Zoe Rain: A Photographer and Her Art

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Miss Zoe Rain is one of the few lucky people who get to take up photography as a career and travel all around the world, getting paid to simple take photos. It all started in Seattle Washington when Zoe Rain was in high school (ZoeRainPhotography). She started off taking photos at hip-hop shows around where she was growing up and going to school (ZoeRainPhotography). In the past years, Zoe Rain has been involved in a number of photography programs. Since 2009 she has been an associate at a photography company called JKoe, which is a local Seattle company (JKoe). At the same time, Zoe Rain is a freelance photographer under her own company called Zoe Rain Photography (ZoeRain.Wix). She has been taking wedding, nature, senior, and tour photographs (ZoeRainPhotography). The tour photographs are what she is most noticed for because she has been on tour with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis this past year (ZoeRainPhotography). Zoe Rain spends her personal time to shoot some photos of Lorde, Miley Cyrus, and for major magazines like Rolling Stones and (ZoeRainPhotography). Not much has changed since then with Ms. Rain. She’s enrolled in Seattle’s Central’s Commercial Photography Program to sharpen her already amazing photography skills to continue her career behind the lens (ZoeRain.Wix). Zoe Rain has expanded her focuses of photography by taking portraits, cinematography, and videography during the Macklemore and Ryan Lewis tour (ZoeRain.Wix).
Zoe Rain’s photographs have the four aspects covered and she’s amazing at action shots, which can be seen in some of her tour photos with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. Her other shots are just as good action shots and have really strong contrast. The real relevance of Zoe Rain’s photos, I believe, is to ...

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...und stage blurry as it progresses farther away from the lens.
The final photo is again from the Macklmore and Ryan Lewis tour, but it is not an action shot its got great composition because of the moment captured. This shot has contrast and makes it more dramatic because it is in black and white, just adding to the composition. The picture tells such a great story by showing the joy in the woman and the man’s face.
Overall, Zoe Rain’s photographs are so strong in composition and contrast that they are extremely inspirational. The photos tell the stories which I think is more important than anything else about a photo unless it is blurry and I can’t see the story. The strong contrast in her photos helps convey the amazing story like in her black and white photography. The colored photos are so bright and vibrant that it makes the photos stand out from all the rest.

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