.The Patent Diamond Cameo photograph was registered by F.R. Window of London in 1864. Four small oval portraits (1″ x 3/4“) were placed on a carte de visite in the shape of a diamond, each portrait being of the same person photographed in a different position.
My response to the Dimond Cameo
First I used the Elliptical Marquee tool to shape around my image. Then I added it on a plain white background.
Then I measured the other images By copying my first shape to make sure they where all the same size and then repeated this with all Four of my images.
Finally when I have set out all the images into the shape of a Dimond I changed the background to pink and added shadows to each individual image.
Rembrandt lighting consists of a single light source placed on a 45 degree offset from the subject, about 5 feet away. Positioned roughly two feet higher than eye level, the light source is angled slightly downward and hits the side of the face that is farthest away from the camera. It creates a triangle on the side where the shadow is. Rembrandt lighting is used to create a mysterious or moody portrait. The viewer’s attention should be drawn to the triangle of light on the subject’s cheek. Typically this lighting was used for portrait subjects with round or full faces because it creates a slimming effect.
Light: Lighting styles are determined by the positioning of your light source. Rembrandt lighting is created by the single light source being at a 40 to 45-degree angle and higher than the subject. Use cans use both flashlights and continuous lights.
Lens: Use a 35mm or 50mm if space is at a premium – or if you’re looking at including more of the subject than just the head and shoulders. A 50mm works really nicely for portraits and will give a nice depth of field if you’re shooting at a shallow aperture. But a 35mm will give you a wider point of view and is great to fit more of the body in of your subject.
Where does it come from?
Rembrandt lighting takes its name from the famous Dutch painter Rembrandt. He was a master of the chiaroscuro technique. And he often used this kind of light in his paintings, particularly in his self-portraits. Rembrandt loved to paint himself with this kind of light.
A camera obscura is a dark room with a small hole in one wall. When it’s bright outside, light enters through the hole and projects an upside down image of the outside world onto the wall opposite the hole. The word camera obscure means Darkened room. It blacks out a room from light and creating a small hole lens in the wall. It uses two ways of manipulating light which is refraction and projection.
Ibn al-Haytham is the person who invented the camera obscura and the pinhole camera which is based on the same idea. He carried out experiments with candles and described how the image is formed by rays of light travelling in straight lines. It was used to study eclipses without risking damaging peoples eyes by looking directly into the sun. It also allowed tracing the projected image to produce a highly accurate representation.
Nicephore Niepce & Heliography
Niépce developed heliography, a technique that he used to create the world’s oldest surviving product of a photographic process: a print made from a photoengraved printing plate in 1825. In 1826, during this period of fervent experimentation he used a primitive camera to produce the oldest surviving photograph of a real world scene.
Heliography is a photographic process that was invented by Nicéphore Niepce. In some cases – it is still used today (mainly for photo engraving). It was the process of Heliography that created the first and earliest known permanent photograph, taken from a nature scene.
Louis Daguerre is a French painter and physicist who invented the first practical process of photography, known as the daguerreotype in 1837 which is named after him. This process made it possible to capture the image seen inside a camera obscura and preserve it as an object. It was the first practical photographic process and ushered in a new age of pictorial possibility. Daguerreotypes were very expensive, so only the wealthy/upper class could afford to have their portrait taken. It was also used to record many other images such as topographic and documentary subjects, antiquities, still lives and natural phenomena.
The image above is the first image ever created
Daguerreotypes are easily identified by a mirror-like, highly polished silver surface and its dually negative/positive appearance when viewed from different angles or in raking light. Daguerreotypes are typically housed in miniature hinged cases made of wood covered with leather, paper, cloth, or mother of pearl, It is not flexible and is very heavy but The final product of the daguerreotype is accurate, detailed and sharp.
William Henry Fox Talbot who was credited as the British inventor of photography, revolutionised photography in Britain. Talbot was an expert in many fields including chemistry and optics . He invented the first photographic negative process which became the basis for virtually all photography that followed.In 1834 he discovered how to make and fix images through the action of light and chemistry on paper. These ‘negatives’ could be used to make multiple prints and this process revolutionised image making.
He invented the calotype as he was frustrated by his own lack of skill as a draftsman, Talbot began experimenting with the possibility of creating accurate images of the world through mechanical and chemical means. He was determined to find an alternative way of recording the natural world, without relying upon an artist’s direct hand. He began experimenting with light-sensitive chemical solutions, and developed the “photogenic drawing” process in 1834.
The calotype was the first ever negative-to-positive image process: a piece of paper bathed in chemicals so that it became light sensitive was placed inside the camera, which recorded a negative image on the paper upon exposure to light. The are made by brushing the best quality drawing or writing paper with a solution of silver nitrate, drying the paper, and then immersing it in a solution of potassium iodide to form a light-sensitive layer of silver iodide.
Cornelius, is a chemist and a photography enthusiast from Philadelphia, Shot the world’s first ever photo that portrayed a person’s face in October 1839 , It was a self portrait, of him gazing pensively. In the backyard of his family’s light fixture store.
Cornelius had set his camera up at the back of the family store in Philadelphia. He took the image by removing the lens cap and then running into frame where he sat for a minute before covering up the lens again Since The exposure time was around 10-15 minutes. On the back he wrote “The first light Picture ever taken. 1839.” Rachel Wetzel of the Library’s Conservation Division stated “Taking a portrait is astounding in 1839,”. This was the start of something new at the time, influencing the future generations and its photography.
