What is a Cyanotype?

Cyanotype is a 170 year old photographic printing process that produces prints in a distinctive dark greenish-blue. The word cyan comes from the Greek, meaning  “dark blue substance.”

What were cyanotypes used for?

The cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces blue prints using coated paper and light. The process was discovered by the scientist and astronomer Sir John Herschel in 1842. Herschel used the cyanotype process so that he could reproduce mathematical tables along with other notes and diagrams

How to make a Cyanotype print?:

*Cyanotype paper (pre-prepared)

*Glass/acrylic sheet

*objects (Dry leafs,flowers or hands)

The science behind Cyanotypes:

The cyanotype process uses a mixture of iron compounds, which when exposed to UV light and washed in water oxidise to create Prussian Blue images. The technique was invented in 1841 by Sir John Herschel and was popularised by photographer and botanist Anna Atkins.

Anna Atkins:

Born: March 16, 1799, Tonbridge, United Kingdom and died June 9, 1871

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. 

Anna’s innovative use of new photographic technologies merged art and science, and exemplified the exceptional potential of photography in books.

Anna’s self-published her detailed and meticulous botanical images using the cyanotype photographic process in her 1843 book, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions. With a limited number of copies, it was the first book ever to be printed and illustrated by photography.

Hamptonne Country Life Museum gives the visitor a unique insight into the rural life carried on in Jersey for centuries. Dating back to the 15th Century the house and farm are perfect for discovering the rural history of Jersey.  Explore the different houses which make up Hamptonne, find out more about Jersey’s history of cider making in the cider barn and wander through the cider apple orchard and meet the Hamptonne calves, lambs, chickens and piglets in the traditional farmstead. 

Discover Syvret House, a decorated and furnished farmhouse 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.

The Hamptonne farm complex takes its name from Laurens Hamptonne, who purchased it in 1633. The property is also known as ‘La Patente’, as is the name of one of the roads that passes it, after the Grants by Letters Patent received by its owner Richard Langlois in 1445, and by King Charles II to Laurens Hamptonne in 1649.

Royal Patents were awarded to those who had provided a particular service to the monarch or close relative. In Hamptonne’s case, this resulted from his loyalty to the Royalist cause during the English Civil War, when he was Vicomte or executive officer of Jersey’s Royal Court. It was in that role that Hamptonne issued the famous Proclamation in St Helier’s Royal Square on 17 February 1649, declaring Charles II as King after news reached the Island of the execution of Charles I.

Hamptonne’s support of the penniless exiled King Charles II resulted in several grants. One preserved the integrity of the property in perpetuity – it could not be broken up into parts (partages) and split among family members, but would be inherited by the eldest child. Another permitted Hamptonne to rebuild the ruined Colombier (dovecote) originally granted to Richard Langlois. In normal circumstances, such buildings could only be built by Jersey Seigneurs (Lords or holders of a fief.). The Colombier is located to the south-east, slightly beyond the current boundaries of the Museum. This may not have been a source of local popularity for Hamptonne.

Cider apple orchard :

One of Hamptonnes main attraction is the apple cider making and demonstrates how people back then would use the ‘machines’ to turn apples from the orchid into apple cider.

Every year hamptonne has a cider making festival from collecting apples from the trees in the orchids at the beginning of October and then turning it into cider.

To the east of the farm complex is the Cider Apple Orchard, which consists of apple trees chosen for their sweet, bitter and sharp flavours to provide a good balance for cider making when mixed together. The footpath through the orchard takes you into a small area of woodland. Wooded areas at the back of farms provided an important source of wood for fuel and building materials, while also supporting a rich variety of plants and wildlife. Follow the footpath down to the grazing Meadow and, if you wish, continue on the public footpath that joins the National Trust for Jersey’s Toad Trail.

Tom Kennedy:

Tom is a local photographer who mainly takes photographs of the characters at hamptonne, using natural light like they did back then in the 17th century when painting pictures. . He studied photography, film, television and sound at the Plymouth College of Art and Design. He then went on to work in the London film industry for several years before returning to Jersey. Tom is in charge of all camera and sound production.

