Week 14 - Ben weller

Ben Weller

South Korea photographer, based in Busan. He focus on industry, labour, people and culture.

 Reflections:

 Ben Weller uses natural light alot in his photos, even if the sun is shining brightly, he would be "brave" enough to take his shots. Many people are usually afraid to take photos with bright sunlight, they would prefer taking photos in the evening or morning so as to capture the sunset and sunrise moments. I realise he likes to create a gradient colour in the background which enhance the colour of his image. That's something I would want to work on, balancing the colours of my images in future. I really like Ben Weller photos, I feel like he takes photo with his heart.

Week 13 - David Hobby

David Hobby

An American photographer and the author of a lighting blog that promotes lighting techniques. He's a photojournalist with The Baltimore Sun. His blog was named one of the "25 Best Blogs of 2010" by Time Magazine.

 Reflection:

I like how David Hobby uses lighting in his photos to make a difference to the subject. It makes the photo really interesting rather than a dull normal looking photo. Even if the background may be dark, he still enhance the light on the subject itself to bring the focus of the viewer to it. In photography, the correct lighting is very important and I feel that i am still not very confident of capturing the right lighting so I feel that I need to improve more on that in my work.

Week 12 - Robert Capa

Robert Capa
A hungarian war photographer, photojournalist who is also the companion and professional partner of photographer Gerda Taro.

Wars he covered:
Spanish Civil War
Second Sino-Japanese War
World War II across Europe
1948 Arab-Israeli War
First Indochina War

"If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough"

Reflection:
Robert Capa is a very daring person to me. He could take such nice photos despite a war is happening makes him really brave. People would probably be running for their lives, protecting their love ones when a war is happening yet he can still take such photos. Capturing such precious moments during a war, the touching moments and how they fight for their lives together. I like how his images speak to the audience, it's like he freezes the time to tell a story of how people are like during a war.

Week 11 - Eric Kim

Eric Kim

A street photography currently based in Berkeley whom studied Sociology and combined his passion in photography to make statements about society through street photography. Initially when he started, he had difficulty finding on the net on the approach of street photography. Soon, because he lost his job which gave him the opportunity to travel the world and teach street photography workshops to those who wants to conquer the frear of doing street photography.

Reflection:
I like doing street photography and I have the fear of taking photos of strangers so I prefer taking backgrounds objects or situations. The style in his photos being very unique captivates people to look into his pictures more; as though his photos are talking. That's how I feel when I see his photos even with a simple silhouette as the main focus. I wish to overcome the fear of taking photos of strangers like him in the future because human expressions are interesting in many ways and you can see the story behind the people's expression.