Comments on: Promoting Passion Week 44: Defining Images

By: John grant

John grant — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:21:04 +0000

Hey Brooke love your blog to say the five steps was like hearing a voice in my head that with words I new but didn’t speak thanks for sending me down the the right road.
John

By: Mary-Claire

Mary-Claire — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 20:36:34 +0000

I love seeing everyone’s favorites! And thanks, Brooke, for the 5 pointers. Excellent ideas for us all as we move forward!

My favorites:
http://www.maryclairefredette.photography/dont-lose-your-head/

I just finished this about 2 am today. I love it because I knew in my head what I wanted and made it happen even though I did not know how when I started editing. And I love the colors, tone and movement.

http://www.maryclairefredette.photography/butterface/

I think I’m the only one who likes this one! LOL! I like it because it tells (at least to me) a story, and it’s simple. This one took me about 6 months to get right, so it’s hard-won.

http://www.maryclairefredette.photography/juggling/

I love the colors, the movement and that I managed to work it out all ahead of time. And I was staying someplace little and forced myself to create something, with the balls as my only interesting props.

http://www.maryclairefredette.photography/up-and-away/

I love that it was fun to do, dirty, windy, I fell off my Pelican case (again), lost my remote. And I learned to create rain and put body parts together to make me fly.

As marianenenko said, I’m always learning and that makes me happy.

By: marianenenko

marianenenko — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 06:46:44 +0000

Hi, Brooke!

Thank you very much for this wonderful video. I have thought a lot on this topic. I wrote a list of things that I want to try this year concerning photography on the 1st of January.

I would like to share 4 pictures that I created this year that are my personal favorites. Here they are:

1. https://www.flickr.com/photos/mariam_pic/11856970543/

What I like about it: simple prop, two characters in picture (usually I use one character), story)

2. https://www.flickr.com/photos/mariam_pic/15158238685/

What I like about it: narrow color palette, sense of pictorialism.

3. https://www.flickr.com/photos/mariam_pic/13968360632/

What I like about it: simple prop, colors.

4. https://www.flickr.com/photos/mariam_pic/15455075202/

What I like about it: colors, symmetry.

What I love about photography is that I always learning. And this process is endless 

By: Cathryn Mok

Cathryn Mok — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 03:38:25 +0000

Thanks Brooke. Love your imagination and mindset. You helped me a lot and defined who I am. Its make me keep moving forward and more meaningful of my images. I’m so happy do what I want to do and spill out my own voice into my images. Here is my little space of my heart : http://www.facebook.com/CathrynM.Photography

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 22:55:52 +0000

I love these posts, keep ’em coming. 🙂 Thanks for reminding us that there is still time to create this year. Here are some I liked from this year:
http://susanholstein.com/#/gallery-5/
http://susanholstein.com/#/gallery-3/
I have come to realize that I don’t like images that are too everyday looking. I like them to be slightly more stylized and moody.

By: Margherita Introna

Margherita Introna — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 19:26:54 +0000

What a great exercise Brooke, thank you! As I listened to your video, I knew instantly which images from my work I would choose and why… Here are the 4 images from this year so far that have spoken to me the most…

Blind Belief: https://www.facebook.com/MargheritaIntronaPhotography/photos/a.165320056962586.1073741828.165302450297680/312614325566491/?type=3&theater
Hope Prevails: https://www.facebook.com/MargheritaIntronaPhotography/photos/pb.165302450297680.-2207520000.1414437039./338795566281700/?type=3&theater
Healing Powers: https://www.facebook.com/MargheritaIntronaPhotography/photos/pb.165302450297680.-2207520000.1414437039./319889724838951/?type=3&theater
Beloved: https://www.facebook.com/MargheritaIntronaPhotography/photos/a.165320056962586.1073741828.165302450297680/283949515099639/?type=3&theater

In each of these I love that there is movement and in most of them, also a dramatic sky. These are the two main things I love to include in my images. There is also a main colour that stands out, and they all have a glow of colouring that I feel is very much a part of my style, which is a fine touch of purple hue.

In most instances my work is autobiographical in nature. These images are all self-portraits and hence why they generally speak to me the most. These are my stories and my emotions.

The following themes stand out: belief, hope, sadness and love. The props used are either very simple items (like the lamp and the strip of material to form a blindfold) or have great meaning to me (my beloved cat Bono and the shark jaw that used to belong to my beloved father).

The image “Healing Powers” stands out a little differently from the other 3 images I’ve chosen… This is because it is darker and using a very different type of outdoor space. It is a theme I would like to pursue further and I am very happy I took the risk and tried something different with this one as to me, it came out better than I had hoped.

