I've spent a few weeks writing up on some of the photographers I follow and it's really got me thinking. Photography is really an expression. The vision of the photographer.
I primarily follow a lot of gig/music photographers because that is the genre of photography that I enjoy the most. I like to photograph the artists on stage, seeing their passion for what they do reflected in their expressions, seeing their interactions with their instruments and also their bandmates as well as, most importantly, their audience. Each photographer is different in how they shoot their experiences. You have photographers who, like myself, photograph the artists and their expressions and their interactions, others will focus more on the character of the artists and how they portray their on stage persona. Other enjoy capturing the reactions of the crowds alongside the bands interaction with them and the entire atmosphere of the venue as a whole.
There is no wrong or right way to photograph something, whatever genre that may be. I also enjoy shooting landscapes but I don't follow a lot of landscape photographers. Nor could I name many. That doesn't make me anymore of a photographer though.
My tutor suggested I make notes on photographers I like/don't like.
I have individually listed the ones that I actively follow, most of which I see their work regularly and its work that I admire. Each photograph I see that I like, I take some sort of inspiration from but I will always create images true to me.
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