Some of his work:

Overall the site is square in shape. It includes ranges of buildings built in different periods, arranged around two courtyards. While the farm has medieval origins, consecutive owners have made marked improvements to the living accommodation. The main buildings are therefore named after the Langlois, Hamptonne and Syvret families, who lived here between 15th and 19th centuries.

When you exit the shop, you enter the North Courtyard along the side of which runs the Northern Range – a row of 19th century farm buildings constructed to meet the requirements of the agriculture workforce, its vehicles and horses. It include a Labourers Cottage, Coach House, Bake House & Laundry, and Stables. Facing the Stables is a glazed barn in which important farming devices and implements are displayed. There is a walled vegetable and herb garden to the east, beyond which is the Hamptonne Playground and Cider Apple Orchard.

To the south is Langlois House, which comprises stabling and an undercroft on the ground floor, and a parlour and bedroom on the first floor. At the south-west corner is a twin-arched stone gateway providing access to the roadway. To the south of Langlois House are the pigsties and a spring-fed pond.

To the west is the Cider House or pressoir with its granite apple crusher and press; to the southern end of this row is Syvret House which consists of a kitchen, parlour, two bedrooms and a small cabinet. The House is presented as the home of a tenant farmer around 1948.

Camera obscura: Dark chamber

The Latin name means ‘dark chamber’ consisted of small darken room with light coming through from a single tiny hole. The light passing through the small hole will project an image of a scene outside the box on the surface opposite to the hole.

Nicephore Niepce:

Born march 7th 1765 in Chalon-sur-Saone France and died in 1833 Chalon-sur-Saone France. He was an French inventor and commonly credited for his photography and a pioneer in that field. He was the first to make a permanent photographic image.

Louis Daguerre:

Born  18 November 1787 and died on 10 July 1851, he was a French artist and photographer recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as one of the fathers of photography.
Daguerre explained that the magic of his dioramas resulted from his use of light in the scenes. He claimed to have discovered a system of painting that could transform the appearance of an object by switching between reflected and refracted light, as well as by changing the colour of the light that fell upon it.

Daguerreotype:

The daguerreotype was the first commercially successful photographic process (1839-1860) in the history of photography. Named after the inventor, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, each daguerreotype is a unique image on a silvered copper plate. The daguerreotype is accurate, detailed and sharp.

Henry fox Talbot

William Henry Fox Talbot is the father of the negative-positive photographic process, as it is practiced today. Talbot was born in Melway; Dorsey, England in 1800 to a wealthy well established family. He was educated at Harrow and Cambridge University; he was deeply interested and knowledgeable in a variety of subjects: botany, art, biblical, astronomy, and ancient language. Talbot was an accomplished mathematician involved in the research of light and optics; he invented the polarizing microscope. He was also politically active and a Member of Parliament. He lived his adult life at this family estate, Lacock Abby, originally built in 1232.

Talbot’s interest in drawing but lack of craftsmanship led him to experiment with capturing and securing an image. In 1835 Talbot had successfully made a photograph of his home, Lacock Abby, which he referred to as “the first instance on record of a house painting it’s own portrait”. He was unaware of Daguerre’s photographic progress in France, and did not publish a description of the process until after the announcement by the French Government of the daguerreotype, January 6, 1839.

Richard Maddox

Maddox is best known for his invention light weight gelatine negative plates for photography in 1871, which enabled photographers to use commercial dry plates off the shelf instead of having to prepare their own emulsions in a mobile darkroom

In 1871, Dr. Richard Maddox developed a way to use gelatine instead of glass for the negatives. A turning point in photography, the process allowed photographers to develop a dry-plate technique rather than the wet plates of the collodion process.

George Eastman

What did George Eastman invent and when?

Eastman introduced the Kodak camera in 1888. Thanks to his inventive genius, anyone could now take pictures with a handheld camera simply by pressing a button. He coined the slogan, “you press the button, we do the rest,” and within a year it became a well-known phrase.

