Editing One Picture

I decided to edit this picture because I liked the composition and I thought it looked quite simple and nice. I also liked the way the sun was coming from the window and the reflection it created on the wall. I started by turning it black and white to make it look old then I increased the contrast to make the lines on the wall and texture of the metal tub stand out. I also decreased the highlights and increased the shadows because It was a bit too bright.

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I decided to edit this picture because I liked the composition. I think the way the model was in the centre of the image and looking to her right whilst holding a vase could tell a story to the viewer. I cropped the photo first to bring more attention to her instead of the background. I then sharpened the picture and increased the texture to make the details stand out. I also increased the vibrance to make it livelier.

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Photography, as we know it today, can be done at any type due to the invention of mobile phones but before technology, taking photographs was a lot more work and took a lot more time…

17th Century – Camera Obscura

It first started with the Camera Obscura, which consisted of a dark box, 3 lenses and held a mirror at a 45° angle. It would capture light from the scene and reflect these light rays through a large tube that contained 3 lenses, then using the mirror, would project an upside-down version of the image onto the wooden table.

It’s not clear who invented the camera obscura as there’s evidence that goes back to 400BC where a man, Mo-tzu, discovered how light can project and invert an image, however, the term camera obscura was created by Johannes Kepler in 1604 who used a portable version of the device for astronomy purposes. [The camera obscura was mainly used by artists to compose their paintings which made the device quite popular as it would save them a lot of time painting and was much more efficient.]

19th Century – Nicephore Niepce

Nicephore Niepce was a French inventor who was the first person to ever make a permanent image when he experimented with various light-sensitive substances to create what he called sun drawings. It took many attempts but he didn’t succeed until 1922 when he created a photographic copy of a glass engraving by using bitumen of Judea that hardens when exposed to light then in the year 1827 created the first lasting record of his work that took roughly 8 hours to expose. This led to Niepce teaming up with Louis Daguerre for 4 years, before unfortunately passing away, who improved upon his work and eventually made the Daguerreotype.

19th Century – Louis Daguerre + Daguerreotypes

Louis Daguerre was a French painter and physicist that created the first practical process of photography called the daguerreotype after improving upon Niepce’s work after he passed.

He discovered exposing an idolized silver plate in a camera would create a permanent image if the latent image was developed through exposure to fumes of mercury then fixed by a solution of salt. Daguerre’s process lowered the exposure time from 8 hours to roughly 30 minutes! However, daguerreotypes were expensive as they were highly detailed, heavy and very fragile due to their mirror-like surface which meant only the wealthy could afford them.

Despite their pricing, daguerreotypes were very popular and used for still life, natural phenomena, documentary subjects and most commonly portraits.

19th Century – Henry Fox Talbot

Henry Talbot was an English scientist that created the salt paper and calotype processes which are known as an improved daguerreotype.

The salt paper process involved placing paper into a salt solution that would later be dried before one side of the paper got coated in a solution of silver nitrate, creating a light-sensitive silver nitrate that would darken when exposed to light. Objects would be placed on the paper or the image from a camera obscura would be used in order for the photo to be made.

The Calotype process used a paper negative to make a softer version of the daguerreotype which makes it possible to make multiple copies as a negative is produced.

19th Century – Richard Maddox

Richard Maddox was an English photographer and physician who created lightweight gelatin negative plates in 1871 which meant photographers didn’t have to make their own emulsions in a dark room but could instead use commercial dry plates off the shelf which meant negatives didn’t have to be created immediately. This also meant cameras were now small enough to be handheld which made photography more convenient than ever before.

19th-20th Century – George Eastman + Kodak + Brownie

George Eastman was an American entrepreneur and inventor who managed to perfect the making of dry plates and introduced the Kodak camera and the Brownie to the world along with the use of film.

The Kodak was the first camera that could be used to create amateur photography as it was a small handheld box that was sold with film sealed inside so that it could be mailed back to the Rochester in order for the film to be processed, printed and reloaded free of charge which created the company’s slogan ‘you press the button, we do the rest’.

After 8 years, Eastman released a cheaper version of the Kodak called the Brownie which was aimed towards children and sold for 1 dollar. The main difference between the Kodak and Brownie was that the film could be removed in the brownie which meant it didn’t have to be sent back in order for their photos to be processed.

The Camera Obscura

The camera obscura was first used in 400BC by a Chinese philosopher, Mo-tzu. The device is box shaped and used in a darkened room, which has a small hole for light. the light passing through the hole, reflects the outside view into the surface opposite the hole.

The camera obscura was formally used to study eclipses to avoid damage to the eyes, the device was also used as a drawing aid which allowed the artist to trace over the projection, creative accurate drawings of the outside.

Nicephore Niepce

Nicephore Niepce 1765-1833 was a French inventor. Niepce is often credited as the founder of photography. Niepce developed heliography, which produced a print made from a photoengraved printing plate. Niepce created these prints using the camera obscura. Nicephore Niepce is now known to have produced the oldest surviving photograph of a real world scene.

Louis Daguerre

Louis Daguerre 1787-1851 was a french artist and photographer. Daguerre is best known for his invention which he called ‘Daguerreotype’ , this was the first publicly available photographic process. It was used between the 1840s and 1850s and was also affordable. The images were produced using a sheet of silver plated copper and fumes, the photograph would take a few seconds or longer to develop.

