Darkroom printing, Timeline and History

1.       Load film into negative carrier

2.       Focus

3.       Determine exposure time

4.       Expose print onto Fiber or RC paper

5.       Developer (developing the image)

6.       Stop bath (stops the development, so the print doesn’t go darker)

7.       Fix (removes silver from the print, makes the print archival so it doesn’t fade)

8.       Holding tray (prints wait in water until they are ready)

  Ansel Adams
an american photographer and environmentalist. His black and white photographs of the American West have been reproduced on many calendars, posters and books. He developed the Zone System as a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the right contrast on the final prints. His photographs were full of clarity and depth. Adams used large-format cameras.

1946

I’ve chosen this image because I think it’s very interesting ad it gives a good impression of movement. Ansel Adams used the slow shutter speed to make the water look like it's flowing and moving. It is a quite dark photo but because of that, water looks like it's glowing in the dark and is breaking the darkness, especially when it touches the ground at the end. It probably took a long time to capture this kind of movement but in the end it was worth it. If I was Ansel Adams  would make the background look a little bit lighter so you would be able to see all the details.








1950
I like this photo because it's very clear and you can see all the details. The shadows on the stones are amazing and because of them this photo does not look flat. Ansel Adams captured very beautiful stones at the right time because all the shades and shadows would disappear or cover all the stones if it was taken at the different time of the day. Ansel Adams knew what he was doing and what he wanted to capture and that's what makes this photo so beautiful.









1938
I think it is a beautiful picture. The contrast between black trees and white snow is very big. The sky is white too so it all looks very interesting and magical. The only three things that I don't really like about this photo are the three black parts of the roof on the top. I think it catches your attention when you should be focused on the trees.





Henri Cartier-Bresson

A French photographer (father of photojournalism). He was the best at Candid photography and one of the first people to use 35 mm film. His street photography and life reportage style were iconic. 


Paris, 1954
I like this picture because I think it shows the real life in a comic way. The photographer used a shallow depth of field so the main thing that everyone will focus their eyes on is the boy holding the bottles. The other good thing about this photo is that the boy was not posing, he was just walking with a smile on his face. The only thing I would change about it is framing. I would show the boy's feet too.













1932
I think it's a very interesting photograph. The framing is amazing and it shows all the children in an alternative way. It's one of the most poplar photos and there's a reason why. The picture is quite old but it's better than many modern photos. I wouldn't change anything about it.

1933
I think this picture is great in many ways. Again, the framing is good because we can see through a massive hole that all the kids are playing and having fun. It's a massive contrast between a tragedy and happiness, kids who have nothing can still be happy, even if the only thing they can play with is dirt. I wouldn't change anything about it.

My Flip books

Task 3 Flip books

Flip Book 

Ideas

A flip book or flick book it is a series of pictures or photos that vary gradually from one page to another. When you turn the pages really fast it looks like a video or an animation.

To create a good flip book you will need around 50 photos and they have to be taken in less than a second.

Idea #1
I will take photos of cars going past me. I will take about 100 photos by using a multiple photos option on my camera.

Idea #2
I will photograph a person dancing and jumping in the air.

Idea #3
I will photograph someone's hand drawing something on a piece of paper.

How to create a flip book

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e1GKG-Gmjk

Darkroom research

Darkroom is a room which allows the processing of  light sensitive photographic materials like photographic film and photographic paper. Darkrooms have been used since 19th century and they are very useful and even though nowadays there are different and easier ways of developing photos, people still use darkrooms.



Photographic printing is the process of producing a final image on paper for viewing, using chemically sensitized paper. 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 LightJet printer. Alternatively, the negative or transparency may be placed on the top of the paper and directly exposed, creating a contact print. Photographs are more commonly printed on plain paper, for example by a colour printer, but this is not considered "photographic printing".

Unit 35 editing

Unit 5 Task 1a - research

                                                 'Looking for love' (Tom Wood, 1985)
It's a contemporary image which I've found using the books in the library. It shows movement in many ways. The photographer used flash so people on the photo are not blurry but the background is. You can't see the people moving but you can see the emotions and you can imagine what would happen next.
It's a single image. The techniques used create a very good image, showing the movement but in a different way.
If a photographer used multiple images/long exposure that photo could look a little bit better but it would loose its identity.
The photographer probably used a digital camera and the image is very colourful.


                               
                                                   Terence Chang, San Francisco
It's a contemporary image which I've found using internet.
This image was taken using long exposure and that makes it look so good and interesting. This image was taken using a digital camera and colour. You can see the movement and the way the planes fly and the city at night.

