First I flagged my images using p and x and stared them using the starring system. I then selected 4 portraits that where rated 4 starts or more to edit into final images.
Then I went into develop mode and adjusted the white balance and the exposure and contrast in order to refine the image.
when I was happy with my editing I exported the image into the media drive in the size x1000.
I then repeated this for the remaining 3 images
An environmental portrait is a portrait of a person or people in their natural environment for example doing their job or participating in a hobby.
Born in 1917 in Manhattan New York Morse was a career staff photographer who worked for a life based magazine he was mostly known for his images of theatre stars and being sent to work as a photographer during ww2.
some examples of his work:
Task plan 3 photoshoots one inside one outside and one with 2 or more people.
Photoshoot 1: For the inside photoshoot I will ask one of my friends if I can photograph them in their room. Lounging like they would do in their day to day life to give the image an intel into what they are like as a person. I will probably use a higher angle to include as much of the environment as possible.
Photoshoot 2: For the outside photoshoot I would like to take some photos in a cloudy environment of someone doing their job.
Photoshoot 3: For the two or more people shoot I will ask my friend if I can photograph her and her brother outside from either a canted angle or a lower angle to create a more dimensional photograph.
Its a celebration of our modern day democracy which started in 1769 when the Jersey corn riots took place.
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:
EDITING: in the first round of editing I selected images using p (pick) and x (reject) . After that I filtered my images by selecting the white flag.
then I went through the images that I had selected using P(pick) and rated them using a staring system. This allows for me to pick the best images.
then I went into develop mode to edit the photos with a star rating of 4 and above.
after entering develop mode I adjusted the white balance as the first step of my editing.
then I adjust the exposure and the contrast until I am happy with the final image.
A cyanotype is a photographic printing process which produces a cyan/blue print. Engineers used this process in the 20th century to create blueprints. This process involves using two chemicals ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide. This process what discovered by a British scientist Sir John Hershel in 1842.
Was a British botanist and photographer Anna was the first person to publish a book with photographic images her 19th century cyanotypes used light exposure to create detailed images of botanical specimens.
Annas use of cyanotypes helped to merge photography and science and showed that photography has a potential in books.
1849 Anna published her book ‘Photographs Of British Algae: cyanotype impressions’ which only had a limited amount of copies.
Here is the cyanotype I created on our visit to the Hamptonne using flowers and leaves that I had collected. I placed them on top of the paper and left it in the sun to process then I placed it in water for 2-3 minutes to stop it from developing more and set it out to dry.
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.
The Hamptonne country life museum is a 15th century house and farm which gives visitors an insight into the rural life which was carried out in Jersey.
Things To Do On Your Visit:
You can explore the cider barn take a walk through the apple orchard meet the farm animals and take a walk inside the Syvert house which is a decorated and furnished farm house which gives visitors a 1940s feel of what life in jersey was like during the German occupation.
you also get the chance to meet characters from the past and learn about their jobs.
Location: located in the middle of the parish St Lawrence the Hamptonne is engulfed by the country side of jersey this location allows for a true feel of what it was like to be living in jersey in the 15th century. This also allows for a calm and relaxing environment whilst visiting the museum.
A jersey based photographer and film maker who’s pictures are inspired by ‘painting with light’ through the inspiration of 17th century paintings.
https://littleriverpictures.com
some examples of his work
Dorothea Lange ‘approached a hungry and desperate mother as if she was drawn by a magnet’ when she was driving north through San Louis Obispo county six years after the Dust Bowl she encountered the woman in a migrant workers campsite which was still effected by this tragedy.
The children looking away represent the strength that a mother needs to shelter her children from the outside world, however Florence ‘the migrant mothers’ facial expressions show how Dust Bowl migrants would look at the damage it caused their surroundings.
This image sets an emotive feeling of sadness as it is in a black and white colour scheme and the photo was taken to portray the hunger, poverty and helplessness the average American endured during the the dust bowl in 1930.
This image was taken with a high shutter speed as it shows the motion of her face as it expresses her emotions toward her surroundings and a lower ISO as the reflection on her face shows that the weather was probably sunny allowing for the highlights to stand out.
Photography is a form of using images created by shadows and lights to change the way the human eye perceives everyday objects. Photography can be used to make us feel certain emotions based on tones, shades and depth.
It can also be used as art, photography has grown as an art form since we have been able to edit images using apps such as Photoshop and lightroom this allows photographers to manipulate their images to express different feelings depending on what they wish the image to portray to their audience it also allows artists to capture a moment with the freedom to experiment with new tools.
Photography uses multiple combinations of tools and skills which don’t only include the settings on a camera such as lighting, angles, exposure and captivating a moment. There are 7 different types of photography that you can learn to help benefit your photography skills these include fashion, life, portrait, photojournalism and more.
Theres a use of physics and chemistry in all aspects of photography which allow for a perfect photo the camera is able to pick up aspects of everyday life that aren’t visible to the naked eye allowing us to discover more through an image.
