Environmental portrait is a portrait executed in the subject’s usual environment, such as in their home or workplace, and typically illuminates the subject’s life and surroundings. The term is most frequently used of a genre of photography.

Arnold Newman

Arnold Newman was a celebrated American photographer known for his environmental portraits of artists, politicians and celebrities such as Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, and Marilyn Monroe. Arnold stressed that he was motivated by a genuine interest in his subjects, and in the craft of photography.

The artist died on June 6, 2006 in New York. His works are held in the collections of the George East Museum in Rochester, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington.

Newman’s best-known images were in black and white, although he often photographed in colour. His 1946 black and white portrait of Igor Stravinsky seated at a grand piano became his most well known, and signature image.

Stravinsky is pictured here with a piano, the top of the piano vaguely resembles a musical note, resembling Stravinsky’s life and career.

A environmental portrait is taken of the person in there most natural settings this typical gives more depth to the images. There whole life can be represented in a photo.

Annie Leibovitz was born in 1949, she is most known for her engaging environmental portraits.

This portrait of a sailor on his boat sailing. This image is a perfect example of an environmental portrait, an image of a person in their own habitat.

All these photographs, I think are very good environmental portraits. they all tell a story of the subject and their environmental and incite on personality.

The British scientist Sir John Herschel discovered the cyanotype process in 1842.

The process remains the same today, producing a white image on a deep blue background.

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.

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This is my process of choosing the best photos to use from the museum visit.

This is my process of choosing the best photos to use from the hamptonne visit.

Contact Sheets

During our visit to Hamptonne we got the chance to explore around the farm to look at all the buildings and the animals that they kept. There are a range of photos from around that farm like the apple orchard and cider house. It was interesting to walk around and photography different parts of nature and wildlife.

Editing

I have edited my photos in Lightroom and I have split the screen so that I can see the before and aft6er of my photos which helps to edit and adjust them. It allows me to see if I should decrease the exposure of change the contrast levels. In some of my edits I have made the photo darker to give them a more rustic look. Some of the exterior photos were to bright so I have lowered the exposure so that the houses can be seen more clearly.

Final Photos

I have chosen these as my final photos because they each show apart of Hamptonne and its history. I have tried to make each of the photos have a vintage and rustic look to them, I have also had to lower the exposure because they had come out too bright due to the sun. My favourite photo would be the first one because the warmer tones of the wood stand out more due to the sun hitting it.

In 1767, people protested about the export of grain from the Island. Anonymous threats were made against shipowners and a law was passed the following year to keep corn in Jersey. In August 1769 the States of Jersey repealed this law, claiming that crops in the Island were plentiful. There was suspicion that this was a ploy to raise the price of wheat, which would be beneficial to the rich, many had rents owed to them on properties that were payable in wheat. As major landowners, the Lemprière family stood to profit hugely.

When residents and farmers began to protest and forced their way into the royal court they developed a list of demands:

 That the price of wheat be lowered and set at 20 sols per cabot.

• That foreigners be ejected from the Island.

• That his Majesty’s tithes be reduced to 20 sols per vergée.

• That the value of the liard coin be set to 4 per sol.

• That there should be a limit on the sales tax.

• That seigneurs stop enjoying the practice of champart (the right to every twelfth sheaf of corn or bundle of flax).

• That seigneurs end the right of ‘Jouir des Successions’(the right to enjoy anyone’s estate for a year and a day if they die without heirs).

• That branchage fines could no longer be imposed.

• That Rectors could no longer charge tithes except on apples.

• That charges against Captain Nicholas Fiott be dropped and that he be allowed to return to the Island without an inquiry.

• That the Customs’ House officers be ejected.

Photos from Hamptonne that I have improved using Lightroom

I have used a flagging system in Lightroom to arrange my photos to choose which photos are good to use and which photos aren’t good

Exteriors

Interiors

Objects