Some of his photos are found here. I like the way he makes his images look and that it is in the middle. Another one that I didn't mention was our very own Brittany Gryder I love how she uses objects in the foreground to make things interesting and her attention to detail is inspiring.
With that being said you challenged me to do something different. My next event I am going to shoot everything first get all my shots done, then the rest of the event ill be only using a 40mm f2.8 to try and make something interesting, as well as work on not putting stuff in the middle.

An Eye For A Camera

If our eye was a camera, what lens would it be? Would it be prime or zoom? F 2.8 or F13? To me I think our eye would become a 24mm I would have to say it would be a F 3.5 or F4 because we don’t really get a narrow depth of field but there is one.

Let me give this disclosure first that a camera system is not a human eye. Photography isn’t capturing what the human eye see’s exactly. It is capturing the light or an illusion of how the camera “saw” that moment. Unfortunately, we don’t see the same color as a 1dx Mk II or a Pinhole camera. Our brain processes the signals and everything else a lot different. Our brain is just giving us a constant feed of video that we replay in our mind, those are called memories. The difference with a DSLR and our brain is that when we take the image with our DSLR it shows in our screen and then we go into post and that is it. With our brain, it reaches the conscious part of the brain which stores the memory and it is constantly going through that process of finding memories. At least mine is.  Our vision is video not a photograph. It captures moments like a gif rather than a movie.

This article was going to be me discussing the eye vs a camera lens but my ADHD stopped that and I am content with what I wrote now assuming it would’ve been better and more interesting than that argument.