Photographers who inspired me

There are 3 types of photographers by my own classification:

1. Great businessmen  who are very successful on selling their work, but I do not understand nor like  photography they do.  Another words, they know how to sell, but I see nothing which can inspire me.

2. Unknown photographers, they have amazing portfolios, but they are known by very limited numbers of people, so there is not much chances I can find them online. (Know one? Let us know!)

3. Successful photographers who had achieved amazing results in photography and also highly successful on promoting and selling their work. This is who inspires me a lot,  I like the clean and crisp style  and technically challenged work they do.

Most of them extensively use photo editors to enhance and finish the images,  all of them commercial photographers , mostly food , advertisement and fashion.  All of them has very bright and professional looking web portfolio.

As I’ve mentioned before, I only selected photographers who work in the same area as myself, there are  more great artists around us, but I was learning from these:

Rick Souders:   http://www.edibleimagery.net
Matthew Klein: http://www.matthewklein.com
Jose Manuel: http://www.jmv-studio.com
Nejat Tallas: http://www.nejattalas.com
Jill Greenberg: http://www.manipulator.com
Kutlu: http://www.kutlu.com/photographs
August Bradley: http://www.augustbradley.com

And the last one, probably youngest most successful  stock photographer:

Yuri Arcurs: http://www.arcurs.com

Updates: Libby has pointed to Michael Ray:  http://www.foodportfolio.com/ , he was definitely missed ..

Missed these two, amazing photographers:
KEATE: http://www.keate.net
Francesco Tonelli: http://www.francescotonelli.com

Carl Warner :http://www.carlwarner.com Especially love his foodscapes!

Michael Ray: http://michaelray.com

Let me know if I’ve missed some:-)

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