He was a major philanthropist, establishing the Eastman School of Music, and schools of dentistry and medicine at the University of Rochester and in London Eastman Dental Hospital; contributing to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the construction of several buildings at the second campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on the Charles River. In addition, he made major donations to Tuskegee University and Hampton University, historically black universities in the South. With interests in improving health, he provided funds for clinics in London and other European cities to serve low-income residents.

Kodak (brownie)

What was unique about the Kodak Brownie?

One of the very first cameras to make photography simpler and more accessible to everyone was the Kodak Brownie. It was a fixed shutter speed camera with no aperture control or focusing abilities–and was essentially little more than a box with a fake leather exterior for gripping purposes.

How much did the Brownie camera cost in 1900?

The Brownie camera was offered for $1 in 1900. It sold 10 million units in just five years, a success beyond the company’s wildest expectations.

film/print photography

How are film photos printed?

The paper is exposed to a photographic negative, a positive transparency (or slide), or a digital image file projected using an enlarger or digital exposure unit such as a Light Jet or Minilab printer. Following exposure, the paper is processed to reveal and make permanent the latent image.

You can still get most of your film developed and turned into prints through stores that specialize in photography. The actual services vary across different companies. But there are a number of specialty photography retailers all over the country that will develop colour and B&W film in a variety of different sizes.

print photography

First introduced in the 1880s, film negatives became increasingly popular by the early 20th century and essentially replaced glass negatives by the 1920s. gelatin silver print (silver print) • Introduced in the 1870s, the gelatin silver print quickly became the most common photographic printing process.

How were pictures first printed? The earliest photographs were mostly made on metal plates using Daguerre’s process, commonly known as a daguerreotype. While this process resulted in a stable image, the only way to duplicate an image was to take another picture of the original daguerreotype.

Digital photography

Digital photography uses cameras containing arrays of electronic photodetectors to produce images focused by a lens, as opposed to an exposure on photographic film. The captured images are digitized and stored as a computer file ready for further digital processing, viewing, electronic publishing, or digital printing.

What do you need for digital photography?

Memory/Film If you choose an analog camera, you’ll need film. If you choose a digital camera, even if it has internal memory, you’ll want to get a memory card. There are many different types of memory cards, but the two most common are SD (Secure Digital) and CF (Compact Flash).

What is digital photography example?

Electronic/digital cameras: These capture images/photographs and store them in built-in/integrated storage media cards. Computing devices: Examples include a webcam integrated with a computer/laptop or a scanner that enables the capturing of existing physical (paper/card) image.

Information

Hamptonne is a country life museum that shows the history of the Jersey farmers and culture in the 15th century. It contains different areas for visitors to explore and learn about, including, the apple orchard, houses, bakehouse, playground and animal farm.

History

Hamptonne got its name in 1633 when Laurens Hamptonne purchased the farm. It is also known as ‘La Patente’, as is the name of one of the roads that passes it, after the Grants by Letters Patent received by its owner Richard Langlois in 1445, and by King Charles II to Laurens Hamptonne in 1649.

Cider Apple Orchard

The Cider Apple Orchard is one of Hamptonne’s most popular attractions due to all the different apple trees which provide a good balance for cider making when mixed together.

Every year, Hampttone holds a cider-making festival where all the apples from the trees are collected at the beginning of October, then turned into cider. The old cider press is used and people come to enjoy the traditional food, music, games and cider.

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Living History Characters

Inside the houses and around the farm you will meet different performers acting like the people who used to live and work at the farm in the 15th century. These people wear old traditional clothing and you are able to interact with them and learn more about what it was like to live in Hamptonne. These characters are available from late March through to October and they include: the Goodwife, Blacksmith, Wool Spinners, Knitters and Dyers.

Tom Kennedy

Tom Kennedy is a local jersey photographer that uses natural lighting in order to create painting-like photographs of the characters and make them seem more natural and like they are in the characters’ time periods. He was influenced by 17th-century painters including Rembrandt and Vermeer.

