[week 14 ] Martin Amis

Martin Amis



so far after research on Martin's photo. i love this picture alot. i just gave me a very free and easy feeling. like throw me back to the olden days where theres no stress on me during secondary school, all i need to do is play football and basketball. the back ground is nicely shoot. and he is very good at choosing places .




to me. this picture dont really works well. i think that is just a normal room in most of our house. nothing special is taken in this picture. if i will to put this picture and show to anyone. i guess none of the people will say that this picture is special.




the power of nature. some times it really does not do too much things to create a very nice picture. all we need is to observe more, and choose a right angle to shoot it. well done .



is this a candid shoot? if is . amazing emotion capture by martin. i love how he position the people behind. is like a arrow shape. should try this next time .

[week 13 ] Adam Von Mack

Adam Von Mack

first of all. i think that this photographers nice is unique. i just cant forget this nice name after all.
she is a german fashion designer and photographer base in hong kong and europe.


this is so attractive. the way she took the model is so standardize but nice. every picture she took can really express the sexy of the model.



the way she position her model is totally perfect. she really did full use of their beauty in photo.the lighting too plays a very big role in her photography.



she often take photos for advertisement or promoting brands. every cloth she chose is also important to fit in the model. this black and white photo i dont think is really effective although she wanted to protrait the loneliness of the girl? but she is so sexy how to be lonely you tell me. HAHA




well taken . can totally sees the beauty in the model. also the cloth is really capturing the audience attention. full use of key light to enhance the effect.





this looks abit weird to me. the emotion that is portrait out by the model just doesnt seems right.
and plus the effect she put in. just dont make me look at the picture any longer.

[week 12 ] Alex Prager

Alex Prager



Alex prager is a film maker and photographer, who’s work has a strong cinematic quality to her work. Hailed as the next Hitchcock with a style leaning back to the beautiful 50s and 60s; dramatic scenes shot in an intense and artistic way.



Both Stan Douglas and Alex Prager make elaborately staged photographs that look like film stills. They both use photography to create oblique fictional narratives that baffle and intrigue. It's left to the viewer to figure out the bigger picture from the various references – cinematic and literary as well as photographic – embedded in the images.

Photographer Alex Prager is known for her cinematic intensity, combining the best elements of film noir, 70's retro fashion, pulp fiction and modern-day celebrity icons. Her past works have riffed off of films like Hitchcock's 'The Birds,' Godard's 'Week-end' and Michael Powell's 'The Red Shoes,' creating visual candy, which combine LA today and film past, future, forgotten and imaginary.

Her newest collection of film shorts for the New York Times features 2011's biggest film stars as nefarious film icons, from Brad Pitt channeling David Lynch's 'Eraserhead' to Rooney Mara of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' revamping 'A Clockwork Orange.' The collection will have you dizzy and drooling in seconds, guaranteed, whether by the drama of the film or the beauty of the celeb selection. Go on, take a bite.



She is one of those telented girl that knows how to set up scene to capture image .

[week 11 ] Nicholas Samaras

Nicholas Samaras

Nicholas Samaras is a new underwater photographer, but he made an impressive entrance in underwater photography area in Greece and out of his country borders.






offers something unique to the table of underwater photography, a more exciting approach towards the subject as opposed to just throwing a model into the water he photographs and documents what he sees whilst scuba diving and there are some fantastically interesting results.


Nicholas Samaras is a new underwater photographer, but he made an impressive entrance in underwater photography area in Greece and out of his country borders.
A great admirer of sea, where he feels completely at home, and a lover of sea creatures, he made his first dive in 1994 in beautiful Island Crete and since year 2000 is a Dive Master.
The diver that didn’t stop shooting underwater during scuba diving, soon replaced his first compact camera with more sophisticated underwater equipment and transformed from a scuba diver to a passionate and dedicated underwater photographer, with excellent samples of work and till now didn’t stop seek for knowledge and search the ways and the techniques that can make his ideas reality.


