Carole Sharp didn't actually study photography at university, instead she studied Visual Communication. Which means that everything she learnt about photography was in her first studio job. Sharp has an interest in Graphic shapes, which is where she brought her graphic eye to food and still life images.
Sharp faced many set backs on the way, such as her studio burning down destroying everything, so she rebuild everything again.
Carol Sharp then started looking into nature taking pictures of flowers and fruit for packaging, where she worked for sainsburys and twinning. Sharps two key pieces of advice to us was to keep a note of the way you light an image so that you can recreate it and also to take photos of the set up.
One of the main things Sharp enjoys is arranging thing in the shot because it makes her feel more connected to the shoot.
As well as her work with various brands she started up a stock library called "Flowerphotos" however sold it on because it became to much to manage on her own.
Sharp told us that licenses are important when it comes to stock photography and wronging with companies because once you sell an image to them you don't have the right to use that image again until the license ends.
Carole Sharp left us with two quotes that really got me thinking, that i will share with you now:
"nothing really exists till there is an observer"
and
"the trees are our books and the forest is our library"
Thank You For Reading,
Becca x
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