Here these images are very bright and colourful compared to the rest, the sky is a shade of green that almost gives off a disastrous look almost as if a storm is coming. I made the sky looks more colourful so that the image itself would stand out. However I highlighted the area I wanted to make bright and simply copied the layer, I then proceeded to brighten the colour and made it look more green, I felt as though the green makes the photo looks really ready to explore The thought that our world is slowly getting destroyed with all the carbon being released and the plastic being thrown around creates this unpleasant image, the world is dying and no much is being done to save it.

All of the photos that I selected in big to present are the best images I took. Through out all the photos I took these were best one I could analyse and use in my work as they had bod colours and all represent a story whereas some of my other photos don’t have the right lighting or angle to use or don’t have the right story to tell. Most of my photos are pictures of boats but not really the big luxurious boats more like small boat that u would stay close to the haw with which tells us a lot, possibly the p[person who owns the boats like to do fishing close to the island or likes to have a small paddle around the island in their bot however it doesn’t necessarily tell us if they don’t have the money to buy as its not a factor we can judge and asses. The colour of each boat can tell us a story as it can show each personally identity.

Doing this photoshoot was quite successful as I got many photos of different places surrounding the harbour. For many of these photos I had zoomed in with the camera to get a specific area of the surroundings, Like with the pictures of the boats I had make sure that nothing else is in the background and only the boats were in focus. For many of these photos I had used Photoshop to add Ai effects and get rid of any distracting directs effecting the image. Firstly in the image with the two boats I asked AI to remove anything I the sea to make it look like there are only boats floating and nothing else around. To get the basic editing I levelled all the colours and made some of my photos in black and white as helped to stop the colours from distracting the main idea of the photo. I believe this photoshoot went really well as I was able to interact with some people along the way and understand why they do what they do for a living how it is impact in their lives. For example, I was able to see people who took care of all the lobsters and fish. I was also able to see all the boats that were left on the side. These boats were all different colours and can each represent different personalities and how people look like and the way they are portrayed.

Overall, I believe this photoshoot went well and I managed to capture quite a good bunch of photographs that portray the importance of the st Helier harbour and how its history ha impacted it. Most of the pictures I took of boats are quite small and show how in the past they didn’t really have really high tech boats and almost shows us ow people used to travel across the seas, and of Couse they have other boats with high tech and more protection but it does help us view the evolution of the boats and how each boat can help a person achieve different things.

Popular myths
It is a popular myth that the slave trade was invented by the
Europeans; the reality was that when the first Europeans
reached West Africa in the 15th century slavery was already
long established,

Popular myths
It is a popular myth that the slave trade was invented by the
Europeans; the reality was that when the first Europeans
reached West Africa in the 15th century slavery was already
long established.

Museums have a central role in creating a more equal, diverse and inclusive society. Through the objects that represent us, the stories we share and the historic places we look
after, we hold the collective memory of our community.

What was the involvement of Jersey mariners in the Canadian cod-fisheries and the Transatlantic carrying trade?

It has been more than 400 years since the first Islanders crossed the Atlantic in search of pastures new. They went to plunder the cod-rich seas of the American and Canadian coast.

A family pose in the Point St Peter shop: Charles Le Marquand seated between the two women while standing behind are Thomas Alexander Le Gros, John James Le Gros and his wife Edith Emily Le Gresley. All images supplied by MUSEE DE LA GASPESIE.

Which ports did Jersey ships sail to and trade with?

Jersey has been an island for approximately 8,000 years: therefore, apart from the last 60 years, the only way for people to come to or leave the island has been by sea. Over the centuries the way in which boats have been powered has changed – muscle power, wind power, steam power and now diesel power. The largest island is jersey, followed by Guernsey, Alderney, sark and a number of smaller islands, islets and rocky outcrops. The islands were separated from mainland Europe with rising sea levels in the Neolithic period

What type of goods did Jersey merchants exchange for cod-fish?

They traded molasses and rum for cod fish

Fishing:

Oyster Dredging became important and started in 1828 centring around the Chausey oyster beds, where the French also wished to fish. News of these beds brought 300 fishing boats from the south of England, Gorey pier was rebuilt to assist them and after ten years, the beds were shown to be over fished.

