I went through all my photoshoots and picked some photos from each that I thought were successful photos, checking the lighting, framing and sharpness of each image, before adding to a collection I created in Lightroom for printing, having about 20 photos in total. From there, I went through all my photos again and lowered it down to these final 11 where I made some small adjustments to each image and exported them in he correct size, ready for printing.

My Final Images:

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Photoshoot 1

For this photoshoot we used techniques shown to us by Oliver Duran, such as only using one light source and focusing on communicating with the subject. Throughout the shoot we were constantly adjust the intensity of the umbrella light to create different atmospheres via the shadows. We also used a ref

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To take these photos I used a single umbrella light directed at the side of the subjects face. We played with the warmness of the light to generate different effects and found the cooler colour worked better to cast shadows on the side of the face which looks more harsh and dramatic in the end result.

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For this image I again used a single umbrella light however this time I had angled it away from the subject and towards a silver reflector to cast a natural, uneven cold glow on the face with a bit of shadows.

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What is portrait photography?

Portrait photography or portraiture is simply photography of a single person or even a group of people. Portraits tend to showcase the expressions, personality, and mood of the people in the images. As a general rule the focus of a portrait photograph is usually the person’s face, although the entire body, and even a background or context can be included.

Portrait photographs go beyond just photographing the people where the face, especially the eyes are always given more attention in a portrait as they speak the mood and portray the emotions of the person. Posing also plays a major role in creating effective portraits as it contributes to the overall power and story of the image. Some types of portrait photography include..

Portrait photography has had a long and varied history since Louis Daguerre introduced the photographic process in 1839. In that same year, Robert Cornelius produced what’s considered the first photographic self-portrait. He removed the lens cap, ran into the frame and stood still for ten minutes, before returning the cap to its position.

During the American Great Depression, photographers began taking photos of families and individuals suffering from this economic disaster in order to expose the world to the very real suffering migrant workers and low-income families were experiencing every day. These photos were also known as “Dust Bowl Photography.” One of the most iconic photographers of that time is Dorthea Lange because of her 1936 portrait, “Migrant Mother.”

The primary function of the portrait is also the most obvious: identification. Identification means confirming an identity. Starting in the 1880s, photography began to be used not by the police in an effort to be able to identify criminals better. These changes were initiated by Alphonse Bertillon. A law enforcement officer, Bertillon introduced portrait photography as a way of identifying criminals – until then, they had been able to provide a false identity.

Mick Rock

Mick Rock is often credited with photographing the 70’s rock scene. Named “The man who shot the seventies”, his career began at an early age, when he began to photograph the local rock scene.

In early 1972, Mick met David Bowie, and became his official photographer in the 70’s. Alongside Bowie’s 1976 album Pin-Ups, he also photographed numerous different albums – including Queen’s Sheer Heart Attack & Queen II (The album that later inspired their music video for Bohemian Rhapsody), Lou Reed’s Transformer, amongst many others. He also produced and directed the seminal music videos for Bowie: ‘John, I’m Only Dancing’, ‘Jean Genie’, ‘Space Oddity’, and ‘Life On Mars’.

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Portrait photography has had a long and varied history since Louis Daguerre introduced the photographic process in 1839. In that same year, Robert Cornelius produced what’s considered the first photographic self-portrait. Photography has served many purposes, mainly to commemorate occasions and periods in history. Early photographic portraits followed the conventions of the painted portrait. With traditional backdrops used in painting, early photographic portraits indicated a person’s societal status or occupation through clothing, setting or the surrounding objects.

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Louis Daguerre France

(1787 – 1851) UK

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Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was a French artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the eponymous daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as one of the fathers of photography. On January 7, 1839, members of the French Académie des Sciences were shown products of an invention that would forever change the nature of visual representation: photography. The astonishingly precise pictures they saw were the work of Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787–1851), a romantic painter and printmaker most famous until then as the proprietor of the Diorama, a popular Parisian spectacle featuring theatrical painting and lighting effects. Each daguerreotype (as Daguerre dubbed his invention) was a one-of-a-kind image on a highly polished, silver-plated sheet of copper.

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Henry William Fox-Talbot 

(1800 – 1877) UK

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William Henry Fox Talbot was an English scientist, inventor and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries. He was also an accomplished mathematician involved in the research of light and optics and as a result he invented the polarizing microscope. He was also politically active and a Member of Parliament In this early technique of photography, a sheet of paper coated with silver chloride was exposed to light in a camera obscura; those areas hit by light became dark in tone, yielding a negative image.

