Inspiration Leads to Growth… Photography Franchise Personal Project Challenge!
This summer we decided to have a personal project challenge. Every year I try to photograph something just for me. It’s not for a client, so I’m able to be completely creative and execute my vision. It’s a time to stretch my skills and creativity. I grow as a photographer each time I complete a personal project, so this year I challenged my fellow ‘Spoiled Rotten’ Photographers to a personal project competition… and the results are awesome! I’m so proud of my fellow professional photographers, and I know this exercise caused them to grow as a photographer… something we vowed to do when we signed on with Spoiled Rotten Photography.
Vote for your favorite project!
For FUN, the winning photographer will receive a $50 Amazon gift card (and a year’s worth of bragging rights) So without further ado, here are the projects. Please vote for your favorite by Sunday July 22nd at 10pm!
Presenting our 2018 Personal Projects…
Name: Heather Sams
Franchise Location: Colorado Springs
What was your inspiration for this image?: Relationships and the moments we share
What is your theme?: Capturing the connection
Image Title: To Have and to Hold
Name: Melissa Tash
Franchise Location: Huntsville, AL
What was your inspiration for this image?: I saw an image by Melanie Jasmin that intrigued me. It was a little boy with yellow hair and a yellow background, wearing yellow, with a lemon and a sour look on his face. My daughter’s color is orange… I knew she would look amazing with her orange hair on an orange backdrop, holding an orange, and looking cute… a sharp contrast to the feeling of the inspiration image, but using the same color technique.
What is your theme?: Color matched personality
Image Title: Cutie
Name: Kim Hoover
Franchise Location: North Charlotte
What was your inspiration for this image?: Old black and white movies
What is your theme?: Sneaking away from the dance to catch lightning bugs.
Image Title: Tiny Sneaker
Name: Tracy Sisson
Franchise Location: Huntsville, AL
What was your inspiration for this image? : Several paintings by abstract artist Casey Matthews, were my inspiration. She uses layering of mixed media and negative space to create movement and texture.
What is your theme?: “My theme is layering, negative space and movement. I wanted show the layering effect by creating blurred areas in front of and behind the subject. Instead of blank negative space, I used the subject as the ‘negative’ space for the layering to move around.”
Image Title: Sitting Pretty
Name: Megan Bourrell
Franchise Location: Huntsville, AL
What was your inspiration for this image?: Enjoying the view
What is your theme?: Going Home
Image Title: Serenity
Name: Joy Thomas
Franchise Location: Huntsville, AL
What was your inspiration for this image?: Beach/coffee inspired! Time with friends, resting and renewing!
What is your theme?: Coffee and Friends
Image Title: Coffee Makes it Better
Name: Kara Kellner
Franchise Location: Birmingham, AL
What was your inspiration for this image?: Dancing is part of my soul!! Even though I can’t do it anymore, I can get my kicks by living vicariously through my lens. Photographing dancers gives me the same delight as performing on stage. Getting that perfect ‘shot’ of a dancer can be compared to nailing the perfect pirouette.
What is your theme?: Long exposure dance portraits. Shutter speed was slowed to 2 seconds in order to capture a dancer’s movement through motion blur (rather than out-of-focus blur).
Image Title: Motion
Name: Katrina Gatta
Franchise Location: Cleveland, OH
What was your inspiration for this image?: Sweet babies. I want to capture their sweet spirits.
What is your theme?: New born
Image Title: Bearly Dreaming
Name: Elizabeth Bailey
Franchise Location: Alpharetta
What was your inspiration for this image?: Lisa Visser. She creates beautiful, moody, black and white, tween portraits!
What is your theme?: Black and White Tween portraits. Mine is not as moody as the inspiration, but I wanted the freckles to show.
Image Title: Fearless
Name: Melissa Guarino
Franchise Location: Birmingham
What was your inspiration for this image?: I love to ride around looking at abandoned places. I like to think about what they used to be or how they looked in their prime. I love to imagine the character they once had. I did an entire series of abandoned places in my hometown of Birmingham, including an abandoned hospital. I decided on this image because the NO TRESPASSING sign made it seem extra “forbidden.”
What is your theme?: Street Photography, abandoned places, still photography
Image Title: Days Gone By
Name: Jackie Kelly
Franchise Location: Huntsville, AL
What was your inspiration for this image?: Tom Sierak’s ‘The Audition’
What is your theme?: Artistic impression of Sierak’s painting
Image Title: Captive Audience
Don’t forget to vote!
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