OT: pro you most admire (at the moment)...

would like to see who you're influenced by.

 

mine...

 

http://www.marktucker.com/index_content.html

 

check out 'chicago road trip', 'india', 'cuba', in fact all of it!

 

steve

Great site! Great pics. Very quickly added to my favorites before rushing out the door to work, bye ;)

Well, this guy is pretty good (David Alan Harvey)

 

 

<a href="http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9910/cuba_index.htm">click here</a>

That's a really nice site Steve, with some great images. I have added it to my favourites too. But it it just me, or is the selective focus of some of the photos digitally derived? Some of the images have a kind of vignet of focus on my screen.

andy

 

I think you're right. If you look at the 'contact' section on the site, there's a pic of his in-

house 'post production' facilities. Also, when he had his old site up, he experimented with

a home made lens glued to a household plunger, strapped to an old hassy body... I think

he called it a 'plungercam'

 

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Galen Rowell - photos that don't depend on several hours of manipulation afterward to make them into something allegedly "artistic."

very strong portfolio, definitely with a characteristic style, albeit heavy on the post-processing. i haven't heard about him before, but most be well recognized to shoot people like Morgan Freeman, Willie Nelson and Billy-Bob Thorton, needless to say. some of the most arresting stuff I' ve seen in quite some time. Thanks for sharing! </p>

 

My "favorites" always changes, but right now I'm enjoying the works of <a href="http://www.carlosserrao.com">Carlos Serrao</a>, <a href="http://www.erikalmas.com">Erik Elmås</a>, <a href="http://www.roberttardio.com/home.htm">Robert Tardio for his still-life lightning</a>, <a href="http://www.ondreabarbe.com/home.html"> Ondrea Barbe's crisp glamour/fashion work</a>, and <a href="http://www.danielastallinger.com/dsf.asp"> Daniela Stallinger's cool website (broadband needed)</a>.

digital manipulation or not, phenomenal work is phenomenal work- thanks for posting the site. (although i agree that the selective focus/blurring is a bit over the top)

Ralph Gibson, Sebastiao Salgado

"phenomenal work is phenomenal work"

 

Define 'phenomenal' in this context.

Steve Pyke

 

http://pyke-eye.com/

At the moment: Phil Borges, Sebastiao Salgado, David Alan Harvey, Barry Brukoff and Silvia Otte, to be continued . . .

Lately adimiring: Robert Park Harrison, Kahn & Selesnick, Lotte Jacobi, Bruce Davidson.

 

Influenced by: Lee Friedlander, billboards, Man Ray's rayograms...<div></div>

Sacha Biyan. Because of the commitment.

[Especially "Reve" and "Passage"]

 

<a href="http://www.sachabiyan.com">HERE</a>

Derek, thank you so much for the link to Sacha Biyan. Very interesting views, philosophy and outstanding photography.

For me it's gotta be Richard Avedon, though labeling him as merely a pro seems a bit

understated.

at the moment id have to say nobody....the recent stuff ive seen has had little influence on me.....in the past of course, thats a different story...

Uh-oh, I only read the subject line, not the post - damn. Avedon's someone I admire, but

I can't say he's influenced me.

Someone mentioned the late Galen Rowell. I knew him, as an acquaintance not a close friend or anything, he was truly remarkable the way he envisioned his images in his head before he went to shoot them and then made all kinds of arrangements to be in the right place at the right time in the right light. Just the opposite of a guy like Cartier-Bresson who I also admire his work a lot but who shot spur-of-the-moment-style.

 

I'm also think Arthur Morris is maybe the best bird photographer ever because most all his shots show the dynamics of the birds in their behavior not just nice sharp portraits and occasional lucky in-flight shots like some others. I'm not really into bird photography much but I got conned into joining a buddy for a workshop with Art, and I had rented this creaky old two-piece Leica 400mm lens from like 1970 which happened to be the longest lens the little corner camera shop had to rent. Art could've just laughed at how I was struggling with it (it was as long as a clarinet and you had to push a button and push/pull the front tube in and out to focus!) and given me a lecture about how his Canon with a stabilizer lens is so much better, but instead he just gave me tips on how to maximize the potential from the limitations of the equipment I could afford. Great guy.

 

I also admire all the war photographers, I can't imagine being able to concentrate on making photos while bombs are exploding and bullets are flying and people are getting killed all around them.

<a href="http://www.jamesnachtwey.com" target="_blank">James Nachtwey</a> of <a href="http://www.viiphoto.com" target="_blank">VII</a>.

What Brad said: there's a difference between admiring someone's work and incorporating it, i.e. being influenced.<p>

 

My currently-admired list changes every week or two. It depends on who I'm looking at closely at the time. Most recently, <a href="http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/" target="_blank">Edward Burtynsky</a> and Alex Webb.<p>

 

Charting your own influences is a bit tricky. You tend to end up listing people who you wish you could be, who you're consciously imitating, or who your work is superficially similar to, while the real source of your inspirations lies elsewhere.<p>

 

Also, as the novelist Margaret Atwood said, "I don't talk much about my own work ... because I happen to believe that an author is always his own trickiest critic."

Tom Stoddart and Felicia Webb. Both with IPG I think. Sorry, no links, but do a quick search - it's worth it.

harvey, I just meant that whether there was digital manipulation or not, I found much of Mark Tucker's work to be phenomenal, and my high opinion was not lowered because of the fact that there may have been some manipulation.

Neil, I have to side with Harvey: I find much of most of Mark Tuckers work phenomenally ruined by the digital hi-jinks. Good work that suddenly seems contrived. I have to wonder what the point is?

Flor Garduno. She strikes a chord in me with most of her images.