Julia Margaret Cameron is regarded as one of Britain’s foremost photographers and one of the leading portraitists of the 19th century. She was born on June 11, 1815 in Calcutta (which then belonged to British India), as her father was an official in the British East India Company. She is known for her soft-focus close-ups of famous Victorian men and women, for illustrative images depicting characters from mythology, Christianity, and literature, and for sensitive portraits of men, women and children.
Pictorialism represented both a photographic aesthetic and a set of principles about photography’s role as art. It is an approach to photography that emphasizes beauty of subject matter, tonality, and composition rather than the documentation of reality. Pictorialists believed that photography should be understood as a vehicle for personal expression on par with the other fine arts. The Pictorialist perspective was born in the late 1860s and held sway through the first decade of the 20th century. It approached the camera as a tool that, like the paintbrush and chisel, could be used to make an artistic statement. This meant that photographs could have aesthetic value and be linked to the world of art expression.
Henry Mullins started working at 230 Regent Street in London in the 1840s and moved to Jersey in July 1848, setting up a studio known as the Royal Salon. Initially he was in partnership with a Mr Millward, who is not a very known Photographer. By the following year he was working alone and he continued to work out of the same studio for another 26 years. 1860s he also worked in London for a bit, but judging by the collection of his photographs which is now held by La Société Jersians’, he found plenty of willing sitters in the island prepared to pay lots of money have their portrait taken by him. Mullins became most famous for his cartes de visite and the photographic archive of La Société, that contains a large collection of 9600 images, the online archive holds photos mainly in sets of 16 photographs taken at a single sitting. As photographs were expensive at the time, Henry mainly photographed Jersey’s affluent and influential people, including their families of the more important officers. Long hair, whiskers and beards were shown to be in fashion in the mid-1800s from Mullins’ photos. Due to this and the styling of the portraits, it is difficult to tell the difference between some of the officers in the portraits.
It is a type of lighting pattern for studio portraiture. It is used for taking portrait photos.
What does it do?
It forms a butterfly-shaped shadow under A persons nose, It is used for portraits as it highlights their main features such as the nose and cheekbones. It also creates a shadow under their nose and chin.
You can also identify when butterfly lighting is used in a portrait since you’ll be able to see the main light’s reflection on the top part of the iris in the Persons eyes.
Butterfly lighting flatters the face. Therefore, it is commonly used in glamour, fashion, and high-end portrait photography.
Chiaroscuro is the use of contrast between light and dark to emphasize and illuminate important figures in a painting or drawing. It was first introduced during the Renaissance. It was originally used while drawing on coloured paper though it is now used in paintings and even cinema.
The term originally came from the Renaissance art movement, It refers to the dramatic effect experienced when using contrasting areas of light and dark in a visual piece.
This is what the lighting set up in the studio would look like.
This type of lighting balances high-contrast light and shade to give the appearance of depth, creating an enhanced or more dramatic effect. It also creates three-dimensionality on a two-dimensional plane, darkening the background and highlighting the subject in the foreground, drawing the viewer’s focus and attention.
To take these images I went to my friends Gym and took photos of her doing the routine.
First I flagged the images that I wanted to use. Then I started editing them on Lightroom. Dow below are the comparisons of the original picture, how I edited it and my final image.
My first idea is to go to my Friends gym in St Lawrence. I am going to take pictures of her doing tricks on the bars and floorwork to create a Varity of images. My plan is to take pictures at a multiple views to capture all angles of her body movements and make sure she is the focal point of the image. since the enviorment is closed off the lighting will most likely be artificial, This is not ideal as I would rather take pictures in natural lighting to shadow her body. My next plan is to take pictures of someone lifting weights. For these sets of images I would like to turn them monochrome to better highlight the structure of his body and the equipment that he is using.
Contextual – who, when, where etc…the story, background, impact
Analysis
My first impressions on this image is that It is eary. It has what looks like a person of importance presented with unwelcoming body language and facial expressions at the centre of the image. In the background There appears to be pillars with marks, scratches and writing on them due to old age, This makes the setting appear to be run down and aged. In the image there is a mixture of both natural and artificial light which helps give the image a depth of field and illuminates the mans facial structure while shadowing other areas such as his eye sockets and clothes. Arnold Newman has made it clear what tone and subject he was aiming for in this image as the figure is placing his hands in an position of greed and anger, which can be seen as almost intimidating to the audience.
Background of the image.
Newman asked to photograph former Nazi slave labour boss and convicted war criminal Alfried Krupp, at one of his factories. Newman originally declined, saying that he thought of him as the Devil. Krupp’s people found out that Newman was Jewish and tried to stop him from coming. The final portrait was Krupp lit both sides of his face. Newman asked Krupp to sit forward a little bit to which suddenly the shadows crossed his face in a dramatic an alarming way. Arnold stated that it made his hair absolutely stand on end. At this moment Arnold shot the image. The sinister look that was given to a time-served war criminal is one of Newman’s best known colour images.
“It turned out to be one of my best photographs,” Mr. Newman said in an interview. “It was my impression of a Nazi who managed to survive yet killed millions of people, not all were Jews. They were doctors, they were laborers that were offensive to the Nazis. And I consider that one of my more important pictures.”
An environmental portrait is a photographed portrait that captures subjects in their natural surroundings. It is one of the four main types of portraits Constructionist, Candid, Environmental, and Creative.