Still many, many images in my folders waiting to be processed and so many ideas in my heart waiting to be created…

By: Jen Sulak

Jen Sulak — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 18:03:14 +0000

I am still working through my year…so my “favs” could still be pending. But I have a great handful that i’m thankful for. Most of them always tie back to the MEMORIES of people that i meet and the experiences we had together. It could be as simple as being home and calling a friend or traveling to a new city or state and seeing new things and meeting new people. I believe that our journey is OUR JOURNEY and i love enjoying the simple things of life as well as the crazee schedules and travel.

Here are some favs right now….
“clinging to dreams” – created when i jetted off to PA to spend time with friends. It was so great to learn more about life AND create near a lighthouse. The space was unreal and so peaceful.

https://500px.com/photo/87772461/clinging-to-dreams-by-jen-sulak

“where intersections meet”
the reason why i love this is because it incorporate my love for environment as a part of my art. I used the tunnel in boston to create an intersection across her while she is also split up into various sections. This can represent out lives…we have times where things connect and times where they don’t see to. This image for me represents how everything seems to be slowly connecting and meeting at intersections in my whole life. Take in Mystic CT when i decided to get adventurous and go to mystic pizza and see the area.

https://500px.com/photo/85940737/where-the-intersections-meet-by-jen-sulak?from=user_library

This last one, i can’t find the flipped version…hehehe but i’m still posting it 😛 “healing in the light”
I love this one because of the memories i created whilst jumping around in a forbidden area. The city was a toxic wasteland of a mining operation and this area was a little eery and abandoned. The model was so helpful in our creations together because she knew the area better than me. We had a great time sneaking around and making memories. I also like this one because i made part of her dress out of broken glass. I felt that in most things in my life – healing comes in the light. Whenever i feel broken – i know that broken-ness is used for a beautiful dress and when it casts the light – it is brighter than anything i could put together. I know, i’m rambling…but u know how it goes.

https://500px.com/photo/79069733/healing-in-the-light-by-jen-sulak?from=user_library

Brooke, there is so much more – but because i have run out of time and i’m trying to be wise…i won’t ever forget our times at after dark and the images we created at creative live. I’m so thankful for those memories. I kinda get addicted to making more of them! 🙂

Everyone, enjoy your monday!!!!

By: Rwick

Rwick — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 15:59:55 +0000

Looking back at my photos, I would have to say these two are my favorite. They hold meaning to me and they were ideas I wasn’t sure would turn out. Plus I was worried how people would react, but I did them anyways!

https://www.facebook.com/425140184262990/photos/a.425141560929519.1073741825.425140184262990/597826523661021/?type=1&theater

https://www.facebook.com/425140184262990/photos/a.425152220928453.1073741830.425140184262990/589004397876567/?type=1&theater

By: Paulo Alexandre Carvalho

Paulo Alexandre Carvalho — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 15:13:32 +0000

Once again, wise words. I will restrict only to this area (fine art / conceptual), in which I want to continue to learn and create. My portfolio consists of 9 pictures, because I started this adventure this year. Of these images, I highlight the following. The first two, I AM TRAVELER, from your challenge ”I AM ME” and Meditation with tune and harmony, has to do with what I am. I am a person who like and need to have this relationship with nature that calms my anxiety states. I’m missing a lot right now, I feel anxious. The last one has to do with what I was. Someone, who was caged in your fears. I always been afraid to share everything I did, for fear of being badly done or someone not like what I did, and that shut me in a gray and turbulent world, a world without color. I sometimes feel down, and the fears invade my being again. So, when I look at the picture, I recall that I need to fight these fears to not return to this world again. So, it mean a lot to me. Today I share everything and anything I do, not caring if someone like it or not. I like, I love and am happy when I do it. This year, so far, has been magnificent in terms of photography. I changed my opinion about this type of work and began to interpret it another way. In such a manner, that I am fascinated by this world and about everything I’m learning. Love your pictures, as always. <3

https://www.facebook.com/paulocarvalhophotography/photos/a.351378011692853.1073741829.351367031693951/351372511693403/?type=1&theater

https://www.facebook.com/paulocarvalhophotography/photos/a.351378011692853.1073741829.351367031693951/368316436665677/?type=1&theater

https://www.facebook.com/paulocarvalhophotography/photos/a.351378011692853.1073741829.351367031693951/376410035856317/?type=1&theater

By: Minnie

Minnie — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 14:47:19 +0000

It’s hard for me to pick my favorites because this is my first year making conceptual photography but these are definitely my top 4. I’m really happy right now because I no longer decide whether I like a picture or not by the amount of likes I have on social media. I now trust my own opinion.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/minebb/14829122582/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/minebb/15022020779/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/minebb/15279128545/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/minebb/15363996708/