I was pretty bored, so I decided to google music photography. When I did this I found Ami Barwell’s website. Ami Barwell is a self-proclaimed Rock and Roll photographer, and I really like her images. Most of her work is done in black and white. It is really recognizable though because there is such a contrast between black and white in her pictures, and there is not a whole lot of grey. I’m not sure how she does this, I’m guessing photoshop. Whether these pictures are edited or not, they really stuck with me. It’s like she could capture the attitude of the musician’s in her images and the attitude was conveyed in the whole look of her portfolio. I couldn’t get any photos from her website, so I would encourage you to look around there.
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- Guitar, this one is really cool, too
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- This one is my favorite.
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- Guitar Player
The only thing though its that you can’t always tell who the picture is of. But at the same time, I do not think that that is very important in these photos because she captures the attitude of the musician, and that is what you see instead of their faces. We can see that she does focus on the musician in the press shots section of her website. Also, if you have a chance check out her album covers section. These are really cool and some of them show her using color images. It’s interesting to see how she uses color compared to stylized black and white photos.
