Who is your favorite famous photographer?

[budmonster]

I was just looking at some of Ansel Adams photographs and I just love his work especially his Jeffrey Pine, Sentinel Dome. He has to be my favorite photographer; his landscapes in Yosemite are amazing. I guess my second favorite is Sally Mann. She is just so unique with her photos.

So who are yours?

[KramBerries]

I gotta go with GDad.

[Evad]

Jeff Fillmore!!!! :thumbsup2

[ukcatfan]

KramBerries!

I like Annie Leibovitz, but consider her more of a photographic/graphic artist than a pure photographer anymore.

[Jeff Fillmore]

I gotta go with GDad.

Looooser!

[Gdad]

Famous? Can't think of anybody really.

Photographers who inspire me? Aside from so many people on this forum I have some on Flickr- a few off the top of my head are Lost America (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lostamerica/), *6261 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/6261/), HIRØ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hiro-fd/), yu+ichiro (http://www.flickr.com/photos/miyano/), Stuck in Customs (http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/), iHeartDimSum (http://www.flickr.com/photos/gmach/), Tommy Oshima (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tommyoshima/), Jersey Yen (http://www.flickr.com/photos/fujr/), *Kit* (http://www.flickr.com/photos/_kit/), and 0bli0 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/0bli0/).

[ColleenG]

Jeff and Tom

[ukcatfan]

0bli0 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/0bli0/).

I almost forgot about our old friend 0bli0. He pretty much puts every one of us around here to shame!

[james786]

You are right these both are really good photographer. I had also seen their shots I like their work. We have almost same taste of photography.

[wisnieea]

JoeyL

I may be biased though, he is one of my best friends :)

[emmabelle]

well I'm not so sure about famous ones, but

Mark, Gdad, Dcg0317 and Groucho are some of my favorites here! :thumbsup2

[racreel]

Galen Rowell (http://www.photomediaonline.com/?p=73)

http://photomediaonline.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/GR-AA0727_GRowell.jpg

[AndrewWG]

As far as the Dis is concerned, 0bli0 is by far my favorite. Too bad he ha gone missing again. I always enjoyed his posts.

As far as a "professional" is concerned I really enjoy Art Wolfe (http://www.artwolfe.com/). His nature shots are great and very inspiring. Since he usually doesn't use equipment that is all that different than mine, it helps give me a little confidence now and then.

[gokenin]

Henri Cartier-Bresson


Proves that street photography is perfectly acceptable and that you can actually take what these days are called "snapshot style" pictures and still produce some great images

[WDWFigment]

I like the style of photography that Stuck in Customs guy (Trey something?) does, but I think his HDR image processing is widely hit-or-miss. I also like Bryan Peterson. Other than that, I really like specific images more than specific photographers. Most of the time, I couldn't tell you who took what. :confused3

[Chikabowa]

JoeyL

I may be biased though, he is one of my best friends :)

I love him. :love: Definitely on my short list of fav's. Which reminds me that I haven't checked his blog in a while... gotta go do that now. :)

[crazydadguy]

Ansel Adams and Art Wolfe. I enjoy nature photography way more than I enjoy people.

[JoeDif]

I really enjoy Joel Sartore, a National Geographic contributing photographer.

[Icemann]

For a Dis board photographer Gdad, like his work and style.For a professional photographer has to be Clyde Butcher I love his Everglade's work and it's B+W it's something to experience

[Altair]

Adams did his work with only his camera and a darkroom.:worship:

[pointandshoot]

Galen Rowell (http://www.photomediaonline.com/?p=73)

http://photomediaonline.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/GR-AA0727_GRowell.jpg

+1

Absolutely! I really miss his articles. His books are must reads.

[YEKCIM]

i gotta go with gdad.

Ya beat me to it!

[MarkBarbieri]

There aren't any particular pros that I follow that much. I tend to follow people like Joe McNally, Scott Kelby, and Michael Reichmann. It's not because I love their photography (although some of it is really good). It's because I love to learn how they do what they do.

Honestly, I like seeing pictures from regular people as much as from the pros. I love seeing my friends pics when they come back from a shoot. They mean more to me than yet another great polar bear pup shot. I also really enjoy seeing pictures of people here. I've seen some really incredible stuff here. Groucho's fireworks shots from a barge are a great example.

I also love to watch how people here improve over time. Usually that is newbies going from basic snapshooters to creative artists. Sometimes it is watching some of the experienced shooters here learning new techniques and pursuing new ideas, like the light writing stuff done a while ago.

[jann1033]

not famous (yet)and still alive, Nan Engen does some really interesting creative stuff...she uses a software program to do it with. i tried it. it's really hard to do. it made me appreciate her stuff even more lol http://www.imagekind.com/GalleryProfile.aspx?gid=df26f12f-4866-4747-9e0a-41b9f9be64ee

famous but dead, Dorothea Lange, imo her photos truly say 1000 words, especially the" everyday people" type shots
http://artseal.ypguides.net/page/15klg/Figurative_Portraiture_Special_Exhibits.html?gclid =CLWh47DP3J8CFYswpAod1lljHg they make me wish i wasn't to chicken to ask for model releases

[Miss Kelly]

JoeyL

I may be biased though, he is one of my best friends :)

I LOVE Joey's work. You have a very talented friend. :)

[WDWFigment]

There aren't any particular pros that I follow that much. I tend to follow people like Joe McNally, Scott Kelby, and Michael Reichmann. It's not because I love their photography (although some of it is really good). It's because I love to learn how they do what they do.

Honestly, I like seeing pictures from regular people as much as from the pros. I love seeing my friends pics when they come back from a shoot. They mean more to me than yet another great polar bear pup shot. I also really enjoy seeing pictures of people here. I've seen some really incredible stuff here. Groucho's fireworks shots from a barge are a great example.

I also love to watch how people here improve over time. Usually that is newbies going from basic snapshooters to creative artists. Sometimes it is watching some of the experienced shooters here learning new techniques and pursuing new ideas, like the light writing stuff done a while ago.

I have to say that I really agree with this. Heck, I even think it's fun to look at my own photos and see the progression. It's much more meaningful to me to see the progression and work of people I know. Plus, these are subject matters I actually care about.

While polar bears are beautiful and shots of them are as well, they've almost become a dime a dozen at this point. Same with pictures of haggard homeless people (this is a personal point of contention for me--I refuse to consider someone a great photographer if their portfolio only consists of homeless people shots--homeless people universally look sad and aged beyond their years, I get the point). With nature and landscape shots, I think the bar is a lot higher (at least for me) because so much has already been accomplished. It's more difficult to be unique--to be "awesome".

I admire many people here a lot more than I admire the "big guns".

[Neil65]

Jeffrey Pine, for sure