Butterfly lighting is a technique where the light source is placed directly above at an angle and slightly in front of the subjects face, this then creates a butterfly-shaped shadow under the nose. Also called paramount lighting, it is often used to photograph some of the famous Hollywood stars as well as in fashion photography, making it commonly well known for defining the subjects cheek bones making the subject look thinner and eyes look bigger.

Butterfly lighting can be achieved by either using flash lights or continuous light, if continuous is can be natural or artificial, meaning using LEDs or strobe lights. To create the butterfly effect you use can use reflectors which reflect the light back, which creates the butterfly shadow.

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Final Virtual Gallery:

This is my final virtual gallery, which overall I feel looks pretty successful. I like how I have incorporated a range of the different lighting techniques we experimented with. I think my favourite lighting technique is the chiaroscuro because it shows a deep contrast between the light and the shadows, and gives a mood of mystery

in 1826/7, Nièpce succeeded in making the earliest surviving camera photograph. It represented a view from a window at Le Gras (his hometown in Burgundy, France), captured on a pewter plate coated in bitumen diluted in lavender oil. The exposure time was probably several days.

Photography was invented by Frenchman Nicéphore Niépce in 1822. Niépce developed a technique called heliography, which he used to create the world’s oldest surviving photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras (1827). Heliography was conceived in response to camera obscura theories dating back to ancient history.

What is photography and its origin?

The word “photography” literally means “drawing with light”.

When did photography first begin?

Photography was invented in 1822 when the first photograph was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (pronounced “nyeps”). Unfortunately, the first examples of Niépce’s work have been lost to history, but he still holds the title for the oldest surviving photograph, taken in 1826.

This is the first photo ever taken.

What is photography and its origin?

Photography was invented by Frenchman Nicéphore Niépce in 1822. The word “Photography” comes from the Greek, meaning to draw with light.

In 1826, Niépce succeeded in taking the first true camera photograph. He used a sheet of pewter coated with bitumen, which required an exposure time of at least 8 hours! The subject of this photograph hit close to home for Niépce; the view from his workroom in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France.

Niépce developed a technique called heliography, which he used to create the world’s oldest surviving photograph.

The origin of photography is significant because it created various aspects of human life. It showcases technological advancements, enables documentation and historical preservation, fosters artistic expression, facilitates communication and journalism, and has personal and social impact. Photography has transformed how we create, remember, communicate, and understand the world.

Photoshoot One:

My first plan is too take passport like photos, photos with no shadows, a plain face (no facial expressions, mouth closed), a very formal image which includes shoulders and clearly shows facial features.

Photoshoot Two:

Diamond Cameo, this will require taking yet again more plan boring images of the model, but I will need a left and right side profile, and many images of the model looking in different directions, in order to create my diamond cameo I will have too use photoshop.

Photoshoot Three:

For my third photoshoot idea I want to create multi-exposure photos, this will obviously have too be done in photoshop, but in order to create the photo i might want too take a photo of the model looking up and then one of the model looking down, this will make it easier to edit the image later on.

Headshot – A photograph of someone’s face, head and shoulders.

Developed from portraits, they find there origins, traditionally from passport photos, résumés for actors musicians etc.

This style of portrait helps to clearly define the subjects facial features as well as provide a clear basis for people to make assumptions on someone’s character, possibly based of appearance (like how they dress).

The classical origins, find themselves dating back to 1839, where photographer, Robert Cornelius was one of the first to experiment with the ideas of headshot portraits.

In 1854,  André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri  produced a more cost effective way of producing these headshots by cutting up full-sized plates into 4 separate small portraits. These photos soon became known as Carte-de-visite, translating to visiting cards.

These grew in popularity across both Europe and the US, where families of wealthy class got them to exercise their wealth. With some people such as queen Victoria getting one to flex her status.

In the 20th century, they soon developed into a secondary purpose of being used as promotional material.

(promotional photo of Katherine Hepburn in the 1940s)

The modern headshot is now used as an art form, used for exploring different ways of portraying the face. Some elements of the classical headshots can be found in Professional headshots, used for marketing purposes, someone’s influential status and image, such as a celebrity can be sold for their likeness.

Henry Mullins started working  230 Regent Street in London in the 1840s and moved to Jersey in July 1848, setting up a studio known as the Royal Saloon at 7 Royal Square. His speciality was Cartes de visite and the photographic archive of La Société contains a massive collection of these. After his death his collection of over 20,000 pictures was acquired in 1883 by Clarence Philip Ouless and formed part of his collection which was given to La Société in 2006. he had a collection of over 9,000 portraits of Jersey residents.

These images are only a small portion of the large amount of images he took, these images would then be placed into an album, presented as Carte De Visite:

Carte De Visite:

Henry Mullins specialised in Cartes de visite, it is presented widely in the photographic archive of La Société and the online archive contains 9600 images. The Carte De Visite is described as the first commercial photographic print produced using egg whites to bind the photographic chemicals to the paper and this is would be very rare to see now. This consisted of a small thin photograph mounted onto a thicker piece of card, however Mullins placed his work into an album.

Diamond Cameo:

This layout of final images is called a Diamond cameo because of diamond-like shape made by the placement of oval images. I personally like this layout form because it makes it interesting by showing all the angles of his face.

Chiaroscuro

Analysis: I took this picture and edited it with black and white to accompany the black backdrop. It creates a more dramatic but sombre effect.

Rembrandt

Analysis: For this picture, I filtered it with artistic 06. I liked the colour it created around the face, and still keeping the black background.

Butterfly

Analysis: Finally, with this picture I used the filter artistic 03. I liked the way it lightened up the face, but still kept the shadows in the necessary places.