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Is there anything original left?
If I wanted to be inspired by seeing something I have never seen before, where would I have to look. Who is doing something in photography that is totally and completely unique? Is it still possible? For me at certain stages of my photography it was Kimberly Gremillion, Connie Imboden, Anton Corbijn, Arno Rafael Minkkenin. The people were pioneers to me when I first saw their work. Naturally they have their inspirations as well. Who knows someone who is doing something extraordinary and original? Jul 01 06 05:30 pm Link Anything really original usually gets ignored until someone famous/wealthy/influential enough convinces people that it's good. There's lots of originality out there, but you and I will never see it until it's all over with. Jul 01 06 06:44 pm Link  he does some orginal stuff, at least when he first does lots of it it is so long as it lasts. G Jul 01 06 06:55 pm Link Originality died out 20,000 years ago. Or something. I dunno. NBC told me that if I haven't seen it already, it's new to me. Should I believe them? Jul 01 06 07:00 pm Link Take a look at www.e-z-smith.com . Ernie is a friend of mine and an interesting outsider artist/photographer. "Nudes Without Dignity" is a good starting point. Jul 01 06 07:39 pm Link this thread has been started before Jul 01 06 11:47 pm Link Star wrote: LOL Jul 01 06 11:50 pm Link There are VERY many photo concepts that haven't been covered yet, we just have yet to discover them Jul 01 06 11:51 pm Link To be inspired outside of photography then: Read a book Look at paintings Watch people on the street Take drugs Look at history and reinterprit it Take your dreams and bring themm to life Barf on some paper That my 2 cents and I am sticking with them... -S Jul 01 06 11:56 pm Link Try to change a current idea, think out of the box..take something generic and make it original...I think that there are many orginal ideas out there left to find...there just getting harder to think of... Try to make images that go to a set of key words....use techniques that writers or other kinds of visual artists use for inspiration.. Also look at other mediums of art and try to interpret that into your medium...it's endless.... best of luck, GG Jul 01 06 11:57 pm Link Glitterguru is the best and most original photographer I've seen on MM so far. If there's someone better, I'd like to see them. Jul 02 06 12:01 am Link Class Act Photography wrote: with all due respect to glitterguru, it is not my style. I would however like to offer up two names who I think are highly unique to MM in my opinion. Velvet Scars and Josh Newman are brilliant. Jul 02 06 12:09 am Link Shoot what you see. Shoot what you feel. If you do it with emotion, it is original. I like to think that while there is stuff in my portfolio that has been "done before" it still says "Yani was here" . I am original, delusional or somewhere in between. Just a matter of perception.... Jul 02 06 12:10 am Link The Things Ive Seen wrote: There might be something extraordinary but there is nothing original. It's all been done before. Jul 02 06 12:13 am Link Everything has been done. There's nothing new under the sun....if you want to see it that way. Otherwise, it's vast and it's infinite. My suggestion, to get outside of your own head, is to WORK it out. Change your methodology, subject matter, lighting, etc. I once heard someone suggest shooting a couple hundred pictures without looking through the viewfinder...throwaways probably, but you might find a new way of looking, derived from something you yourself have done. Personally, I think it's a huge trap to focus on the "it's already been done" complaint. So much ground-breaking work in the arts comes not out of the BIG IDEA, but out of subtle riffs inside of established genre, sometimes simple, sometimes complex... that's all for now folks. Jul 02 06 12:25 am Link Although I do mostly glamour... I always try to be different with my photos.. but everything is inspired by something. Jul 02 06 12:27 am Link N.O.I.D. No Original Ideas under the sun. Jul 02 06 12:28 am Link jtsmith wrote: My ambitions far exceeds my abilities. Jul 02 06 12:28 am Link G_Makeup wrote:
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