Manufactured goods:

Knitting in the Islands as a trade had early origins, the quality was so good that Queen  Elizabeth I wore Guernsey stockings. Large quantities of wool being imported to the Islands from Southampton by special licence, where a major cottage industry turned the product into desirable high value goods. Stocking were in high demand in France,240,000 pairs a year being exported there in the 1660s.

Entrepôt:

Being free ports, as the British Parliament had no right to levy taxes in the Islands and the Islands themselves not wishing to levy taxes on goods brought to and then exported again from the Islands, The Channel Islands could import goods from anyone who was not an enemy of Britain, free of British taxes. The local merchants would buy up and supply goods at favourable prices, especially goods taken by privateers. There were no restrictions on whom the goods were sold to, and no liability on the Islanders if the ship subsequently landed those goods without declaring them and paying taxes at their destination.

Cod and North America:

The Channel Island fishing industry took to the opportunities offered with the opening up of the Grand Banks Fisheries. Cod was valuable and from 1763 when Quebec was ceded to the British, colonies were founded by both Jersey and Guernsey in Newfoundland. The people in each colony undertook the fishing and drying, waiting for the company ship to arrive with trade goods they could exchange for the fish. Barrels of dried cod, 1,000-2,000  quintals a year, each weighing roughly 50 kg, being exported by ship to the Caribbean or western Europe. Sometimes there was a three-way trade with ships returning to the Channel Islands where the ship chandlers and merchants benefited.

Horticulture and agriculture:

In Guernsey the introduction of glasshouses resulted in a growth on eating grapes and then tomato production from Victorian days, when in the 1880s 10,000 tons were exported annually until the 1970s, with 60 million tomatoes exported each year in the 1960s to England.

Quarrying:

During the 19th century quarrying of granite for use in England became a valuable trade good from Guernsey, adding value by creating cobblestones for London streets, although after 1847 gravel was exported for macadamizing roads. In 1861 St Sampson’s harbour saw 142,866 tons of stone loaded in 737 ships, it became very crowded and required piers to be rebuilt and repaired, by 1913, annual tonnage had risen to 453,947

Links used:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_history_of_the_Channel_Islands

St Helier harbour hasn’t changed massively between the years, although there are some clear changes, the area has stayed homogeneous. Saint Helier Harbour is named after Helier (or Helerius), a 6th-century ascetic hermit from Belgium.

This picture, by a Mrs Slater, one of the earliest female photographers whose work in Jersey survives, was taken in 1860, or soon after, and shows the La Folie area of the original harbour, with the French Harbour in the foreground and the long, thin, North Quay lined with sailing vessels in the background.

This painting by John Shepherd dates to the 1870s or early 80s and shows clearly how close the top of the Old Harbour came to the original weighbridge, which was in front of the Royal Yacht Hotel

This picture was taken in about 1886-7 and shows the work under way on some initial widening of the North Quay behind the weighbridge. A new cargo shed has been constructed.

A rare photograph showing the Old Harbour infill from the other side, with the row of Commercial Buildings properties showing very few similarities to what survives in the 21st century

An aerial view of the harbour at high tide in 1934

1950, and nothing has changed

links:

https://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php/Pictorial_history_of_St_Helier_Harbour_from_1850_to_1973

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Helier_Harbour

The story of photography all begins from the year 1822 discovered by a Frenchman, named Nicéphore Niépce. He developed a technique called ‘heliography’ which was used to create the worlds oldest surviving photograph, view from the window at Le Gras in 1927. Heliography was conceived in response to camera obscura theories dating back to ancient history. The camera Obscura is known to be an image projection. It’s also Latin for ‘dark chamber’, it’s a dark phenomenon where rays of light passes through a small key hole onto a dark space to form an image, this results to the image being inverted/ upside down and reversed/ left to right. Camera Obsura could also be referred to as analogous constructions, as an image is being projected onto a dark room onto a translucent screen. Camera obscura with a lens in the opening has been around since the second half of the 16th century and had become very popular for drawing and paintings. The technology was further developed in the 19th century when camera obscura boxes where used to expose light-sensitive materials to the projected image. It’s meant to be a study of eclipses without the risk of damaging the eyes by looking directly into the sun. The camera obsura was able to provide the idea of tracing for drawing to produce highly accurate representations.