Henry Fox Talbot

Henry Fox Talbot was an English scientist, inventor and photography pioneer. Talbot invented the ‘salt and pepper’ and the calotype process. Talbot used his salt and pepper process to create permanent pictures, he placed his paper into a salt solution, dried it and then coated in a silver nitrate solution. when placed in the light, the solution would darken

Richard Maddox

Richard Maddox was an English photographer. Maddox created the Gelatine Dry Plate process, Maddox would use gelatine on a glass plate and silver bromide which meant it would react when exposed to sunlight

George Eastman

Eastman was an American entrepreneur who founded Eastman Kodak, he helped bring the use of roll film into the mainstream. Eastman created his first roll of film in 1889 where he then began distributing it. The Kodak camera was a huge success and very popular due to its small size and affordable price.

Kodak Brownie

the Kodak brownie camera was created by George Eastman in 1900. The brownie ran off of film and was cheap at the time as it was made of cardboard and had very basic functions. Childrens love for the brownie meant it became widespread, the brownie began to popularise photography. Soldiers would take the brownie away to war and captured some of the images we see today.

camera obscura from Latin it means a darkened room with a small lens or a hole through which an image is projected on to the wall opposite the hole however the image comes out inverted.

Nicephore Niepce was a French inventor best known for being the first to create a permanent photographic image by dissolving light sensitive bitumen in lavender oil and then applying a thin coating over a polished pewter plate. Which could be inserted into the camera obscura.

Louis Daguerre was a French photographer who invented the daguerreotype in 1839 it consisted of treating a silver-plated copper sheet with iodine to make it sensitive to light, then exposing it in a camera and developing the images with warm mercury vapor. This is an example of what the daguerreotypes looked like.

Henry Fox Talbot was an English photographer who discovered a way to make instant photographs which consisted of using printable steel plates and muslin screens to achieve middle tones in photos on a printing plate.

Richard Maddox was an English photographer who invented negative plates for photography in 1871 which meant that photographers no longer had to prepare their own emulsions in a darkroom.

George Eastman introduced the kodak camera in 1888 which meant anyone could now take pictures with a handheld camera just by pressing a button.

Kodak Brownie was a series of cameras made by Eastman fist introduced in 1900 it was a basic cardboard box camera with a simple meniscus lens that took 2 1/4 inch square pictures on 117 film roll.

Film photography film is the medium on which analogue cameras record images film comes in colour or black and white it produces a unique look as it allows for more vibrant colour variations.

Digital Photography uses cameras that contain electronic photodetectors to produce images focused by a lens. The captured images are digitalized and stored as a computer file ready for further digital processing.

First I uploaded my images from the Hamptonne photoshoot from the Media Drive onto Lightroom.

In the First Round of Editing I divided my images into Picked and Rejected using Shift + P (for Pick) or Shift + X (for Reject). I did this a few times until I landed with the images I have chosen to edit.

Next, I Filtered out the chosen images and rated them with stars, this is so I can determine which ones are my absolute favourites quicker.

Next, I sorted the images into Green, which are the ones I want to edit, Yellow, the ones I might reconsider editing and Red, the ones I do not want to edit.

Finally, I edited my chosen images, I did this by adjusting things like exposure, contrast, colour as well as cropping it.

Some of my final images:

Editing One Image

I decided to edit this picture because I really like the composition and the way the light hits the brushes. I thought the detail on the brush looked very interesting and I wanted to make them stand out more by turning up the contrast and texture. I turned the hue down and saturation up for the colour red in order to make the table cloth more visible and the embroidered rose stand out. I also played around with the other colours until I could something I liked. I cropped the image because I think its looks better close up due to the details of the brush.

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Alfred Krupp 1963 – Alfred Krupp, ‘The Cannon King’, was a German industrialist known for his worldwide sale of cast steel cannons and other armaments. He is most famously known for supplying the German army during WW2 with cannons and other weapons.

In my opinion, Arnold Newman is trying to portray Alfred Krupp as a sinister figure in an industrialised world. The lighting in the image is dark and ominous, with harsh lighting sculpturing his face. this harsh lighting creates an almost hell-like tone on Alfred’s face. There is a bright light behind Krupp which could symbolise a halo, this contrasts with the dark harsh lighting on his face. As well as this, the lighting shining on his face is from either side of his, creating these devil- like horns on his forehead. The idea behind this could be that to the Germans, Kropp was seen as an angel and someone who helped them through war, however to everyone else he is portrayed as a man of sin and someone easily compared to satin. the photographer uses a wide angle on the image for possible two reasons, one of them being that Kropp wanted to show off his industrial inventions and had requested this. On the other had the photographer may have used a wide angle lens to highlight the damage Kropp has done in his lifetime, and is trying to make his a less important factor in the image.

Post Worktime

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Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and low-cost process to produce copies of drawings, referred to as blueprints

English botanical artist, collector and photographer Anna Atkins was the first person to illustrate a book with photographic images. Her nineteenth-century cyanotypes used light exposure and a simple chemical process to create impressively detailed blueprints of botanical specimens. 

My Cyanotypes

During our day at Hamptonne we attempted to make out own cyanotypes using natural items we found near where we were working.