Photo Inspiration

 Joe Seck

12/7/2022

Art 240


                              Ernst Haas






    The inspiration for my upcoming forty images is Ernst Hass, Hass was a fantastic photographer. In almost every aspect, from his work in color photography to what inspired me, his work using a macro lens. After doing my best and shooting over six hundred photos for this assignment and half of them are blurry messes. I've gained a tremendous amount of respect for those who shoot using a macro lens because it is anything but easy you will see what you think is a fantastic image with perfect lighting, so you go to take it, and you look back, and it is just a little bit blurry. The photos being just a little bit blurry can ruin a macro picture, especially when shooting nature, where clarity and texture make the image. 



    The images above these are some of my favorite macro works from Haas. The top left photo with the roses and water drops is super interesting and very well taken to get that level of detail. I wanted to start this assignment by just photographing flowers. The issue with this was it was the middle of November, and most of the flowers were going to start dying if they were not already dead. So I moved on to just photographing things that caught my eye and that I thought would look interesting looking at through a macro lens, which at times would be difficult. I ended up really enjoying it, and the result of getting a super focused and beautifully lit image was very rewarding, as some of the images I took with this lens are some of my best. Getting back to my inspiration from Haas, I saw the image shown in the bottom right before I went out to shoot, and I knew that I wanted to take something similar, and I did, I have a couple of images that have clear inspiration from this photo. 













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