Sean Ross

Cool photos and series that I find to help my photography develop.

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Interior Photography Shoot- Fire and Ice Hotel

For this shoot I was able to shoot the beautiful Protea Hotel, Fire and Ice in Cape Town. I learnt a lot from this shoot with it being my first interior photography photo shoot, realizing the importance of styling and the editing of it making everything look perfectly polished and clean.

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Dany Eid

Dany Eid is a Lebanese photographer who specializes is corporate,  architectural and landscape photography. Utilizing his degree in interior design and painting to help him create beautiful and vivid imagery from an understanding from both sides. Large amounts of his work has strong symmetry, showcasing the architecture the way that the architect wanted it to be shown. He shoots very wide to showcase space in his architectural work.

I love this type of photography as it gives the places a massive sense of space and scale, creating warm welcoming environments that would invite people to the area, making them want to travel there.

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Mike Kelly

Kelly is an American photographer based in Los Angeles, who’s work is primarily of architecture, interiors and commercial spaces. He uses intense editing techniques and blends multiple images to create clean, vibrant and beautiful scenes.

One of my favorite projects of his is his work from Iceland where he focused on capturing the unique architecture of the country, with its modern buildings with sharp symmetry to the old houses and churches which have been there.

Such as in this image above where he uses the natural symmetry of the architecture to and the ambient light to fill the scene with dramatic lighting, amplified by the dramatic skies, which he compares to the modern architecture of the image below, utilizing the same methods to give the image a similar tone and feel.

His commercial work also utilizes symmetry to have the viewer follow all the lines of the image to force them to observe the entire scene. Such as in these photos of the theater bellow  where the the technique combined with the vibrant colours and soft lighting that fills the room creates an astheticly pleasing image which seems inviting to the viewer.

The final part of his work that I love is the editing that he utilities as well as the use of natural light to create these scenes that have a welcoming feel which show of the scenes and there surroundings as can be seen on his web page here where he showcases the dramatic changes in the images that he has shot and edited.

To view more of his work visit his webpage mpkelley.com 

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Will Burrard Lucas

Burrard Lucas is a wildlife photographer based in Zambia, who travels the world documenting wildlife in a very unique way. Burrard lucas invented the Beetle Cam.

These remote control camera setups allow him to get unique shots of wildlife that have never been done before. The vehicle allows him to get close, adjust settings and view what it is seeing. 

The Beetle Cam allows him to capture reactions from wildlife to the vehicle.

The shots also create a unique perspective of making the viewer feel very small as the subject of the image is shot from such a low point of view.

The Beetle Cam follows what many photographers use in their portrait photography the idea of if getting closer makes a better photo. Also shooting wide to enhance the perspective.

Burrard Lucas’ work showcases a new perspective on wildlife photography giving his own spin on something that for the majority is hard to create new unique images. The photographs give the animals a sense of power rather than just being an object in a photo.

To view more of hi work go to his website at burrard-lucas.com

To find out ore about the Beetle Cam and Camtraptions go to camtraptions.com

To help support with conservation he is involved with here is the list of them burrard-lucas.com

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Michael Shainblum- Starscapes

Michael is a photographer and videographer who is based in San Francisco. His star photography is unique compared to majority of photographers in the same field, as his photos will generally either be a panoramic format stars-scape or he will use the stars as a background for light painting in a piece of art in the foreground.

Such as in the image above he creates a massive sense of scale by capturing the entire milky way and using the overall ambient light that creates the shadows in the valley emphasising the overall scale. Te warm city lights on the horizon are used to make the point that we are smaller than everything around us with the stars over shadowing us and the vast valleys below  spanning further than we can reach.

In his other works like the one above he uses light painting to highlight a subject of art with a background again using the vastness of the stars to create scale. As well as using the ancient stars to complement the age of the subject.

Please go and look at more of his work at his website shainblumphot

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Mohammed Reza Domiri Ganji

Mohammad is an Iranian photographer who focuses largely on capturing panoramic’s of architecture. He placed 3rd in the Kolor Panobook Awards and received a bronze medal in the Khayyam International Photography Awards.