In 1826, Nicéphore Niépce first managed to capture a photograph with the camera but it took at least a couple of days to take exposure in the camera resulting for the photos to be very crude. Later Louis Daguerre went on to develop the daguerreotype process, known to be the first publicly announced and commercially visible photographic process. This process only took a few minutes of expire compared to the obscura camera. Daguerreotype was widely used during the 1840s and 1850s , « Daguerreotype » also référés to an image created through this process. The Daguerreotype was almost completely superseded by 1839 with new, less expensive processes, such as ambrotype, that yields none readily viewable images. There has been a revival of daguerreotypes since the late 29th century by a small number of photographers interested in making artistic use of early photographic processes.

To make the image, a daguerreotypist polished a sheet of silver-plated copper to a mirror finish; treated it with fumes that made its surface light-sensitive; exposed it in a camera for as long as was judged to be necessary, which could be as little as a few seconds for brightly sunlit subjects or much longer with less intense lighting; made the resulting latent image on it visible by fuming it with mercury vapor; removed its sensitivity to light by liquid chemical treatment; rinsed and dried it; and then sealed the easily marred result behind glass in a protective enclosure. The image is on a mirror-like silver surface and will appear either positive or negative ,depending on the angle at which it is viewed, how it is lit and whether a light or dark background is being reflected in the metal. The darkest areas of the image are simply bare silver; lighter areas have a microscopically fine light-scattering texture. The surface is very delicate, and even the lightest wiping can permanently scuff it. Some tarnish around the edges is normal.

Since the Renaissance  era, artists and inventors had searched for a mechanical method of capturing visual scenes. Using the camera obscura, artists would manually trace what they saw, or use the optical image as a basis for solving the problems of  perspective and parallax, and deciding colour values. A camera obscura optically reduces a real scene in  three dimensional space to a flat rendition in two dimensions. In the early 17th century, the Italian physician and chemist Angelo Sala wrote that powdered silver nitrate was blackened by the sun, but did not find any practical application of the phenomenon.

Niépce died suddenly in 1833, leaving his notes to Daguerre. More interested in silver-based processes than Niépce had been, Daguerre experimented with photographing camera images directly onto a mirror-like silver-surfaced plate that had been fumed with iodine Vapor, which reacted with the silver to form a coating of silver iodide. As with the bitumen process, the result appeared as a positive when it was suitably lit and viewed. Exposure times were still impractically long until Daguerre made the pivotal discovery that an invisibly slight or  “latent” image produced on such a plate by a much shorter exposure could be “developed” to full visibility by mercury fumes. This brought the required exposure time down to a few minutes under optimum conditions. A strong hot solution of common salt served to stabilise or fix  the image by removing the remaining silver iodide. On 7 January 1839, this first complete practical photographic process was announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, and the news quickly spread. At first, all details of the process were withheld and specimens were shown only at Daguerre’s studio, under his close supervision, to Academy members and other distinguished guests. Arrangements were made for the French government to buy the rights in exchange for pensions for Niépce’s son and Daguerre and to present the invention to the world (with the exception of Great Britain, where an agent for Daguerre patented it) as a free gift. Complete instructions were made public on 19 August 1839. Known as the da, it was the most common commercial process until the late 1850s when it was superseded by the  collodion process.

The daguerreotype proved popular in response to the demand for  portraiture that emerged from the middle classes during the  Industrial Revolution. This demand, which could not be met in volume and in cost by oil painting, added to the push for the development of photography.

Picture stories are meant to show a story through pictures and not actually the words therefore the writing shouldn’t really be a source to rely on, the naked eye should be attracted to the picture, figure out which photo is the main source of information.

here are some samplers of picture stories, these examples looks very differed from one another as they all have different stories behind them, they all represent a different meaning. Each one has a different colour that can symbolise different things such as emotions, a countries flag colours and what colour makes there chosen photos to stand out. I really like the black and white photos with a brown and yellow background, it has a strong powerful meaning and really helps to engage the viewers eyes onto those photos. I don’t really like the stories that have many different colours and shapes in the background as it distracts the viewers attention away from the photos, it make the photo look less important. However some could view it as the colours attract the naked eye towards the photos, makes them look noticeable especially if they are in black and white as there isn’t any other colours to direct the eye towards.

