The Camera Obscura

The camera obscura was first used in 400BC by a Chinese philosopher, Mo-tzu. The device is box shaped and used in a darkened room, which has a small hole for light. the light passing through the hole, reflects the outside view into the surface opposite the hole.

The camera obscura was formally used to study eclipses to avoid damage to the eyes, the device was also used as a drawing aid which allowed the artist to trace over the projection, creative accurate drawings of the outside.

Nicephore Niepce

Nicephore Niepce 1765-1833 was a French inventor. Niepce is often credited as the founder of photography. Niepce developed heliography, which produced a print made from a photoengraved printing plate. Niepce created these prints using the camera obscura. Nicephore Niepce is now known to have produced the oldest surviving photograph of a real world scene.

Louis Daguerre

Louis Daguerre 1787-1851 was a french artist and photographer. Daguerre is best known for his invention which he called ‘Daguerreotype’ , this was the first publicly available photographic process. It was used between the 1840s and 1850s and was also affordable. The images were produced using a sheet of silver plated copper and fumes, the photograph would take a few seconds or longer to develop.

Henry Fox Talbot

Henry Fox Talbot was an English scientist, inventor and photography pioneer. Talbot invented the ‘salt and pepper’ and the calotype process. Talbot used his salt and pepper process to create permanent pictures, he placed his paper into a salt solution, dried it and then coated in a silver nitrate solution. when placed in the light, the solution would darken

Richard Maddox

Richard Maddox was an English photographer. Maddox created the Gelatine Dry Plate process, Maddox would use gelatine on a glass plate and silver bromide which meant it would react when exposed to sunlight

George Eastman

Eastman was an American entrepreneur who founded Eastman Kodak, he helped bring the use of roll film into the mainstream. Eastman created his first roll of film in 1889 where he then began distributing it. The Kodak camera was a huge success and very popular due to its small size and affordable price.

Kodak Brownie

the Kodak brownie camera was created by George Eastman in 1900. The brownie ran off of film and was cheap at the time as it was made of cardboard and had very basic functions. Childrens love for the brownie meant it became widespread, the brownie began to popularise photography. Soldiers would take the brownie away to war and captured some of the images we see today.

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.

First I uploaded my images from the Hamptonne photoshoot from the Media Drive onto Lightroom.

In the First Round of Editing I divided my images into Picked and Rejected using Shift + P (for Pick) or Shift + X (for Reject). I did this a few times until I landed with the images I have chosen to edit.

Next, I Filtered out the chosen images and rated them with stars, this is so I can determine which ones are my absolute favourites quicker.

Next, I sorted the images into Green, which are the ones I want to edit, Yellow, the ones I might reconsider editing and Red, the ones I do not want to edit.

Finally, I edited my chosen images, I did this by adjusting things like exposure, contrast, colour as well as cropping it.

Some of my final images:

Editing One Image

I decided to edit this picture because I really like the composition and the way the light hits the brushes. I thought the detail on the brush looked very interesting and I wanted to make them stand out more by turning up the contrast and texture. I turned the hue down and saturation up for the colour red in order to make the table cloth more visible and the embroidered rose stand out. I also played around with the other colours until I could something I liked. I cropped the image because I think its looks better close up due to the details of the brush.

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Final Edits

Alfred Krupp 1963 – Alfred Krupp, ‘The Cannon King’, was a German industrialist known for his worldwide sale of cast steel cannons and other armaments. He is most famously known for supplying the German army during WW2 with cannons and other weapons.

In my opinion, Arnold Newman is trying to portray Alfred Krupp as a sinister figure in an industrialised world. The lighting in the image is dark and ominous, with harsh lighting sculpturing his face. this harsh lighting creates an almost hell-like tone on Alfred’s face. There is a bright light behind Krupp which could symbolise a halo, this contrasts with the dark harsh lighting on his face. As well as this, the lighting shining on his face is from either side of his, creating these devil- like horns on his forehead. The idea behind this could be that to the Germans, Kropp was seen as an angel and someone who helped them through war, however to everyone else he is portrayed as a man of sin and someone easily compared to satin. the photographer uses a wide angle on the image for possible two reasons, one of them being that Kropp wanted to show off his industrial inventions and had requested this. On the other had the photographer may have used a wide angle lens to highlight the damage Kropp has done in his lifetime, and is trying to make his a less important factor in the image.

Post Worktime

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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

English botanical artist, collector and photographer Anna Atkins was the first person to illustrate a book with photographic images. Her nineteenth-century cyanotypes used light exposure and a simple chemical process to create impressively detailed blueprints of botanical specimens. 

My Cyanotypes

During our day at Hamptonne we attempted to make out own cyanotypes using natural items we found near where we were working.

The corn riots are modern celebration of Jerseys democracy which began in 1769, when the actual riots took place over grain shortages which turned into the royal court being stripped of its power.

Now we celebrate the starting of our democracy with a holiday on September 26.

Rioters paraded from trinity church to the royal square in 1769. now others follow the route taken, on September 26.

There were 500 rioters at the royal square because the price of wheat led to a shortage across the island.

2 years later, all of this led to the code of 1771 was introduced making the states the only body in jersey to make laws.

https://www.jerseyheritage.org/jersey-corn-riots

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 of whom had ‘rentes’ owed to them on properties that were payable in wheat.

A group of disgruntled individuals from Trinity, St Martin, St John, St Lawrence and St Saviour marched towards Town where their numbers were swelled by residents of St Helier. The group was met at the door of the Royal Court and was urged to disperse and send its demands in a more respectful manner. However, the crowd forced its way into the Court Room armed with clubs and sticks. Inside, they ordered that their demands be written down in the Court book.

Black Lives Matter Movement

https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/

#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and cantering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives. The Black Lives Matter movement comprises a broad array of people and organizations.

Photography is highly important and plays a role in our life more then we realise.

It allows us to see things we aren’t able to see from the places we haven’t been or things we have never seen before i.e. abstracts and things beyond our eyes, it can capture the past and present in unbelievable aspects.

Different artists photograph different types of photographs allowing us to be involved with other ways of how they can be taken and how different photographs can be made to look.

Portrait –a painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one depicting only the face or head and shoulders.

Landscape – all the visible features of an area of land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.

Abstract – relating to or denoting art that does not attempt to represent external reality, but rather seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, colours, and textures.

Still life –a painting or drawing of an arrangement of objects, typically including fruit and flowers and objects contrasting with these in texture, such as bowls and glassware.

Architectural – Capturing aesthetically pleasing shots of a building’s interior or exterior.