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Other Forms of Inspiration | Curt Morgan | The Creators Project

Brenda — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:52:54 +0000

I am always looking to other industries for inspiration for my own work. I usually turn to commercial photography for that push to go outside of my box. I love to watch what Chase Jarvis is doing and today I found an insane video on his blog about a filmmaker who is using an incredible Cineflex camera…..video. It’s AWESOME!! The rig that he has with this camera mounted to a pick up truck and to a helicopter is amazing.

So today I am going to expose you to something different then portrait photography. Enjoy!!

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A Dash of Fun

Brenda — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:57:58 +0000

I love Color Me Katie! I haven’t been to her site in awhile and decided to venture over there and see what was new. I love this project and definitely watch the video of it all together. Her creativity is so much fun! Enjoy!

Live Blogging

We Can Learn from Anyone!

Brenda — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:42:37 +0000

Something to share with you today. This is not photography specific and I encourage you to also go to Zack Arias’ site to read the story behind this short video.

Inspiration indeed!!!

Zack Arias…thank you for putting this out there to grab our attention and remind us of why we “keep hitting the pavement”.

Check Out…Color Me Katie!

Brenda — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:13:02 +0000

I found this project through another photographers website and just had to take a look. This concept is so much fun! If I was only brave enough to pull something like this off, photographing pure strangers on the street is really hard. These are wonderful and for her to be so patient to wait for the right person to walk by that matches up with her creation. You should go to her site and see more of these images and then watch the little documentary video of her talking about how she does it.

Color Me Katie : Shadow Project

Here is one of her images…

Zhang Jingna : Inspired By

Brenda — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:17:38 +0000

Wow I haven’t done one of these posts in a long time!!! Time for some inspiration…..

I somehow stumbled across this website while in Facebook. I am completely in awe of the images that this photographer has created. She is a young photographer of 20 and has only been doing photography for 2 years. Her images are just beautiful! You must browse over to her website and blog to see what I am talking about. To get your attention here are a few images of hers!

Watching Annie Leibovitz Photograph

Brenda — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:39:48 +0000

I love to watch behind the scenes of Annie Leibovitz photographing portrait subjects. Last year there was a video of her photographing Queen Elizabeth that was fascinating! This video is of her photographing Conny Dufgran, the co-founder of Profoto. It’s fun to watch, if your a photographer that is. One thing that I found so funny was that this video catches Annie ‘chimping’!!! Love it!

Here is the image from the shoot! I love everything that is going on in this image but the most important, the lighting is absolutely PERFECT! Click the image below to be taken to the website to view the video.

What Inspires You?

Brenda — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:42:53 +0000

There is a catalog that I receive every few months and when I see it in the mailbox I squeal. I do! The first thing I want to do once I step into my home with my precious catalog is sit down with my sticky notes and sharpie and go to town. What am I talking about?

I always find great inspiration for my home and instantly want to start achieving that. I have been in a ‘we can’t keep all this junk anymore so lets throw it away’ mood this week. I have purged many things this week that I have been keeping for NO reason at all. Prints that arrived unsatisfactory from my lab, what am I going to do with those! I stored them but no longer. Boxes that my prints arrive in, they went out with the recycling today. Books. Books. Books. My husband and I are book freaks and to add to that obsession I love my magazines even more! I have issue after issue of Photography magazines like you wouldn’t believe. No, I did not toss these out because I can’t. Do I go back and look at them? Very rarely but they make me feel good I guess to have them around so I’ve been organizing them.

Potterybarn always has great ideas for displaying photographs and art. Last year I had my entertainment area designed something similar to this photo. Our flat screen tv sat on a cabinet and I had family photos arranged all around it. Here are more images that inspire me for wall displays. So the next time you are looking at purchasing wall portraits, find something that inspires you and create a look in your home with your family photos. Even those these inspiration images have fine art displayed, they would mean even more if your family images were in there.

What inspires YOU?!

Inspired By {Summit Studio}

Brenda — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:21:37 +0000

Summit Studio is right here in Fort Collins, CO! Holla! I was introduced to this photographer months ago by a friend of mine. Darren Mahuron is so creative with his work and how he shoots a scene and then transforms it in Photoshop. I can not describe his work with the correct words so I think you should just head on over to his site and check it out for yourself. Be sure to check out his video’s with behind the scene’s of a recent campaign he did for Fort Collins.

inspired.by.{John Russo}

Brenda — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:47:55 +0000

This is a must see site!

We all love celebrities and seeing beautiful images of them is always fun. BUT…..John Russo’s images are what is making them so beautiful. The lighting…perfect! In the Fashion Portfolio the images of Jaime Pressly are gorgeous. The black and white image of Brian White is stunning as well.

Go check out John Russo’s portfolio site!

inspired.by.{steve highfield}

Brenda — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:48:24 +0000

Wow! I found another photographer talking about Steve Highfield being an inspiration and his images are truely beautiful. This makes me want to go venture out when there is a full moon and shoot. I used to do this but all those images are on film. I’ll have to dig some up sometime. Ha! As I was looking at his images, especially the rural shots, I found myself feeling ‘home’. That will always be The Nebraska Panhandle for me out on my parents farm. Check out his images…you might be inspired, too!

EDIT: Ok, I just found his PBase galleries that he updates more often. Some *amazing* images!