I went t St Malo for the 14th of July which is a special holiday in France, Bastille Day, national holiday in France and its overseas departments and territories, marking the anniversary of the fall on July 14, 1789, of the Bastille, in Paris. They celebrate with music, food and fire works and as I was in France during this time I thought it would be cool to add the experience to my work as I has previously been to St Malo for a school trip where we took some candid images of the French and tried to see how different there cultures are from Jersey. These photos are very different than the ones I captured on the school trip as I was observing people in general whereas when I went in July I was observing the culture more. I did try to get some candid images. In St Malo there are always people in the middle of the streets and they tend to do shows, play music or sing to entertain people but also to get some money, they tend to hold some meaningful stories as to why they are on the streets and why they need money. This helps to make St Malo very festive as there is always music playing, it’s really lively. The shops and restaurants are open much later than in jersey and it helps to give a different perspective. Of course all the extra images I took we from inside the walls which is represented as a small community whereas France in general is very big and isn’t like this. As it was summer when I went to France therefore, the weather was nice and there were aesthetic sunsets I was able to capture. I also decided to include the pictures of the fireworks as it can be quite hard to capture good quality fireworks. Some of them turned out quite good and though it would help people get the picture of how important the 14 July is.

here I went on lightroom classic to create a poster of the photographs I had taken in st Malo, I made all the photos black and white and the title coloured to make the words stand out, to make it clear that theses photos were made in St Malo. I do like how this turned out as I put similar images together on the left hand side of the poster and then added some other images of people I had captured in st Malo, this is a way of showing how different cultures are to each other and why each culture is important. The French have a different style to people in jersey and it helps to add a bit of perspective to the image and make it less boring as we are used to the “jersey style” therefore I really enjoyed going to st Malo and taking theses photos and being able to add them onto to a posture to really show how different they are to us. I made the title French as I felt that it would match the vibe more than having a basic English title, I also added the colours of the French flag in the background of the title, this adds character to my poster and makes the poster look less boring as all the photos are in black and white and express no colour or feelings, I do wish that if I were to do this again I would out a tint of different colours onto the photos to express different feelings and make the poster more interesting and interactive for people to figure out the meaning of the colours, I would want the colours to represent different emotions. The picture in the middle is the main picture as it allows the eye to focus on the main image but also as the lady in the image is walking towards the left it makes us want to look to the left to look at the 3 similar pictures I took of an ice cream shop. Overall I like the outcome of my poster.

Overall, going to St Malo was quite successful as when going round St Malo I was able to see a big difference from jersey, the people were dressed differently, and it was lively. The was music playing all over the place and there were loads of food stands. As St Malo was so different from Jersey, I found it quite easy to take pictures as everything was quite unusual to me, my aim was to take some landscape photos around St Malo as the architecture is different, the culture in general creates good images. When taking pictures of people, it wool have been best to take pictures of them not knowing but a lot of the time they would look up at my camera and feel quite disturbed. I do feel that as the cultures are so different, people are doing different things, for example I saw a man sat outside the shops drinking his coffee, he seemed to be a worker at the shop he was sat at, which is something you wouldn’t see in Jersey, I also saw homeless people all over the place sat outside shops with dogs around them, this is definitely something I wouldn’t see in jersey and helps to have a different perspective on life. I do like how most of my images turned out and when I edited them, they looked a lot better as I had levelled the lighting. However, when taking my images I should have had different viewpoints to show them that viewpoints matter a lot when taking pictures. One thing I wish I had done would have been going into random shops or shops that attracted my attention and asked the people in the shop to pose with their shop, although this wouldn’t have been a candid image, it would have been very different from other people’s work as we all followed each other and went to the same places, which made out photos very similar. However, when editing my images, I did try and find new ideas to make them more unique and different from everyone else. The only negative thing about going with a group to take pictures is most of us would tend to get the same images or similar images. It’s harder to be more original and to put your ideas out there without other people doing the same. Overall, my images did turn out to be good but it would have been better if I had come out of my comfort zone and interacted with some of the people, possibly get some information to find out where the busiest or most popular shop is and get some images of how busy the shop gets. I would definitely like to go to St Malo again and open my ideas to more original work and more personal to me as i do have a connection to France due to family and always visiting St Malo. 

Here I used AI to try and add some more details to my photos, I highlighted the spot I wanted to add more and typed in what I thought would look the best, for example I had a blank space to work with therefore I just added some different posters and a plant to fill the space.

