Masculinity:

Qualities or attributes regarded as characteristic of men or boys. Masculinity involves displaying attitudes and behaviours that signify and validate maleness, and involves being recognised in particular ways by other men and women.

What is healthy masculinity?

What Is Healthy Masculinity? Healthy or positive masculinity is the idea that men can be emotionally expressive, have female friends or mentors, and express their emotions without feeling emasculated.

What does toxic masculinity mean?

Toxic masculinity refers to the notion that some people’s idea of “manliness” perpetuates domination, homophobia, and aggression. Toxic masculinity involves cultural pressures for men to behave in a certain way. And it’s likely this affects all boys and men in some fashion.

What is gentle masculinity?

Gentle masculinity is supportive, caring, loving, gentle and kind. There is banter, yes, but it’s gentle banter. It’s supportive banter compared to that of “sour masculinity,” which is marked by aggressive behavior, harsh sexualized language, abusive and cold banter about women, and constant put-downs between boys.

FEMININITY:

Qualities or attributes regarded as characteristic of women or girls. It is both a means of ‘getting ahead’ as much as it can be a form of distraction. Being in the feminine means taking time as it comes and feeling into situations. It’s about trusting intuition and allowing time and space for life to unfold.

There are seven feminine archetypes that prevail in contemporary western society—the mother, the maiden, the queen, the huntress, the sage, the mystic, and the lover. The presence of these archetypes in our psyches accounts for the major differences among women.

What is very feminine behavior?

This may include being passive, naive, sexually inexperienced, soft, flirtatious, graceful, nurturing, and accepting.

What are the three types of femininity?

Type 1: Careerist Femininity. Type 2: Individualised Femininity. Type 3: Vocational Femininity.

Binary opposition

Binary opposition originated in Saussurean structuralist theory in Linquistics (scientific study of language) According to Ferdinand de Saussure, binary opposition is the system by which, in language and thought, two theoretical opposites are strictly defined and set off against one another. Using binary opposites can often be very helpful in generating ideas for a photographic project as it provides a framework – a set of boundaries to work within.

A binary opposition is very easy to identify as its the basics of opposites for example:

Henry Mullins Dimond Cameo

The diamond cameo is something Henry Mullins created using 4 photos of the same person but the person is facing different angles in each photo.

our separate portraits of the same subject are printed on a carte-de-visite. These are then printed onto each of the oval shapes of only their headshots and not their body.

Photos I’m using:

The final piece:

How I created it:

I added whatever photo I wanted to start with and then used the elliptical marquee tool to created the oval shape around the individual. I did this 4 times. I then ordered my photos into the front facing at the top, both side facing on the sides and then another random one at the bottom.

I think something I could have improved would be by adding a boarder around the white backgrounded photo.

Double/Multi-Exposure

Double/multi-exposure photos are an illusion created by layering images. This is usually done digitally by taking multiple images and then editing on apps such a photoshop. you can edit the level of opacity of the photos to make it more transparent to see the images that are layered underneath. There is also a way to create this effect without digital editing.

Here’s how your camera captures a double exposure in film cameras:

1. 1. Take your first photo. The camera shutter opens to expose the film to one image, then closes. The first image is generally a subject, often a portrait.
2. 2. Rewind the film and take your second photo. The camera shutter opens again to expose the film to a second image, then closes, shooting over the same frame again. The second image is generally a background, often a landscape or cityscape.
3. 3. Develop both images in one photo. The final image combines the two exposures into a single image where they’re both visible on top of one another.

My own digital attempt:

I copied the same image onto photoshop 4 time and layered the, on top of each other. I then adjusted the positioning of them by using size or just moving them slightly. From here, I edited the opacity and lowered it to create the transparent look. I did this one each photo except the background to keep a solid photo as the base.

JUXTAPOSITION:

Juxtaposition is a photography technique that consists of a contrast of separate photos. This can be created using a contrast of colour, people, places etc. Some juxtaposition techniques have also been used to create stories behind an image but contrasting it with the usual image against teh deeper meaning of the image.
Elliott Erwitt is a master when it comes to juxtaposition.