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Herb Ritts

(1952-2002) US

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Herb Ritts’ work concentrated on black and white photography and portraits, often in the style of classical Greek sculpture, which emphasized the human shape. Ritts prominently photographed celebrities in various locales throughout California. He also took many fashion and nude photographs of fashion models Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington, and Cindy Crawford, including “Tatjana, Veiled Head, Tight View, Joshua Tree, 1988. The first video he directed was Madonna in “Cherish” in 1989. In 1991, he won two MTV Video Awards for his work on music videos by Janet Jackson and Chris Isaak.

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HAMPTONNE PORTRAITS

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STILL LIFE OBJECTS

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Louis Daguerre:

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was a French artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the eponymous daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as one of the fathers of photography.

Born: November 18, 1787

Died: July 10, 1851

Daguerreotype:

Louis invented the first practical process of photography, known as the daguerreotype. The daguerreotype is a direct-positive process, creating a highly detailed image on a sheet of copper plated with a thin coat of silver without the use of a negative. The process required great care. The silver-plated copper plate had first to be cleaned and polished until the surface looked like a mirror. Even though the portrait was the most popular subject, the daguerreotype was used to record many other images such as topographic and documentary subjects, antiquities, still lives, natural phenomena and remarkable events.

Henry William Fox-Talbot:

Fox Talbot was an English member of parliament, scientist, inventor and a pioneer of photography who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries.

Born: February 11, 1800

Died: September 17, 1877

Calotype:

Calotype or talbotype is an early photographic process introduced in 1841 by William Henry Fox Talbot, using paper coated with silver iodide. Paper texture effects in calotype photography limit the ability of this early process to record low contrast details and textures. The light had to filter through the paper negative and then provide all the energy to make the print image. An exposure time of fifteen minutes would be good – this could extend to half an hour or even several hours on an overcast day.

Julia Margaret Cameron:

Julia Margaret Cameron was a British photographer who is considered one of the most important portraitists of the 19th century.

She is known for her soft-focus close-ups of famous Victorian men and for illustrative images depicting characters from mythology, Christianity, and literature. Much of her work has connections to pictorialism and even movements such as The Pre-Rapahelites, and often had a dream-like, constructed quality to the images.

The history of photographic studios and photography dates back to the 1840s with the invention of processes for recording camera pictures, by Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre. The earliest photographic studios made use of natural daylight to create photographic portraits.

Early Pioneers of photography

Louis Daguerre 1787-1851

Louis Daguerre is credited with creating the first commercially successful photographic process known as the Daguerrueotype. It consisted of silver plates and chemicals such as iodine and bromine to create images. Numerous portrait studio’s opened their doors from 1840 onward. Daguerreotypes were very expensive, so only the wealthy could afford to have their portrait taken. Even though the portrait was the most popular subject, the daguerreotype was used to record many other images such as natural phenomenon’s and remarkable events.

Henry Fox Talbot 1800-1877

Henry Fox Talbot was an English chemist, linguist, archaeologist, and pioneer of photography. He is best known for his development of the calotype, an early photographic process that was an improvement over the daguerreotype of the French inventor Louis Daguerre. Talbot’s calotypes used a photographic negative, from which multiple prints could be made. He and Louis Daguerre are best known as the main inventors of the camera and early photography.

Robert Cornelius 1809-1893

Robert Cornelius was an American photographer and pioneer in the history of photography. He designed the photographic plate for the first photograph taken in the United States, an image of a School taken by in 1839.

Louis Daguerre (18 November 1787 – 10 July 1851)- created the daguerreotype ( first publicly available photographic process )

He is a French artist and photographer, closely working with Joseph Niepce. He developed the diorama theatre which is a three-dimensional full-size or miniature model.

Henry William Fox-Talbot (1800 – 1877) UK- Fox Talbot was an English member of parliament, scientist, inventor and a pioneer of photography,  develop the three primary elements of photography: developing, fixing, and printing. Although simply exposing photographic paper to the light produced an image, it required extremely long exposure times. He accidently discovered that there was an image after a very short exposure.

He called this the ‘calotype’ and patented the process in 1841.