Where do you get your inspiration from?

sphynge

I'm always looking for inspiration for light, posing, expression, composition. My primary sources are:
- paintings, especially the 19th century / turn of the 20th
- music videos
- magazines, especially fashion magazines

Where do you draw your inspiration from?

Kinkajou

Samm Blake and Dan O'Day (both Aussies). I LOVE their work. I am a member of Fearless Photographers and I like to look through their competition picks for some creative and interesting images.

I do spend some time with Vogue every couple of months and flag the images/ads that I like and try to figure out what I like about them and how they were set up. I've stopped picking up wedding magazines altogether... they were great when I was getting started, but at this point I don't feel that there is enough work really pushing the edge of creativity in them for real "inspiration" for me.

Great topic! Can't wait to see what everyone else says!

Moogle Pepper

Travel books. Seriously.

Agnieszka

I check out a looot of other wedding photographers work and have occasionally a peek at wedding magazines ("studying" what they print and like has been very helpful to me). I also "like" other photographers FB pages, so I can keep my mind fresh. Not trying to copy their poses but it somehow keeps my mind fresh.

tenoverthenose

Movies and the photography section of the LA Times.

Jeff_Milo

While I always look at a lot of other wedding photographers work for ideas, I truly draw my inspriation from my clients. I limit the number of weddings I shoot a year which really alows me to get to know my clients and figure them out then work the posing and mood of the pictures around their personalities.

Matthew Saville

One "wedding-y" photograph that I've always admired is Annie Leibovitz' image of Nicole Kidman (?) on a theater stage. GORGEOUS shot, it's just so dang perfectly done.

=Matt=

Foques

uh.. I guess it is wrong of me, but I get it from our local guys - Heather, Matt, Angie and so on..

Overfocused

Foques wrote: »

uh.. I guess it is wrong of me, but I get it from our local guys - Heather, Matt, Angie and so on..

So wrong! :nah


Hundreds if not thousands of great inspired ideas or breakthroughs that have changed our world were birthed on a toilet seat. There's no law to where good inspiration can come from

Matthew Saville

Overfocused wrote: »

So wrong! :nah


Hundreds if not thousands of great inspired ideas or breakthroughs that have changed our world were birthed on a toilet seat. There's no law to where good inspiration can come from

Now I feel like a toilet. ! :P

=Matt=