                               

It's a historical image which I've found using internet.
It's an long exposure image and it's black and white.
It was created many years ago and it looks good because it gives a very big impression of movement People are almost too blurry to tell if it's a big crowd or just few people.

Unit 35 Task 1b

 
 

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ISO: 100

Shutter speed: 2

Aperture: f3.2

To take this photo I had to shake my camera and turn it upside down. I wasn't shaking my camera fast, I was trying to do it steady and use a circle motion to create that effect. I like it because it gives the impression of spinning around a person or an object. 

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ISO: 100

Shutter speed: 4

Aperture: f3.6

To capture the movement I asked Amy to shake her head really fast. I've kept the camera still by putting it on the stairs. I like this image because it's different to the other one and it shows different type of movement. 

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ISO: 100

Shutter speed: 4

Aperture: f8

To photograph it I asked Rachel to stay in the same place but wave so it would look like only the hands are moving and the rest would stay still. I don't like this photo because it looks like her whole body is moving and the image is almost too blurry. You can still see the motion but it's not a good photo.

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ISO:100

Shutter speed: 6

Aperture: f3.6

To take this photo I've asked people who were sat on the stairs not to move. I was sat opposite them and I was shaking my camera to the left and to the right. It looks like they are about to fall down and that's why I like that photo. It creates the impression of movement even though the two people on the photo were not moving.

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ISO:100

Shutter speed: 4

Aperture: f3.2

I've asked Rachel to dance very fast because I was trying to capture the movement of the whole body. I kept my camera still. I like this photo because you can't see her face or arms and that shows how fast she was dancing. I like it because it's different to the other photos but it still shows the motion.

unit 3 cubism and futurism covers

pre task unit 3

task 3 part 2 unit 3

Unit 3 Task 2

Cubism and Futurism Ideas

Cubism

• a person (whole body or just face). I have to take few photos of different parts of someone's face or body and then put them together so they look like a one, messy photo.
• a photo of a situation (you can't see the movements). For example a visit to a dentist. You can see that something is happening but nothing's blurry. I can take photos of different parts of the room and people and then put them together as one.
• I can photograph someone's face from different angles and zoom in and out. Then put the photos together to create a cubist image.

Futurism

• a person playing golf (a golf club will be blurry). I have to photograph a person hitting a ball because the movements are going to be easy to see.
• a person running (wearing sports clothes), A person has to run quite fast. On the photo you will be able to see the movement of a whole body.
• a dog jumping in the air or wiggling its tail. To take a photo I can use one or a few dogs and someone else can make them jump up so I can see the movement. I can take a photo of a happy dog and its tail so the only thing that will be blurry will be the tail. The rest of the dog will look normal unless the dog decides to run around too.

Location:

• my house
• my boyfriend's house
• a long path near my house
• golf club

Lighting:

• artificial 
• natural

Props/Items:

• dogs
• my boyfriend
• my sister
• a golf club
• a camera

Timing:

setting up - 10 mins

photographing - 30 mins

travelling - 2-20 mins

cost - £0-4

Photo shoot plan

1. I have to get a bus to my boyfriend's house, set up the camera and other important stuff. I have to let the dogs out of his house and let them run around the garden for a while (that will make them happy). I have to get ready to take some photos while they are still enjoying running around the garden. They are supposed to look happy and the movement have to be visible. I will probably take around 20-25 photos and pick the right one.
2. I have to go outside my house and do the same setting up as last time. Then I have to ask my sister to run in front of the camera and don't stop. It will create a blurry image. She has to run really fast.
3. For this, me and my boyfriend will stay inside my house. He will stand near the light bulb. I photograph him about ten times from different angles and different parts of his face.
4. Me and my boyfriend will have to go to the nearest golf club. He will swing a club really fast and it will be blurry.

Unit 3 task 4a

Typography is the art and a technique of arranging type to make it more appealing to people. It includes using typefaces, point size, line length, line-spacing (leading), letter spacing (tracking) and kernng.



This book cover is very simple but interesting at the same time. Instead of a photo, there is just a blue background, white title of the book in the middle of the page and other details in blue at the top and the bottom.
We can see a white shape which looks like a young girl. She is falling and it doesn't look like she is going to land anywhere. You can't see her face or any other details. I think that we can't see her face expressions on purpose so we can't tell if she's scared or happy. They have used it because they don't want us to see the emotions because we could then guess what it is about.
Book cover designer used an eye catching technique. The words 'The girl who fell from the sky' are above the falling girl so when you are reading it, you can almost feel like you are falling together with a girl.



