Mario Testino: He specializes in portraiture and photographing people (mainly celebrities) and is also a well renowned fashion photographer.
Mario Testino (born on 30 October 1954) is a Peruvian fashion and portrait photographer. His work has featured internationally in magazines such as Vogue, V Magazine, Vanity Fair and GQ. He has also created images for brands such as Gucci, Burberry, Versace, Michael Kors, Chanel, Estée Lauder and Lancôme.
Alongside his practice as a photographer, Testino has also worked as a creative director, guest editor, museum founder, art collector/collaborator and entrepreneur.
In 2007, he formed MARIOTESTINO+, which provides creative direction, art direction, brand strategy, graphic design, film and stills production, digital and social media, product development, books, exhibitions, licensing and partnerships.
Aaron Hicklin of The Observer described him as "the world's most prolific magazine and fashion trade photographer".
It is little known, however, Testino is very charitable; Testino has a foundation in Peru for young artists.
pale colours, capturing all the detail and features of the face with natural lighting and simple style. The overall coolness of the image makes Angelina's features really pop out. The pinks and the blues are contrasting colours, making this image very pleasing to the eye.
bright colours, makes the image more animated and bold. the colours depict the mood. There is also an overall coolness to the image which makes the cool contrasting colours (blues, greens and red) noticeable.
David Lachapelle:
I found an extent of this information from Lachapelle's book "Burning Beauty". Lachapelle explores many themes throughout his work including; lifestyle magazines as art galleries, images that awaken feelings such as film, amateur photography and pornography, body and consumption, people and masks: celebrity culture, spirituality and social criticism. Lachapelle has also been referred to as "The Transgressive Artist" as many of David Lachapelle's motifs reflect an artistic urge to use imagery as a way of transgressing the limitations of reality and everyday life, and this is what links his works from the 1980's with those from the 2010's.
David Lachapelle's desire to affect his viewers is unmistakable.
Courtesy: Dr Patrik Steorn (Burning Beauty) writer.
David LaChapelle (born March 11, 1963) is an American commercial photographer, fine-art photographer, music video director, film director, and artist. He is best known for his photography, which often references art history and sometimes conveys social messages. His photographic style has been described as "hyper-real and slyly subversive" and as "kitsch pop surrealism". One 1996 article called him the "Fellini of photography", a phrase that continues to be applied to him.
Courtesy: Wikipedia.org
Bright and contrasting colours (red, blue, golds) - bringing out the colours of Leo's lips and eyes. Also, the bright blue gradient background helps balance out the red of Leo's shirt with a complimentary colour.
Similar gradient bright gradient background that acts as a concession throughout many of Lachapelle's portraits. The orange of the hair and the blue background are and example of contrasting colours and helps add to the ominous yet balanced feel this image gives.
Lighting:
Jeff Wall: He uses subjects who are doing every day tasks and seem to be unaware that they are being photographed. Uses natural lighting, otherwise known as ambient light (no external lighting source used to add or take away light) to help portray how anti-theatrical his subjects are.
Jeffrey Wall, OC, RSA (born September 29, 1946) is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit cibachrome photographs and art history writing. Wall has been a key figure in Vancouver's art scene since the early-1970s. Early in his career, he helped define the Vancouver School and he has published essays on the work of his colleagues and fellow Vancouverites Rodney Graham, Ken Lum and Ian Wallace. His photographic tableaux often take Vancouver's mixture of natural beauty, urban decay and postmodern and industrial featurelessness as their backdrop.
Courtesy: Wikipedia.org and myself
The use of ambient light in this image creates a glow around the subjects and the placement of the sun elongates the shadows, showing that the sun would have been in a fairly low point in the sky (late evening or early morning). Direct light is also being used in this photograph as there a shadows casted behind the subjects.
I'm not too sure that there is no external lighting sources behind the view point of this image, but I like how the light above the sink and the ones above the stove add little deposits of light, really drawing my attention to these areas and the girl who is wearing white as the fabric is reflecting the light, making it brighter.
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