[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

[WEEK 7 ] The Wade Brothers

The Wade Brothers 

The Wade Brothers were hired to produce a fully integrated campaign for MADD. This included a :60 and :30 second tv spot and 4 print ads. All elements were produced in one production day, using a single crew. The Wade Brothers worked directly with a PR firm to create more than 50 Word of Mouth placements. The :60 second spot was also shown as pre-roll in geo-targeted cinemas. The whole effort was not without controversy: http://adage.com/goodworks/post?article_id=141935 http://creativity-online.com/work/madd-broken-teens/18518 breaks the story.

Fly 53: House of Fly 53

FLY53 a British apparel company engaged The Wade Brothers to create an edgy fashion campaign with motion and still assets intended to reach across platforms, with the main video particularly cued for viral success. The result: an 8 minute long-form video tour of The House of Fly 53, revealed at the Bread and Butter trade shows. The rooms symbolize confession, revival, retribution, torment, atonement and divinity. The :30 second short-form version was placed online and in rich media ad campaigns. The Wade Brothers paired the video with a full print campaign. The video, print and viral pieces were all shot at the same time, maximizing production costs, talent fees and other out-of-pocket expenses.

I love this picture very much . the way he manage the light sources like the key light back light and fill light. and the shadow seems to be totally empty. i mean the back ground.

innovating ideas to showcase different customers in the hotel room and hw they behave in different perspective 

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Room 107 is a personal project, with stills shot by Lyndon Wade and motion generated by The Wade Brothers. Many of these images are hanging in the Lumas Gallery.