Colby Brown is a landscape and humanitarian photographer from Pennsylvania. He grew up in California but now lives in Colorado. He is from the united states. His background is in emergency response which is what first introduced him to humanitarian photography. He began his professional photography career in 2006 and was leading photography workshops for Nat Geo shortly after in South America. This expanded his horizons and taught him a lot about photography. In 2011 he founded The Giving Lens, a foundation focusing on photo education. He has taken off and now Colby creates & helps run various social marketing campaigns for some of the biggest companies and destinations in the world. This list includes numerous large scale companies and destinations including Sony, Samsung, Toshiba, Iceland Naturally, Jordan Tourism Board, Australia.com, Travel Alberta, Visit California and many more. Colby takes landscape photos that are a mix of surreal and dramatic. I would compare some of his work to that of Ansel Adams in the way it is composed. He typically takes photos of dramatic colorful skies and uses a lot of reflections and water in his shots. His photos really have that wow factor that stuns the viewer. He also likes to use the rule of thirds in his photos and they turn out stunning. In his humanitarian photos he tries to use them to draw attention to the disaster many face in their lives. He illustrates adversity very well in these photos. His message is generally social and calling for social change. In his landscape he is just trying to show the beauty in the world. He says many photographer get too caught in trying to take a photo and forget to take in the beauty in the world and make memories along the way. Another underlying message in his work is he illustrates the awful parts of the world in his humanitarian work while then showing the true beauty in his landscape work. He has influenced me in my landscape work greatly. I love his use of color and reflections to create almost surreal images that you look at and think to yourself, “no way is this real”. He uses a lot of long exposures, something I really love doing. He uses them to capture light trails, night skies, and moving water. These are some of my favorite kind of photos to take because it leaves people stunned and thinking to themselves how on earth was this photo created. I like to take pictures that require a lot of photo knowledge because I don’t want a photo just anyone can take. Here are the photos I chose of Colby's to inspire mine.
My photos compare to his because he too focuses on sunsets often in his work. He also focuses on the sky something I too did in my photos. I composed mine using the rule of thirds mostly as well as shooting through things to add drama that he adds to his work. I think that in the event I was able to shoot at some of the great locations he gets, I too would be able to have photos that look like his (sorta). I took these photos off of some of the roads towards the Dexter side of ann Ann Arbor. I used the sunset to my advantage to capture the dramatic sky and dramatic lighting across my foreground objects. These places are where I grew up so they are meaningful and I really like the results of my photos
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