Sam Kaplan
Sam Kaplan helped and assisted photographers in New York City after leaving college in 2007, where he studied photography and sculpting. This allowed him to learn different techniques and tricks about lighting and working with a camera. He was able to use his fellow photographers studio space to take pictures of things he had bought from dollar stores.
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"You're more attached to a shot you conceived than if you're simply asked to execute a shoot that's handed to you on a plate."
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Kaplan started to contact a lot of clients by emailing a mass of people. He then worked with his friend who was a designer and made more polished promos. Kaplan was fortunate enough to do a shoot for fortune which lead him on to do many more shoots for different magazines. He is now pitching his ideas to his clients about still life photos.
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I like how creative Sam Kaplan is with his designs, using a variety of objects, colours and layouts to create a diversity between each of his photos. He composes the objects in his photographs cleverly to produce more aesthetic images that are fun to look at. A lot of Kaplan's photographs are of food, however he used multiple ideas to make the images more appealing. Some of his photographs contain a lot of food that creates a gradient or some sort of shape, which helps to make each of his photos unique and different to each other. Sam edits his pictures to make the colours a lot more vibrant, he contrasts specific designs by saturating the colours on some and cooling the colours on others.