Ernst Haas

Ernst Haas, (1921-1986) Haas pioneered colour photographer. Naturally he plays with colours, lighting and speed in his photographs. I love the ones that he uses lighting, colours and reflections of water the most. It creates a mood there despite the lack of natural light which I feel is a key to photography. He feels that being a photographer was the choice for him as he wanted to be a explorer and a painter. I feel that photographers' works are very much like a painter's. One bonus point for a photographer is that you could express a lot of different emotions on your 'canvas' which is the photos you capture and I think that is a bonus point compared to painters which a ruin canvas is treated seriously. 

Steve Mccury

Steve Mccurry, (1950) "McCurry focuses on the human consequences of war, not only showing what war impresses on the landscape, but rather, on the human face." I love the Pakistanis girls photographs because through their eyes you could tell about the life there, they are not as fortune as we are here. One main thing he looks for in a portrait is those unguarded moments of them he stated it is the most essential soul peeking out experience on a person's face.

Yousuf karsah

Yousuf Karsh, (1908-2002) at that point in history he Karsh was the master of studio lighting, The usage of the studio lighting highlighted the features of them making it looks even more distinct. Karsh was known for capturing portraits of famous people like Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and many more.The Sunday Times stated "when the famous start thinking of immortality, they call for Karsh of Ottawa."

Vivian Maier

Vivian Maier, (1926-2009) an interesting case of famous after death, she was never a photographer, well she was but not as a job. She was a nanny the whole time while capturing the city and the people there. She was never known for any of her photographs and many of the films were in fact not developed. It was later when people packed her things they found out. One thing for sure was she was a very mysterious person. I love her images a lot as it showed the things that was happening in that era and sadly the issues addressed in those images are still present till today. Status differences due to the skin colour and very obvious from the way they dressed. The definition of beauty in that era.

Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange, (1895-1965) Clearly without having to even say we all could tell that majority doesn't have a smile on their face due to the fact that it was the depression era. The black and white photographs enhances and brings out the existence of depression visually. She makes me realised that photographs can educate as as well, her depression era collection humanised the consequences of the great depression. Photographs these days are mainly and purely for visualising sake, pleasing to the eyes however a little of them actually educates or even bring awareness. Perhaps an awareness could be what I could consider to head towards for my photographs.

Burrard Lucas

Burrard Lucas, (1983) back in 2009 he felt like there were no devices that could achieve the vision he wanted so he started inventing his own. Then together with the help of his brother they came up with the BeetleCam and he captured beautiful images as such. One unique thing that the BeetleCam could do was that it is low-height hence when capturing it provides the eye level perspective of the animal's and most of them got the eye contact which many of the wildlife photographers lacked of. From him I learnt that perspective could really change the whole image.