I will be taking a series of images of ingrid in her garden, as she spends a lot of her time here.
when am I conducting the shoot?
sunday 17th oct
where am i working/ location?
i am working in her back garden, it is filled with plants and her general space
how am i going to produce the images (lighting / equipment etc)?
I am going to conduct the photoshoot by firstly check the weather to see when the lighting/weather will be suitable, i will set up my tripod and direct Ingrid where to sit/stand
I am conducting my indoor photoshoot in the style of Arnold Newman.
Who am I photographing?
for my photoshoot I will be taking pictures of my friend Ruby.
What am I photographing?
I will be doing an environmental photoshoot regarding Ruby’s interests and everyday life, which is clearly displayed within her bedroom.
when am I conducting the shoot?
I will be conducting my shoot on Sunday 17th October
where am i working/ location?
I am working in Ruby’s house in St Lawrence, in particular, her bedroom.
why am i designing the shoot in this way?
I am designing the shoot in this way as her bedroom is filled with her interests, her walls are covered head to toe with posters, pictures, magazine pages and music. Her interests are portrayed through her walls including, her favourite musicians, movies, models and friends.
how am i going to produce the images (lighting / equipment etc)?
August Sander was a German portrait and documentary photographer. Sander’s first book Face of our Time was published in 1929. Sander has been described as “the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century”.
I will be basing a few of my photos in August Sandlers technique.
Mary Ellen Mark was an American photographer known for her photojournalism, documentary photography, portraiture, and advertising photography. She photographed people who were “away from mainstream society and toward its more interesting, often troubled fringes”.
I will also be basing some of my photos in her technique.
Arnold Newman (1918-2006) was an American photographer, remembered for his environmental photography. Newman studied painting and drawing at The University Of Miami. Due to a high costing tuition, Newman had to leave the university and started working at a studio in Philadelphia.
Arnold Newman gained his love for photography through the empathy he felt for artists and their work. Newman is often credited with being the photographer who articulated and who consistently employed the genre of environmental portraiture, “The surroundings had to add to the composition and the understanding of the person. No matter who the subject was, it had to be an interesting photograph. Just to simply do a portrait of a famous person doesn’t mean a thing.”
Newman’s Career in photography was very successful, he photographed icons such as Marlene Dietrich, John F. Kennedy, Harry S. Truman, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan, Mickey Mantle, and Audrey Hepburn. Most of his portraits were shot on large format view cameras however, some photographs were captured on a 35mm SLR camera, where the additional freedom is an advantage.
I have chosen to photograph Newman because i love the style of his images, they are minimalistic in black and white, but, paint a whole new picture through, objects, art and expression.
I have also chosen Newman as his photography links closely with the style I am hoping to create within my environmental portraits.
Its a celebration of our modern day democracy which started in 1769 when the Jersey corn riots took place.
History of the corn riots
in 1769 landowners where exporting wheat from Jersey to England where a bad harvest had increased the prices. Frustrated with the food shortages, increase in pricing, unfair taxation and the power structure in Jersey 500 islanders stormed the Royal Court with 13 demands on September 28th 1769.These demands included:
Lowering the price of wheat
Ejecting foreigners off the island
Sales tax should have a limit
The Customs’ House officers be ejected
Photo of the corn riots exhibit at the Jersey museum
While working with Tom Kennedy we also worked with one of the actors by asking them to adjust their positions, hold different objects and facial positions as well as using a light reflector to create new lighting.
Hamptonne Country Life Museum gives the visitor a unique insight into the rural life carried on in Jersey for centuries. Dating back to the 15th Century the house and farm are perfect for discovering the rural history of Jersey. Explore the different houses which make up Hamptonne, find out more about Jersey’s history of cider making in the cider barn and wander through the cider apple orchard and meet the Hamptonne calves, lambs, chickens and piglets in the traditional farmstead.
Discover Syvret House, a decorated and furnished farmhouse gives a unique window into 1940s rural life, including; agricultural traditions, day-to-day family life, language, religion and the experience of the German Occupation.
Tom kennedy and lighting
During our visit we spent an hour or so with Tom Kennedy, who is a freelance photographer who works with the Jersey Heritage to produce living portraits of the actors at the various heritage sights. He showed us how to co-operate with your subject and also how to use tools to adjust lighting and create more depth to your photo.