The series that I will be blogging about is a set photographs that Mohammed captured of the interior of Mosques. These particular Images where taken using a lens with large barrel distortion and where later cropped to a panoramic format. These images have amazingly breathtaking colours and vibrant lighting which creates a warm and friendly atmosphere. 

As shown in the above image the atmosphere that I spoke about already is shown strongly in this photograph with the light pouring in through the stainglass filling through with their vibrant colours. The image also contains strong symmetry making the image easy to look at as the lines are simple and can be easily followed around the photograph.

This particular image shows a massive sense of scale  with the distortion creating a massive exaggeration of the shapes.  and lines.This image has amazing warm lighting created by the natural and artificial light around the room reflecting off all gold colours and white walls.

If you want to see more of his work he has alot more on his website as well as more detailed information about himself on his website gravity.ir 

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Stephen Wilkes- California One

This series by Wilkes derives from Wilkes’ book.

This book shows a trip that Wilkes took along the californian coast line from the North to the South, showcasing the culture and people stretching the length of the state. 

Majority of the images being panoramic’s with human aspects in them. I believe this was to show not just the character of the people, but to show more about them by showing more of their lives. 

An example of this is the cover image of the book where the man is shown in what seems like a old beach house with the man seeming to just fit in with the building. The small distant space  o the right gives the building a sense of size as well as location with the background being empty and dry.

Other images in the series follow this theme of giving the people character and creating location. Such as the images below.

In the series he also creates location with landscape panoramic’s to capture larger scenes that are more general to the location such as the image of the Golden Gates Bridge.

To view more of Wilkes’s work from his book you can see more on his website at http://www.stephenwilkes.com/

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Matt Molloy Time Slice

Matt Molloy is a photographer who focuses largely i showing a long span of time in a single photograph using firstly a technique that he created which involved the blending of a time-lapse to create unique and artistic photographs.

He then stated creating time slices. This technique involves the slicing of a small portion of an image generally around 5-10 pixels wide and placing them next to one another to create a blend of time as in the example below.

I find that these photos create something out of the ordinary making what would be a rather common landscape into a creative, unique and artistic shot with vibrant and strong colours that draw your eye to the photograph, the draw to his images is also because they are not natural making the person think twice about it looking again to figure it out. This is why I like these images.

To see ore of his work he regularly posts on his Flickr blog and his tumblr blogs:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/matt_molloy/

http://matt-molloy.tumblr.com/

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New York Panorams

For my class I am having to research ideas for a portfolio book, after coming up with an Idea my lecturer refereed me to look at Mickael Subotski for his work of panoramic in Polsemore Prison. With the images on google coming up with these images of Subotski’s.

Though these images showed me an amazing use of panoramic s as well as being very beautiful photographs its when I continued to scroll through google images that I found this Image.

I was very grateful for Googles random search results when I found this picture of New York Panorama. These sets of photographs where taken by four photographers Matt Weber, Mikhael Subotzky, Andy Frazier and Sam Rohn. 

These particular photographs of Coney Island among many others are the ones that I found truly striking, with bright vibrant colors contrasting brilliantly against the dull and dark foregrounds and skies.

The photos create an abandoned feel with  place that is usually packed with excitement to be an image taken out a horror story creates an amazing juxtaposition. 

If you want to see more of these amazing panoramics among hundreds more go to there website newyorkpanorama.com.

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These photos of Wilkes’ create a cold mundane feel producing and giving the the feel of the working conditions in these factories. The centred and symmetrical compositions create a very strict and ordered effect that too showcase the life within the factories, with the strict and ordered regime of the country. This as well as the crisp perfect images truly created a stunning series.

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I really love Shainblum’s photography, his technique of blending multiple photos to create a crisp large and overall clear image. In this particular piece I find his use of light painting in the foreground creates a more balanced image.

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