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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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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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For this project I printed out various photos from a previous photoshoot and used the guillotine, craft knifes and foam boards to make different photo montages. Photo montage is  is the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photographs into a new image. Sometimes the resulting composite image is photographed so that the final image may appear as a seamless physical print.

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Once I printed these photos out I used a craft knife to cut out the women in my portrait and placed both over a the background photo of old workers from Hamptonne given to us by Jersey Heritage. These will be

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For this second piece I used a photo I took at Hamptonne which I then cut into three so that I could re-arrange them after mounting them onto foam board.

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For this photoshoot we arranged items given to us from Hamptonne by the Jersey Heritage

What am I photographing?

For this photoshoot I will be taking portraits photos of people in their working environments

How am i going to produce the images (lighting / equipment etc)?

I will be using just my cannon DSLR camera and possibly my phone camera with no extra lighting tools

	location	subject	photo type
Inside	Homefields	Fishmonger	waist up, headshot
Outside	Grouville Bus Shelter	Grouville School Site Manager	full body, headshot
Multiple people	Hautlieu Canteen	Students	Full body

Contact sheets

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.

Final Versions

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.

An environmental portrait is a portrait taken in the main subject’s usual environment, which could be places like their home or place of work, and they typically illuminate/highlight the subject’s life and/or surroundings. The term is most often used as a genre of photography.

When taking photos of a person in their natural surroundings, generally you will be able to more clearly portray their character/personality, therefore portraying their personality, rather than just a likeness of their physical appearance. It is also thought that when photographing a subject in their natural surroundings, the subject will be more at ease, and so be more conducive to expressing themselves, as opposed to in a studio, which can be a rather intimidating and artificial experience. The background in these photos is a key feature as it portrays part of their characteristics and personality which are often things pointed out by the environment that someone works/lives/rests in.

Photographer James Philip Nelson was born in 1967 in Sevenoaks, Kent. He spent his childhood in Africa, Asia and South America, traveling around with his father, who worked as a geologist for International Shell. At the age of 7, he was sent to Stoneyhurst College boarding school in Lancashire UK.

In 2010, Nelson started to work on his second book, Before they Pass. Away He travelled for 3 years and photographed more than 35 indigenous tribes around the world in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and the South Pacific, using a 50-year-old 4x5in camera. Nelson said the project was “inspired by Edward S. Curtis and his great photographs of Native Americans”. Like Curtis, Nelson documents his subjects in a romantic, stylised and posed manner, with the aim of “putting them on a pedestal”. Nelson remarks that the project is not meant to convey “a documentary truth, but rather [his] own artistic interpretation and a celebration of diversity and beauty.” The tribes that Nelson photographed include the Huli and Kalam tribes of New Guinea, the Tsaatan of Mongolia and the Mursi people of the Omo River valley in southern Ethiopia. In a TED talk he described the working process used in this project and stated it occasionally took “months trying to find [these indigenous peoples] and then again weeks to gain their trust and permission to photograph them.” Nelson borrowed the funds for the project from a Dutch billionaire, Marcel Boekhoorn. As a result of the project, a book containing the photographs and texts, a limited edition of the book, as well as printed photo portraits were published.

More of his work:

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.