A Camera Obscura translates from Latin as “Dark Chamber”, and was originally a small dark room or box with a single tiny hole which resulted in an inverted image of the outside scene being cast on the opposite wall, seemingly discovered as early as 400C by Chinese philosopher Mo-tzu. It had many uses, like safely viewing eclipses or, by the 1500’s, to help artists to draw. Portable and soon even pocket versions were produced, now with a black painted interior and an angled mirror to flip the image the right way around.
A diagram of a Camera Obscura.A Camera Obscura in action.
Nicephore Niepce-
Joseph Nicephore Niepce was a French Inventor, born in 1765, credited as the inventor of photography. He began experimenting with attempting to automatically produce an image, around 1813, by coating pewter in various light-sensitive substances to copy superimposed engravings in sunlight.
Nicephore Niepce.
In April 1816, he began attempting Heliography, which translates to “sun drawing” using various light-sensitive materials but was unable to fully fix an image. Finally in 1826/27, he was able to create the first permanently fixed image using a camera
Nicephore Niepce’s first fixed image.
Louis Daguerre-
Louis Daguerre, born in 1787, was a French Artist and Photographer, known for his invention of Daguerreotype photography. Daguerre actually worked with Nicephore Niepce on his heliographic process from 1829, to Nicephore Niepce’s death in 1833. He then continued experimenting using a variety of chemical processes, leading to the invention of Daguerreotypes.
Louis Daguerre
Daguerreotype-
They were discovered during the 1830’s and were produced by a long and tedious method. If a copper plate coated in silver iodine was exposed to light in a camera, then fumed with mercury vapour and fixed with a solution of salt, it would form a permanent image. A lot of Daguerreotypes were produced during the mid-19th century, most often for portraits. They are detailed and sharp however they are incredibly fragile, needing to be stored in incredibly safe environments.
Daguerreotypes
Henry Fox Talbot-
William Henry Fox Talbot, born 1800, was an English Chemist, and pioneer Photographer. He is responsible for the development of Calotypes, the successor to Daguerreotypes. Henry Fox Talbot’s Calotypes used photographic negatives allowing multiple prints to be made. He spent many years experimenting increasing the quality and decreasing the time needed to make photograph things. The technique consists of exposing a sheet of paper coated in silver chloride to light in a camera obscura, areas hit by the light would become dark in tone, making a negative image.
Richard Maddox-
Richard Leach Maddox, born 1816, was a British Physician and Photographer, responsible for suggesting to suspend silver bromide in a gelatine emulsion, in 1871. In 1878, this idea was used for factory-produced dry plates, coated with gelatine containing silver salts. Many credit this as the beginning of the modern era of photography.
George Eastman-
George Eastman, born 1854, was an American Entrepreneur, responsible for inventing and distributing the Kodak camera, helping open photography up to everyday people. He released the first Kodak model in 1888, a simple handheld box camera containing 100-exposure roll film that used paper negatives. After all of the film was used, it would be sent back to the manufacturers to be developed, printed and reloaded.
Kodak (Brownie)-
In 1900, he released the Kodak Brownie, a handheld box camera which did not need to be sent back to the manufacturer to print the film, unlike previous models. They were sold as a dollar, allowing even children a chance to try photography.
Film/Print Photography-
Film continued to be used in photography, and the process to use it became safer and easier as time progressed . It was even used to create moving pictures, and later allowed editors to cut, paste and assemble footage. Colour film was introduced in 1935, introduced by the Kodak company.
Print photography had entered mass production around the 1920s, allowing people all across the world to seen printed images, through the use of halftones. An idea introduced by William Fox Talbot, halftones were a way to convey tone through print by using hundreds of dots of various sizes. How big the dots are implies how dark an area is.
Digital Photography-
The first digital cameras were introduced during the 1980s, with various companies releasing different versions. Each with their own pros and cons. The version of Adobe Photoshop’s editing software was released in 1990, and greatly increased photographer’s editing experience.
Hampton is a 15th century house and farm which has been maintained and restored to give a realistic experience and insight into life in Jersey in the 15th century.
Hamptonne also presents Jersey’s history of cider making with the original cider barn and cider apple orchard which is surrounded by fields containing calves, lambs, chickens and piglets in the traditional farmstead.
There is also a traditionally decorated and furnished farmhouse which gives a unique window into 1940s rural life, including; agricultural traditions, day-to-day family life, language, religion and the experience of the German Occupation.
Tom Kennedy and Natural Lighting
During our visit we spent an hour or so with Tom Kennedy, who is a freelance photographer who works with the Jersey Heritage to produce living portraits of the actors at the various heritage sights. He showed us how to co-operate with your subject and also how to use tools to adjust lighting and create more depth to your photo.
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