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 * Stewart Shining**
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is a New-York City-based photographer of contemporary actors, musicians, and models. Shining, born in Burlington, Vermont, and who grew up in Rapid City, Dakota, studied at the Parsons school design in the early 1980s and has been commissioned by both //Vanity Fair// and Vogue. He has worked on ad campaigns for Abercrombie&Fitch, Victoria's Secret, J.Crew, Ralph Lauren, and Express In 2001, he photographed Elsa Benitez, Lujan Fernandez, Daniela Pestova, and for the //Sports Illustrated//, Swimsuit Issue, and one of his photos of Benítez (pictured right) was selected for the cover. He has continued to participate as a regular photographer for the annual Swimsuit Issue and recently shot for the upcoming "body painting" feature for 2011. One of Shining's favorite photos occurred on assignment in Phuket, Thailand when a model jumped in the rain-pelted ocean. His photo credits are lengthy and varied. He has shot a pre-teen Natalie Portman,and more recently, when Drew Barrymore was named People Magazine's 2007 "World's Most Beautiful Person" Shining was chosen as the photographer. He has produced numerous covers for Rolling Stone magazine including covers in back to back months in 2002. He has also had numerous cover shots for //Lucky, self, and glamour.// Among his recent photo shoot subjects are Evangeline Lilly, Pink, Keira Knightley, and Alessandra Ambrosio. In 2008, Shining took Alicia Keys' publicity shots for As I Am. Also, in 2008 his ph otos of Rachel Bilson appeared in Lucky. Shining serves on the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, and he has volunteered to take photographs on behalf of the Heart Gallery of New Jersey to help children find adoptive parents.

__**Questions**__ What design elements are aparent? Why are they a good representation of this photographers work? Describe the use of light.

 Use of Contrast He works with models like this for fashion brands most of the time. The light is coming from the side of the picture which is facing her front side of the body so the photographer was able to create contrast around her back.  Use of Contrast in Black and White. This is just another work of his with models. The light was set right on her but a little left from the picture which created a lot of contrast between her silky dress and bed.

Far focusing. He used a unique technique with the mirror and the model where he focuses the model through the mirror and making her hand blur out. The whole room seems to be really bright when the picture was taken. Use of Shadow. He used her shadow to a unique style where she is the focus but at the same time the shadow brings more interest. Light is coming from the side of her body which was a little tilted in an angle to create the shadow.

Use of focus. He made the front, the closer part of model to focus and the farther side to blur out creating the viewer's attention closer to the front part of the model. Light seems to be a natural light from outside and it came from behind the model.