A great admirer of sea, where he feels completely at home, and a lover of sea creatures, he made his first dive in 1994 in beautiful Island Crete and since year 2000 is a Dive Master.The diver that didn’t stop shooting underwater during scuba diving, soon replaced his first compact camera with more sophisticated underwater equipment and transformed from a scuba diver to a passionate and dedicated underwater photographer, with excellent samples of work and till now didn’t stop seek for knowledge and search the ways and the techniques that can make his ideas reality.



I think that he is one of the best photo grapher i have never seen . is not easy to take photo in the water. he has to travel all the way to the bottom to take all this beautiful pictures. also not to forget that he have to hide from hunters like shark and other type of dangerous fishes.

[week 10] francois xavier marciat

francois xavier marciat



his is one of those photographers who does like to take photo with black and white. This picture should be taken with a very long shuttle speed thats why every thing is so clear and HD. i personally love this picture alot. it just gave me the feeling of home sweet home . wanting to spend some time with my families looking at the sky. the cloud looks to be over layered alot of times and it really lure me to count how many stack is it. haha



is really depends on how we want to frame our picture to give the best effect. this picture uses lines to make it feel so open and relax. but i dont really feel what he is trying to protrait here, just that guy sitting in the train maybe pondering something?



i guess after looking at so many photographer taking black and white pictures. i thinks that is really easy to do that. all you need is to make ur picture black and white and it will automatically light up the emotion of the photo.



This picture is from Francois-Xavier Marciat's collection; "Miscellaneous & Colored" I really found his photos interesting because they have amazing contrast and composition. Most of his photo's are landscape shots. I also really liked his shots, because he likes to take 2 photos and put them together, making one photo. i liked this photo because of the depth. and you could really see the texture of this photo well. I think this is a photo of some sort of cave.




creative ideas. is really something interesting that i wish to learn from photography. i love this kind of photo. using object to replace something and give another kind of effects. wonderful.

[ WEEEK 9 ] Jay Maisel

Jay Maisel is a famous modern photographer. His photos are simple, and he doesn’t use complex lighting or fancy cameras. He often only takes one lens on photo outings, and he enjoys taking photos of shapes and lights that he finds interesting.

Jay Maisel is one of the world’s greatest photographers and his workshops are intended to completely change the way you take photographs. His studio is in an old bank in the Bowery section of lower Manhattan and exploring the six-story building is an experience in itself.

 The following are some of the most important things I learned from Jay. They apply  to street photography as well as any other type of photography .

Unless we have the  camera with us at all times we may lose the opportunity to capture that great decisive moment when it presents itself because most decisive moments are also elusive moments

Nothing in the image is neutral, it either works for you or against you. 

 It’s important to always be aware of everything that we capture in an image because we are responsible for every square mm.

Gesture over graphics.

 If the gesture is powerful then nothing else matters. Even if there is a lot  of clutter in the frame ( see # 2) always go for the gesture instead of trying to “clean up” the frame. Gesture is what makes the picture emotionally involving and always overrides form.

 Show something that the viewer has never seen.

Don’t imitate. 

Jay says that the goal is revelation not replication. We need to shoot until we find our own style. We could  have elements from someone who we like and admire but in the end the viewer has to know that the picture they are looking at is undoubtedly ours.

[ week 8 ] Brian Duffy

Brian Duffy

In the Sixties and Seventies, fashion and portrait photographer Brian Duffy chronicled the heyday of Swinging London.  In 1962, The Sunday Times referred to Duffy and his fellow London photographers David Bailey and Terence Donovan as "the terrible trio."  For clients including Vogue, Elle and The Times of London, Duffy  photographed some of the most famous faces of the era, from The Beatles to Jean Shrimpton to David Bowie to Prime Minister Harold Wilson. 

But for many years, Duffy was more legendary in the photography world as the guy who tried to destroy his entire archive by setting his negatives on fire. In a BBC documentary produced last year, Duffy said he set the fire after one of his assistants told him the studio was out of toilet paper.

Photograph by Brian Duffy © Duffy Archive The V&A has been given unprecedented access to the David Bowie Archive to curate the first international retrospective of the extraordinary career of David