The Afghan girl
23.09.17
Afghan Girl is a portrait taken in 1984 by a journalist named Steve McCurry, which appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. The image is of a young girl with bright looking green eyes in a red headscarf intensely looking at the camera.
23.09.17
Afghan Girl is a portrait taken in 1984 by a journalist named Steve McCurry, which appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. The image is of a young girl with bright looking green eyes in a red headscarf intensely looking at the camera.
The photo tells us that the girl is afraid, hence the intense look in her eyes. This could mean she was located at an area that was in war. The headscarf was slightly torn suggesting that the girl was poor as she was in a refugee camp.
The photographer, Steve McCurry was working for magnum photos,
a photography company. His Motivations were to capture the idea to his audience
of how Afghanis in the world are suffering due to the war and the intense eyes
of the girl in photo depict the fear of many Afghanis who are in fear of what
is happening. The girl in the photo known as Sharbat Gula was eventually found
in a Pakistan, now being a mother of three children.
URL: [http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2002/04/afghan-girl-revealed/]
URL: [https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/steve-mccurry/]
Hurrell Research
11.09.17
George Edward Hurrell, born in Cincinnati, Ohio on June 1, 1904 is a famous artist who had an interest in drawing since he was young boy. In his own words said, “As long as I can remember I wanted to be an artist. As a boy, I was drawing all the time, in school and out. Art was my favorite class in high school.” Hurrell came from a large catholic family, having four brothers and one sister. George Hurrell originally wanted to become a priest instead, signing up at the Quigley Seminary in Chicago however, George chose to go to art school instead pursuing his dream as an artist.
These are some examples are Hurrell’s high contrast work
George Hurrell's high contrast work is achieved by using low key lighting often with light from one side to make the photo bright while using hard lighting the give the photos dark shadows and sharp edges.
The three in this photo are Greta Garbo (an American film actress), Norma Shearer (A Canadian actress), and Marlene Dietrich (A German actress). In an interview with Mario Testino, Mario praised his work, expressing that “No one looked more famous, more magical, more powerful than in his photographs”.
I personally enjoy his portraits, as the high contrast, gives a glamorous feel to it. I also believe the shots were well taken and the poses the actress make in two of the photos, really suit the image.
URL : http://georgehurrell.com/george-hurrell/
URL: https://www.vogue.com/article/mario-testino-george-hurrell-iconic-photographs
URL: http://filmschoolonline.com/sample_lessons/sample_lesson_cinematography.htm
Street Layer mask
25/09/17
In this lesson we used the layer mask to make part of street look grey, representing the 1900s. we did this by combining an old photo and a new photo of the same location in London. This is a style created by Sergey Larenkov, a Russian-based artist/photographer.
Sergey Larenkov is a artist/photographer who was deeply effected by World War II. On his Live Journal blog, the Saint Petersburg native put together a set of collages of World War II photographs put into the same locations as they currently look today.
His work:
Sergey Larenkov is a artist/photographer who was deeply effected by World War II. On his Live Journal blog, the Saint Petersburg native put together a set of collages of World War II photographs put into the same locations as they currently look today.
His work:
http://twistedsifter.com/2012/05/blending-scenes-from-wwii-into-present-day/
Read Philip Blooms Blog review
11/10/2017
Read Philip Blooms Blog review
11/10/2017
This blog is about Phillip Bloom, the owner of the blog, reviewing different types of cameras he uses to create cinematic images. You can also find information about him and find out about the films he made. Phillip Bloom is a world renouned film maker specialized in creating cinematic images for the 10 years of his 27 year career. I believe the blog flows very well as it's packed with many different links that take you to different parts of the website, big bold text for the links, lots of images and a search bar right at the top which is really handy in blogs. I like the way the blog is layed out and how there's blog posts with big pictures that automatically changes to a different blog posts. From reading his blog, I could use more pictures and date more of my posts.
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