Emily Blincoe
Emily was born September 2nd 1980, and she was raised in Austin, Texas. She currently lives there, in Texas, and in Nashville, Tennessee. However, oftentimes she likes traveling to other places, for work, and for fun. She enjoys traveling and exploring, but also staying at home. She often travels with her dog named Eleanor, who she's had for at least eight years, and means so much to her.
Emily’s style is basically just taking everyday objects, and turning them into art that she can photograph. She typically does still life photos, and each photo is different, and unique. In her still life photos, she uses a range of different things. She has used leaves, medical supplies, flowers, rocks, citrus, bugs, and so many more things. In all of her photos she likes to have a theme, whether it’s just a color theme, or a theme of similar objects like flowers.
When Emily first started photographing, her inspiration was just to take photos to document her life, so that she could preserve memories. But now her inspiration is “finding beauty in the ordinary”. One of the things she loves incorporating, and inspires her, is color. She’s inspired by color in so many things like nature, and fabrics, and even the editing process. Another one of her inspirations is faces. She believes that faces are important, and worthy of documentation. She has said that everyone’s face is important, not only the ones society says is important. With that being said, I think I can conclude that Emily’s main inspiration is just finding beauty in things, and taking something that could be meaningless to someone, and make it meaningful in her photos.
Emily Blincoe has not exactly influenced my photos in the past, but doing research on her has taught me so much. Learning about where she gets her inspiration from really just highlights the point that your photos should have meaning. Something that she said that I’ve heard many times, and I still need to continue hearing is “beauty is everywhere”. That just means that you can take anything in the world, and it’ll have beauty, but what’s important, especially in photography, is that you can highlight that beauty, so that not only you can see it, but others can too. I really think that knowing that piece of information can not only help better my photos, but it’ll help me in so many more aspects of life.
Emily’s style is basically just taking everyday objects, and turning them into art that she can photograph. She typically does still life photos, and each photo is different, and unique. In her still life photos, she uses a range of different things. She has used leaves, medical supplies, flowers, rocks, citrus, bugs, and so many more things. In all of her photos she likes to have a theme, whether it’s just a color theme, or a theme of similar objects like flowers.
When Emily first started photographing, her inspiration was just to take photos to document her life, so that she could preserve memories. But now her inspiration is “finding beauty in the ordinary”. One of the things she loves incorporating, and inspires her, is color. She’s inspired by color in so many things like nature, and fabrics, and even the editing process. Another one of her inspirations is faces. She believes that faces are important, and worthy of documentation. She has said that everyone’s face is important, not only the ones society says is important. With that being said, I think I can conclude that Emily’s main inspiration is just finding beauty in things, and taking something that could be meaningless to someone, and make it meaningful in her photos.
Emily Blincoe has not exactly influenced my photos in the past, but doing research on her has taught me so much. Learning about where she gets her inspiration from really just highlights the point that your photos should have meaning. Something that she said that I’ve heard many times, and I still need to continue hearing is “beauty is everywhere”. That just means that you can take anything in the world, and it’ll have beauty, but what’s important, especially in photography, is that you can highlight that beauty, so that not only you can see it, but others can too. I really think that knowing that piece of information can not only help better my photos, but it’ll help me in so many more aspects of life.
Emily's Photo Recreations
I think that my recreations of Emily’s photos were pretty good. For the vegetables one, I liked how instead of using carrots, I used corn. It makes my image a little more unique to me. For the leaf photo, they were pretty different because we used different leaves, and because instead of using water, I used ice. So they were different in that way, but they still looked fairly similar. And for the last photo, I think these photos were sort of similar because they both showed someone on a path, with trees surrounding them. But there were a lot of differences, like her trees had green leaves on them, while mine had none, and my photo had snow, while hers was more of a rainforest vibe.
For my first photo, I was going to copy her photo exactly, and use peas and carrots. But then I realized I didn’t have any carrots that were not mixed with other vegetables, so I decided to use corn instead. And then I ended up liking the photo better with corn because corn actually tastes good, and it made the photo a little more personalized. For my second photo, I was looking for someplace to take the photo, and I soon realized that none of my windows were wet, so then I decided to go outside, in the freezing cold, and take the photo. I still couldn’t find any clear-ish thing that had water on it, so I ended up using a car window that was covered in ice, and I think that turned out well, the ice sort of gave it a really cool texture. For the last photo, I took it at a park. But it was a little difficult because we were trying to avoid people, so I ended up taking it in a completely different location than I envisioned. But either way, the location looked similar, and the photo still turned out well, so I thought that I did well considering the circumstances. Overall, I really liked how my photos and Emily’s photos were sort of similar, but they were also different. And I especially liked how you could see a difference in weather/season, I think it makes the photos more unique.