Steve MCcurry

Steve McCurry

Steve McCurry is an American photographer that has worked in photojournalism and editorial. He is best known for his 1984 photograph "Afghan Girl" which originally appeared in National Geographic magazine. McCurry is a member of Magnum Photos.His photography captures potraits of people around the world. His photographs brings focus to the expressions of the models or the subject that we can somehow relate. He experiments with different lighting and from what i can see most is natural lighting experimentation in his photographs.

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams

Though Adams was mostly known for his boldly printed, large format black and white images, he also worked extensively in color as well. However Adams felt closest to black and white photography, which he believed could be manipulated to produce a wide range of bold, expressive tones, and felt constricted by the rigidity of the color process.
He invented the zone system, a technique which allows photographers to translate the light they see into specific densities on negatives and paper, thus giving them better control over finished photographs. Adams also pioneered the idea of visualization (which he often called 'previsualization', though he later acknowledged that term to be a redundancy) of the finished print based upon the measured light values in the scene being photographed. He used his works to promote many of the goals of the Sierra Club and of the nascent environmental movement, but always insisted that, as far as his photographs were concerned, "beauty comes first". His images are still very popular in calendars, posters, and books.