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Hamptonne Country Life Museum gives the visitor a unique insight into the rural life carried on in Jersey for centuries. Dating back to the 15th Century the house and farm are perfect for discovering the rural history of Jersey.  Explore the different houses which make up Hamptonne, find out more about Jersey’s history of cider making in the cider barn and wander through the cider apple orchard and meet the Hamptonne calves, lambs, chickens, and piglets in the traditional farmstead.

Discover Syvret House, a decorated and furnished farmhouse 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.

Hamptonne is known in Jersey for its homemade cider which is crafted using traditional methods from the 16th century. To the east of the farm complex is the Cider Apple Orchard, which consists of apple trees chosen for their sweet, bitter and sharp flavours to provide a good balance for cider making when mixed together.

Overall the site is square in shape. It includes ranges of buildings built in different periods, arranged around two courtyards. While the farm has medieval origins, consecutive owners have made marked improvements to the living accommodation. The main buildings are therefore named after the Langlois, Hamptonne and Syvret families, who lived here between 15th and 19th centuries. To the south is Langlois House, which comprises stabling and an undercroft on the ground floor, and a parlour and bedroom on the first floor. At the south-west corner is a twin-arched stone gateway providing access to the roadway. To the south of Langlois House are the pigsties and a spring-fed pond. To the west is the Cider House or pressoir with its granite apple crusher and press; to the southern end of this row is Syvret House which consists of a kitchen, parlour, two bedrooms and a small cabinet. The House is presented as the home of a tenant farmer around 1948.

The first photographic camera developed for commercial manufacture was a daguerreotype camera, built by Alphonse Giroux in 1839. Giroux signed a contract with Daguerre and Isadore Niepce to produce the cameras in France, with each device and accessories costing 400 francs.

the Brownie camera was one of the first affordable cameras readily available to the public. the brownie cost £1 pound to purchase in 1901 when it was first manufacture until 1935 when the camera was discontinued. the price is equivalent to £31 in todays money

photography has been used since the mid 1800s to display passion in the hobby and a to be reviewed at a later date. it has become a passion and livelihood to thousand of people all over the world. in 2021 more pictures are taken world wide every minute and during the entire 19th century. this figure truly demonstrates the improvements to photography technology that has become in the last 100 years.

“the process or art of producing images of objects on sensitized surfaces by the chemical action of light or of other forms of radiant energy, as x-rays, gamma rays, or cosmic rays”

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/photography

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How is Photography used?

Photography has come a long way in the last twenty years. Now photography is used all over the world to document many things for example, personal experiences, television shows, and research. Photography is an easy way for people do capture their memories and document their lives on a small scale level now that cameras have become so readily available. It also allows people to express themselves using photography as a form of art.

Photography as an Art

Only recently has h[photography began to be considered an art form. Personally I believe that photography has always been an art form as it allows people to express themselves in many different styles and settings. Photography allows people to be as creative and imaginative as they want with very few limits as to what they do and where they can go. This means that anyone who owns a modern phone can become an artist in their own way.

Photography as a profession

Thousands of people all over the world make a living through photography. Whether its through taking and selling pictures through on your own or thorough a company with very high end equipment. Photography is heavily used in documentaries to show the true nature of the world or in heavily populated areas, rich and poor to make clear and document the true stories these places tell. Professional photography is an ambition in younger generations as it it they way forward and the war to make people aware.

Why do people take photographs?

Photographs are a way that we have physical memories, something that we can cherish whenever we please.

Why is photography important?

Photographs play an enormous part in our day to day life. We see photographs everywhere from storybooks to wall hangings. They help remind us of people, places, emotions and tell us stories.

What skills do you need to be a good photographer?

• Creativity
• Patience
• Good technical photography skills
• Ability to pay attention to detail
• Passion

How many different kinds of photography can you think of?

• Portrait
• Fashion
• Sports
• Still Life
• Architectural
• Landscape
• Wildlife
• Wedding

How does photography help us see the world?

Photography allows us to frame the moment that we have considered deeply and capture it so that we can go back and take another look.

Can photographic images be trusted?

