Kris D'Amico Photography

February 16th, 2009 by Kris

I was emailed over the weekend by a gentleman, Kirk, and he had one very pointed question for me.

“Why do we need to look at other people’s photos, your blog is suposded to be about taking a better photo, not look at this cool <expletive> that I found on the internet today. What gives man?”

Well, first off Kirk, thank you so much for reading! I am always open to what people have to say and their opinions. And here is a very pointed anwser,

Unless you see what’s out there that is “leading edge” and pushing the envelope, you work will become stagnant and stale.

This journey of being an image maker and story teller is not about finding something and sticking with it! This is a walk, it need to be more about the trip than the destination. Feel free to disagree with me, but I whole heatedly believe that we simply have enough time on this earth to stop learning, even for a few weeks or days!! So, all that to be said, I post these other artist work, not to say shoot like this or look how cool your work could be if you did  this – I post them up so that you might think about lighting, photoshop, camera angles, or any other of the 1000 pieces to the image making process in a way that you may have not thought about in the future!

Now go out and shoot something beautiful, or terrible. The important thing is that you are out there with your camera!!

~Kris