Here, I used AI to add more details to my photo, this allowed me to add people, different objects and change the perspective of the photo. For example, the original photo is an alley way that has graffiti and no people, when I used AI I was able to add children to make it look like they were drawing the graffiti, I also added cans of spray paint on the side to make it look more believable and also adds more colour and details to my photograph. In the back of the photograph I added a person in the back to make the picture more full.

Here I did the same thing as the photo above, i added people and also changed some of the people in the background to make the photo look different, I tried to change some small details such as the bag on the lady sat on the bench. I also added a dog which I don’t really like but kept in to show the differences in the original photo and the edited photo.

Here, I added a different effect to the colour, I selected the area I wanted to change and pressed (CTRL U) this allowed me to add a brighter colour or a more faint colour. I wanted to make my photo to stand out therefore made the colours bright and bold, I kept selecting different areas in the photo to see what looked right and what looked wrong. I really like how this photo turned out as the photo looks really vivid.

For this experiment I tried to make one person stand out as you can see the green person is more bold than the other people. Here I had to duplicate the photo and then move one of the photos either to right or left.

These photos were taken in st Malo, and the aim of this photoshoot was to get a perspective of what French people look like on a busy day, what they get up too, it also shows us how differently they are dressed. Most of the time you wouldn’t see anyone in Jersey or England wearing this type of style as it is quite European. However, it also gives us an insight of what st Malo looks like in general and how different it can look to where we live and what we see on a regular day. There were flags all around the towns which is something we could see in jersey, but they are places differently and represent different things, but in jersey we do have some string lights around the avenue which lights around the places. 

The aim of these photos are very different as some of them have many people scattered around the photo and some tend to have less or no people, I really like have some of these photos turned out, for some of the photos I used different angles to see if I could get a difference in perspective an how different the photo would look to the rest, we have a hip angle which would make the photo look lower, I also tried to put my camera further u to try and get a birds eye view perspective which didn’t turn out too well as I couldn’t really see what I was taking but it was fun to try and experiment with and see what different views people tend to see on a daily whether they were higher up looking out a window and just walking through the town. 

These photos were taken in France, st Malo. The aim of this photoshoot was to take candid photos of strangers roaming the streets, it was to captivate what st Malo rally looked like without making it look staged. These pictures are very different to what we would see in our everyday life in Jersey, as we don’t have access to everything. Here we were changing the shutter speed lower and higher when cars and people were walking and some photos turned out better than others, for this photoshoot we tried to get a close up of people to see what they were doing, some of these photos were taken of only buildings with no people in the surroundings. Both those photos give a very different effect and create a sense of humanity, how the world is seen. I turned some of my photos into black and white to show that I have included some of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s ideas and his decisive moment. Henri has a theory of the decisive moment which meant that every picture he took had to be perfectly positioned and timed. Henri would always search for the perfect people to take a picture of, as they would most likely be walking or moving slightly making it challenging, therefore Henri would have to change the shutter speed to capture the perfect photograph. All of these photos are candid and not staged which helps to get a perspective of the real world around us, although these photos don’t define the whole world as there is war around us but there are still peaceful places which need to be kept and preserved. 

Overall, going to St Malo was quite successful as when going round St Malo I was able to see a big difference from jersey, the people were dressed differently and it was really lively. The was music playing all over the place and there were loads of food stands. As St Malo was so different from jersey I found it quite easy to take pictures as everything was quite unusual to me, my aim was to take some landscape photos around St Malo as the architecture is different, the culture in general creates good images. When taking pictures of people, it wool have been best to take pictures of them not knowing but a lot of the time they would look up at my camera and feel quite disturbed. I do feel that as the cultures are so different, people are doing different things, for example I saw a man sat outside the shops drinking his coffee, he seemed to be a worker at the shop he was sat at, which is something you wouldn’t see in Jersey, I also saw homeless people all over the place sat outside shops with dogs around them, this is definitely something I wouldn’t see in jersey and helps to have a different perspective on life. I do like how most of my images turned out and when I edited them they looked a lot better as I had levelled the lighting. However when taking my images I should have had different view points to show the that view points matter a lot when taking pictures.

One thing I wish I had done would have been going into random shops or shops that attracted my attention and asked the people in the shop to pose with their shop, although this wouldn’t have been a candid image, it would have been very different from other peoples work as we all followed each other and went to the same places, which made out photos very similar. However, when editing my images, I did try and find new ideas to make them more unique and different from everyone else.