Images are cropped, edited and can be perceived and portrayed in different ways, and therefore cannot be considered as trusted.

What are the similarities and differences between photography and other types of visual art?

Both forms of art can capture moments in time that are accurate.  Although some consider photography to be the truth in capturing moments, painting has the same effect.

When would it not be OK to take a photograph?

Public places where photography is strictly forbidden and it is important to adhere to and rules put into place.

How do you know when you’ve made a good photograph?

The following points are what makes a photograph considered a good photograph..

• An Interesting Subject. First things first, you have to shoot something that you find fascinating, intriguing, beautiful, or otherwise interesting
• A Good Composition
• Good Technique (F-Stop, Shutter Speed, ISO)
• Good Light

Are photographers also artists?

Yes, anyone can be a photographer; a random guy on the street can pick up a camera or use his phone and take a pretty picture of the sunset.

Where is the best place to see photographs?

• Social media
• Newspapers
• Magazines
• Books

What kind of photography interests you most?

Wedding photography and architectural photography are the two main types of photography that interest me the most. I am aware that they are two completely different types of photography. However, I love how different and how there’s the emotion behind wedding photography. Secondly, I fell in love with architectural photography after studying Textiles as a GCSE as one of my chosen topics were Structure.

its purpose

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. 

As an art

 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.  

As a science

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.

Camera Obscura

A camera obscura (‘Dark Chamber’ in Latin) is a darkened room or box with a small hole or lens on one side. The light comes from the small hole which then projects an image on to the wall upside down. This technique was used for centuries to view eclipses without damaging people’s eyes, then from the 17h century artists used it to draw.

Nicephore Niepce

Nicephore Niepce was a French inventor of the 18th century. He was credited as the ‘inventor of photography’ because he created the first permanent photographic image through the process of heliography (“sun writing” in Greek).  He captured the scene with a camera obscura projected onto a pewter plate thinly coated with a naturally occurring asphalt before letting the photo sit for 8 hours to gather exposure. His work inspired other inventors and artists like Louis Daguerre.

Louis Daguerre + Daguerreotype

Louis Daguerre was a French artist and photographer, recognised for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography. He is known as one of the fathers of photography.

The daguerreotype was the first commercially successful photographic process (1839-1860) in the history of photography. This method consisted of treating silver-plated copper sheets with iodine to make them sensitive to light, then exposing them in a camera and “developing” the images with warm mercury vapour. Unlike heliography, this process only needed 20 minutes of exposure.

Henry Fox Talbot

Henry Fox Talbot was an English scientist, inventor and photography pioneer who invented the ‘salted paper’ and ‘calotype’ processes.

The ‘Salted Paper’ process was discovered in 1834, and it was used to create photogenic drawings, meaning drawings produced by light. The process involved dipping the paper in a solution of sodium chloride and coating one side with silver nitrate. An impression of an object was then made by placing it on the sensitized side of the paper and exposing it to the sun.

Calotype(Ancient Greek for “beautiful impression”), also know as Talbotype, was introduce in 1841. In this technique, 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.

Richard Maddox

Richard Leach Maddox was an English photographer and physician who invented lightweight gelatin negative plates for photography in 1871. This enabled photographers to use commercial dry plates off the shelf instead of having to prepare their own emulsions in a mobile darkroom. This meant that cameras were now small enough to be handheld which made photography more convenient.

George Eastman and Kodak(Brownie)

George Eastman was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream.

The Brownie was first introduced in 1900 and it was a basic cardboard box camera with a simple meniscus lens that took 2 1/4-inch square pictures on 117 roll film. Its original price was $1, with the film rolls and processing being even cheaper, and it allowed the product to sell more than Eastman thought. Brownies were marketed to children and were also taken to war by soldiers.

Digital Photography

Digital photography uses cameras containing arrays of electronic photodetectors to produce images focused by a lens, as opposed to an exposure on photographic film. The first digital picture was taken in 1957 by Russel Kirsch and it was one of his son. Digital photographs have become more common now due to the ‘camera’ tool on phones, which has made photography more accessible than ever.