This book cover is also very simple and interesting as well as a little bit mysterious. It's quite colourful and eye catching. When you look at it you can feel lost because you don't know what to look at first.I think there are many interesting details about it.
We can see huge letters saying 'let's get lost Adi Alsaid'. They are big and the two different colours have been used to give the idea that the book is not sad or boring. The background is a map which says 'love, hope and loss' on every step of the journey so you kind of know what it's all about.
I really like this book cover because it's simple but very eye catching and interesting.

 
This book cover is very, very simple and empty. The use of typography on this book cover is not  complicated or interesting but the idea of using something simple can also make sense because some people may look for something different than everything else.
The image is the best part about the whole thing because it works well with the title and it's also kind of ironic and sarcastic. The title says 'privacy' but a person looking at you through the hole, shows that there's really no privacy in here.

Unit 3 Task 1 Cubism

These images inspired me through their use of colours, contrast and composition. They are 10 images and they are all very similar. The only thing that changes is the angle. It is very inspiring and looking at this composition of the images makes you think about every single one of them.

These photos caught my attention because they work well together and they look very different to normal, average photos. Every single one is very eye catching and works well as an individual image as well as a part of the bigger picture. They also caught my attention because some of them are really bright and some of them are dark and they don't stand out as much as the other ones. It creates a good balance.

This image as a whole mood board I've created makes me feel good and proud because it shows that you can put different images together on one page and they can still look good or even better than as individual images.

The definition of the light within the images showed that they were all taken at the same time and the light didn't change but you can still see that there's a small difference between some of the images. Some of them are darker than the other ones and you can see more shadows. Also the purse looks brighter on some of the photos and you can see that artificial lighting was used because you can see a reflection of the light bulb.

Using Photoshop I've changed the size of the images and I've put them all onto one page. I used these techniques because they would've been to big to put them all together. It also made them look better together.

Using this software was difficult because I didn't know how to bring some of the images to the front or to the back. It made it quite difficult to put them all together so they would look like one big image. I dont know much about Photoshop yet and I'm still a bit scared to try to explore it on my own.

The images show that I used different types of the Depth of Field, not just one. It makes it more interesting and every image is different not just because of the angle but because of this too.

The lighting within the image was created mainly by artificial light but I took the photos near the window so I would say there was some of the natural light involved too.

The rule of thirds was used to enhance the concept of good composition and the right angles. They make the images more pleasant to look at.

evaluation Unit 2

Throughout this project I aimed to capture the essence of the small details in Saltaire and to capture few things but trying to find a different colour every time. I've found many things that I wanted to capture but in  the end, I dont think I have enough photos. Because of it I had to borrow some photos from a person I've been working with. Also I didnt have my own camera so it was a lot harder to complete all the tasks and keep my work in one place.

This image inspired me through its use of focus, combination of colours of the background and the flower. It makes the image look really bright and fresh .
This photograph caught my attention because it was very well exposed and the composition is great. It would catch everyone's attention because it is very eye catching.
This image made me feel summery because it gives the impression of very nice weather and lots of sun. This image is very bright and that's probably why it makes you feel warm when you look at it.
The definition of the light within the image showed that it was a really nice day and the sun was shining very bright. The light was shining from the right side and because of it there are some shadows and the image looks darker on the left hand side.
I used few techniques in Photoshop to bring out the brightness and the shadows of the image. Also I used few tools to make it look more pink and less dull.
Using this software was difficult because I'm not used to it and I don't know how to use it properly yet. I don't know how to find and use many options that could improve my work. In my opinion Photoshop is quite complicated and hard to use.
I used shallow Depth of Field. It shows it by being focused on the flower not the background .

This image inspired me through its use of bold and sharp edges and lines . It looks like a really strong image.
This photograph caught my attention becasue it was very bright, just as my first photo. It's eye catching and the composition is very good.
The definition of the light within the image showed that the lighting was very good that day. There are not many shadows but the background is a bit darker than the rest of the image.
The lighting within the image was created by the natural light only. The sun and the shadows created a very nice composition of light. The rule of thirds was used to enhance the concept of good composition.

unit 2

You have to open a new document and then click on the crop tool.

Change the size to 6 cm width and 6 cm height and change the resolution to 300 pixels/inch.

Then you have to create a new window and drag all your images on to that file.

When you edit your images and put them all in one place, you can create a mood board containing RGB
and CMYK + pictures edited in Photoshop using duo tone.