This edit was a fairly easy process. I began by deciding what I was going to juxtapose using the images and found 2 similar takes with different light colours used. I did not use photoshop for this edit, instead I edited them separately on Lightroom and then just transferred them onto a PowerPoint where I was able to align them next to each other for them to be able to go onto my blog as a single photo.

Henry Mullins was a photographer who was founded in the first few years of photography being originated. Photography came about in the year 1839, Henry Mullins started working at 230 Regent Street in London in the 1840s. He then moved to Jersey due to tax reasons in 1848 and carried on his career of photography. He set up his own photography studio known as the Royal Saloon, at 7 Royal Square. in the beginning, he was known to have worked with a Mr Millward but a year on from that he worked alone for the next 26 years in the same studio.

There was short period in the 1860s where Mullins worked in London but there is a large amount of photographs, which are held by the  La Société Jersiaise, that suggest there were plenty of people on the island willing to pay a good amount of money to have their photograph taken by Mullins.

Cartes de visite

Henry Mullins has a speciality called ‘Cartes de visite’ and the photographic archive of La Société has a big collection of these, which are produced in albumen, which was a thin paper photograph mounted on a thicker paper card. The size of a carte de visite is 54.0 × 89 mm normally mounted on a card sized 64 × 100 mm. On the online version of the archive there is 9600 images. this was usually done by a number of 16 photographs taken in one sitting.

Some of Henry Mullins’ photographs

Diamond Cameo

A Diamond Cameo is a process in which four separate portraits of the same subject are printed on a carte-de-visite. the four photos are usually taken from different angles of the subject. These are then printed onto each of the oval shapes of only their headshots and not their body.

1. Soft and Hard lighting

Hard lighting is a type of lighting in photography which is harsh and creates the effects of strong shadows in the image. It usually comes from a single, bright light which is smaller than the subject. When photographing objects, the dark lighting will also help to show the 3D-Appearance and will also further define the textures and details an object might have.

Soft lighting is a type of lighting in photography which is more diffused and creates softer shadows. Hard light has more contrast and is usually brighter than soft light, while soft light is usually more even. Soft light tends to wrap around the subject to create its subtle shadows . The use of soft lighting also increases the size of the photo as as the light rays travel in all directions as they move toward the subject. Soft lighting can also make colours pear richer and more realistic when it comes to the usual photography or cinematography.

My two favourite photos that demonstrate thus technique

Framing: Headshots

In photography, framing is often used to direct the viewer’s eye towards the subject of an image. 
for example, the technique of Rule Of Thirds is used to frame the subjects in your photo to make the image more visually captivating. The Rule of Thirds is the process of dividing an image into thirds, using two horizontal and two vertical lines

What can the rule of thirds be used to do?:

• Use composition techniques that are in line with what’s naturally pleasing to the eye
• Creatively use negative space
• Create conversation between the subject and background

in my attempt, my headshot is focussed on the right on the image and the 3 squares on the right are kept completely blank to draw attention only to the aspects in the middle and the right.

Focusing on the eyes

When focussing on the eyes in photography, photographers tend to do this is many different ways. Such as:

• Capturing the image up close
• Having the subject pose
• Adjusting the aperture 
• Lighting  

• The proximity of the photo allows the photographer to get an image up close to the subjects face. This will cause the subject to look directly at the camera with their eyes to create the interstellar stare. This will create a sharp quality within the eyes and most likely make them the main focus of the image.

• Posing with the eyes would be directed by the photographer for where they want the subject to be looking. By doing this is could enhance the lighting on the eyes when, for example, the subject is looking upwards rather then to the left.hands can also be used to focus the attention onto the eyes even when they are not looking directly at the camera

As an example, this photo shows the use of the hands posting upwards that lead the viewers gaze towards the eyes.

• By adjusting the aperture on your camera, it is another way of adjusting the detail of specific aspects. If you were to focus on the yes, you would adjust the aperture which would then slighting blur out the background of the image other than the eyes. This can be a very accurate and frustrating process as one slight movement could move the focus on the nose or the hair so to lower the chances of this happening to Paul d be smart to use a tripod if possible.

• Direct focus on the yes using lighting can easily brighten them and create the main focus. This can also be used by sunlight and not just artificial lighting. The lighting can cause shadows all over the image but the eyes will be well lit. This is a proven technique to create engaging portraits.

Expression

Pose