Photography influencer: Jessica Whitaker

Photography influencer: Jessica Whitaker

           

by: Jessica Whitaker

In December of 2017 I was won my first DSLR camera, before that I would just shoot pictures using my friends DSLR camera (this is how I got interest in photography). My first thought was how am I going to learn properly to take pictures without spending money? Nowadays, it’s away easy with the technology and social media, so I searched on YouTube photography for beginners’ topics and this is how I got to know this Instagram/social influencer photographer.

Based in Seattle, Washington but currently living in New York city, she has been taking photographs for 12 years now. Jessica Whitaker is a young influence photographer who has a YouTube channel and a popular photography Instagram. Jessica Whitaker says on her website “I have a wide range of interests but they all center around creating + communicating with people. let's talk about my most favorite way that I create + connect... photography!

by: Jessica Whitaker

She photographs and edited them afterwards, she interacts with the object or person to create what is on her mind. If I had to cite a module in the course that would fit her style of picture it would be module 10, when we discussed about photo manipulation from Eugene Smith and Sebastiao Salgado.

Jessica Whitaker interact with the people and she manipulates the end of the photographs according to her photography style, as she is a contemporary portrait photographer, you will see that she takes modeling photographs, wedding photographs, senior photographs, all portrait photographs. She also influences people to take pictures, on her YouTube channel she uploads many videos teaching people how to create and take photographs.

Last year she created a Facebook group called “build+bloom by Jessica Whitaker” where photographers and photography aspiring can communicate with each other, post their work, it’s a group where she wants photographers to be encourage, have inspiration and creativity. This group have over 58,000 members. Not only a group but she also created an Instagram that she shares other people work so they can actually be noticed between the social media contemporary photography.

This young photographer has inspired me with her photo manipulation, she plays a lot with the temperature of the photograph, the colours, and poses.

She has her own packages (for the public) for taking photographs and she also take photos for magazines, fashion companies, and campaigns.

            Photo manipulation is the photography style that I am more interested in, the creation and composition of Jessica Whitaker are art for me. The colour playing, portraits, and her photographs are inspiration for me and the support that she gives to people who actually want to be a photographer influenced me to try photography.

by: Jessica Whitaker

 References:

• Module 10 from Discussion 
• http://www.jessicawhitaker.co