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26/09/17
George Hurrell

George Hurrell was a photographer who took low key lighting pictures of movie stars in the 1930's making one side dark and one side light. George Hurrell was the one who invented the 'Boom Light' that was used in photography to a certain amount of lighting and the suspends to have in a image which i believe is still used to this day. George Hurrell was using different types of techniques using lighting, spotlights, and shadows which made his pictures always stands out. When he was a kid he would love to do art as it was his favourite subject as a kid. In the summer he became a priest somewhere in Chicago but eventually stopped to be able to do Art. Hurrell would go and take pictures of the beach. The pictures he took were only black and white as the camera wouldn’t have colour on it. I have been researching George Hurrell interviews In an interview on the website about him, he 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 favourite class in high school."

"If you plan to be a serious artist. You should come back with me to lacuna beach and paint." Mark Viera said “If George Hurrell can make my horse look as beautiful as the most handsome man in America, then everyone should be using George Hurrell as their photographer.”

After doing research of George Hurrell it inspired me to use it on my passport picture which made my picture look much darker on one side and have a little light on the other side using the low key, high contrast effect that Hurrell used.

 

As you can see here this is behind the scenes of George Hurrell taking his low-key lighting photos which shows he was using the creative idea of boom lights were being used to suspend light from his portrait.
Source: http://georgehurrell.com/george-hurrell/
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03/10/17
Phillip Bloom

Phillip Bloom is a British filmmaker who does blogs and workshops. He has worked as a cinematographer for companies such as Lucas films, CNN, Sky and BBC. Phillip has been a known filmmaker from his 27 years as a man taken pictures that are incredible cinematic images and it wouldn’t matter what camera he has to use he still gets those type of images. The most successful pictures he has had was taken by a camera called Canon DSLRs. Bloom has a website that everyone can go to which shows his pictures and his blog and has information that gives information all about him. Bloom website has been the place to go for filmmakers and for the new technology that has been out to help those being filmmakers. His website has 1,000,000 people a month going on it. The cannon DSLRs had a shot of the Lucas films last movie Red tails.

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09/10/17
The Afghan Girl

The Afghan girl was a little girl at the time who was a refugee at the time when the photo was taken of her. After, Steve McCurry published the photo which became known worldwide known as no one knew her name so it was called the Afghan girl.
The photo was taken to show the world the issues about war and refugees in Afghanistan. They wanted people in the US and Europe to show innocent people in the war to stop the war and to help them.

Later the photo of the Afghan girl was then a plan to find the girl and see what she would look like now.  The Afghan girl's real name is identified as Sharbat Gula in 2002 when the Afghan girl was put on the cover of National Geographic again.  Sharbat Gula was gone missing for a 17 years until 2002 where she was found as they was able to find her brother which lead them to find her. Sharbat Gula parents was killed when she was the age of six years old. She walked across the mountains of Pakistan with her grandmother, brother, and her three sister and ended up going to a refugee camp in Pakistan. McCurry made several attempts to locate her in the 1990's but they were not successful. But eventually it was a successful when they finally found her. A number of women had identified themselves as the Afghan girl however many men had identified Gula as their wife as well.

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14/10/17
Patrick Chauvel and Sergey Larkenov
Patrick Chauvel was born in France 1949 who became a independent photographer who took pictures of what was going on with war. He began his photography career at the age of 17. Patrick has been through a lot of wars to get pictures of what has happened in the war. He has managed to cover over twenty conflicts all around the world such as six-day war and the Vietnam war. In 1995 he received a award for the World Press Photo commendation for the coverage he had done for Spot News Stories about the 'battle of gronzy'.

Sergey Larkenov had done the same thing as what Patrick Chauvel which have pictures that has happened in wars. Larkenov would have the pictures that he would have in the war and would merge the pictures of now and see the big difference between each other showing what the streets look like and what it would look like bak when there was war. For example here is a picture of what he would do:

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17/10/17
Guinness Advert

The noitulovE was an advert from Guinness that was released on the 3rd of October in 2005. The Guinness noitulovE advert is aiming at a specific group of men that are in early 20s and would be in late 30s that are working class men. The reason I would believe that Guinness would want to aim at that group is that men that age would be working and they would normally be at pubs and they would want men to be drinking their drink. This is because they are also semi and unskilled workers that would come to the pub after a long day of work and would want a refreshing drink to clear their mind of work and to relax them. Guinness is much known in England but mainly In Ireland because the man Arthur Guinness was the one who originated it. Guinness is one of the most successful beer brands worldwide as it has brewed over 50 countries and over 120 countries. The drink is very popular with the Irish as it’s still the best selling alcoholic drink in Ireland. The slogan for Guinness Is ‘Good things comes to those who wait’ which would used in everyday life. They showed by going backwards in time through evolution to the days of the dinosaurs, that really was a long time to wait. For a pint Guinness you have to wait at the bar for it to be poured.