Interview with Photographer, Digital Artist, and Film-Maker Andrew Brooks

Interview with Photographer, Digital Artist, and Film-Maker Andrew Brooks
Interview with Photographer, Digital Artist, and Film-Maker Andrew Brooks

I also occasionally make oil paintings based on my pictures, here's one https://www.andrewbrooksphotography.com/image.php?ID=172 I think working in these other mediums give me a different take on the photography and post production work, just working with paint colors and images in a timeline means I can play the same kind of games as I do in my pictures but in a way that I am not so familiar with.

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Achievement your most proud of?

I think getting to a position where I can support myself whilst working on almost 100% creative and interesting briefs, and also having time to put weeks into my personal work. It's been a few years coming but it's good to have this kind of freedom and it feels like it really gives me time to develop my style of photography.

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Do you have any creative rituals to help you come up with a concept?

I come up with most of my ideas when I'm not thinking to directly about them, I listen to audiobooks as I work, this seems to take up a chunk of my attention, leaving what's left to work away at the pictures, sometime not really aware of where I'm heading with them. Also for some strange reason I usually get new ideas or refine ideas when I'm in the shower. From photography to digital art, how do you manage to blend so many different scenes together to create one consistent whole? My background is photography, from there I learnt about digital art. I think this means I have a strong understanding of exposure and how to go about capturing elements that have enough detail be transformed, altered and played with yet still have the quality to drop into the large composites.

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Is there a particular experience that influences how you approach your craft? What was it?

I think working in a professional photographic studio for 8 years was very important to my craft, the work was not exactly where I wanted to end up, being photography for catalogs and simple advertising, but I did learn how to create finished and polished images for clients day after day. Also the company I worked for invested in really good digital camera setup early on, so this gave me a great opportunity to work with good quality cameras and photoshop for 8 hours a day, which is the best way of learning and getting a natural feel for digital image making.

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