photography genres

This is an example of lanscape photography, you can tell its lanscape because its shot from a distance at a large area and very scenic area also because it shows the horizon.

This is an example of commercial and fashion photography, you can tell this because of the pose she's striking, it's eye catching and it draws you in also because it has the logo attached. It's also fashion because its selling a fashionable item of clothing.

Evaluation

Evaluation

     I found pin hole photography very interesting. It helped us to understand the development of photography from the beginning to modern photography such as digital photography. I found the process of making the camera helpful too as it gave us an insight into how a camera works inside although they are very very basic examples. We also got to use the dark room for the first time which was also interesting, I found it a little different to what you see in films and on television, it was a lot darker than I thought, although its called a dark room I didn’t imagine it would be pitch black, it took our eyes a while to adjust to the darkness. With my camera I found it gave me some good results once I had found the correct exposure time. The photo I’ve labelled as bikes was my favourite as it’s come out clear and you can tell quite clearly what the photo is of.

     Overall I found the pin hole process helpful in the understanding of basic photography as it shows photography in a very simple home made form and making the camera ourselves really helped me to understand how cameras work.

my pinhole photography



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learning curve negative

Learning curve positive

bikes attempt 1, negative

bikes attempt 1, positive

tree negative

tree positive



Research and development

     pinhole photography was originally first invented as far back as the 4th century bc, it was used by greeks such as Aristotle and Euclid, it was used through the slits of wicker baskets or the crossing of tree leaves. it moved on alot over the centurys and around 1600 Giambattista della Porta added the first lens to the pinhole camera. it wasn't until 1850 when a scottish scientist, sir David Brewster actually took the first photograph with a pinhole camera. Pinhole cameras are usually homemade by the photographer, such as Justin Quinnell who created one of his to fit in his mouth to take pinhole photography from the view of his mouth. 

     Pinhole photography has helped technology to evolve, now we have digital photography it is much cheaper and faster to create photos, this is because we no longer have to use the chemicals to develop the photos and with digital photography all you have to do is upload it onto a computer. Also the quality of photography has developed and evolved a lot, there is much more definition in the photography. Since pinhole photography there has been other forms of creating and producing photography such as Polaroid photography which is now extinct as the company went bust, this is because there is no longer a need for Polaroid cameras as there are digital cameras. Polaroid cameras are expensive to run because you need to purchase the photographic sheets of paper and you cannot review what you’ve taken a photo of, whereas with digital photography and digital cameras you can review your photos before printing therefore saving money.

     Since the evolution of technology and in particular photography it’s played a big part in the creation of video gaming and films etc. it’s mainly used for research, for example some destinations from the animated film up is taken from real life destinations in America, this is all part of the research process in film making, they would do this by going around capturing photos of interesting areas.

 

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                                      Justin Quinnell's                                                                 

Analyse

Analyse

     We did some research for Tim on pinhole photography, then compared the results from our pinhole photography to that of the ones we found while researching, while comparing I found that professional artists and photographers get very professional and clear images from there pinholes.

    As you can see from the example’s in the blog entry above Justin Quinnell has used colour where as our very basic home made pin hole cameras aren’t capable.

     You can see from comparing the two images there are vast differences in quality. The reason for this is because there was much more time, money and professionalism involved in Justin Quinnell’s piece.

     The idea for Justin’s shot, having it from inside the mouth is a really clever idea, the angle of the shot shows his top and bottom teeth and makes it really clear and easy to tell what the image is, where as mine struggles to portray where and what the image is of. Justin has used colour for his but this is to with the money and time he has spent on his pinhole camera whereas we only had one day to make our cameras and shoot our photos.

Process

Process

     We began our pinhole photography by first making the camera, we did this by getting a light tight container and painting the inside of the container black, we did this because black is the only colour that absorbs light therefore stopping it from reflecting and bouncing around. We then cut out a hole and replaced this missing section of container with tin foil, this was our lens, the outside of this had to be covered in gaffer tape to again make it light tight, also with the gaffer tape we created a lens cover to stop the light from hitting the lens when we were not getting a shot, the last thing we did in the process of making the camera was to put the pinhole in the lens, this was roughly 0.8mm.

      Our next task was to capture and develop our pinhole photography, we did this by loading our cameras with photographic paper on the opposite side of our pinhole then going to the destination of our shot and removing the lens cover for the required time, we work this out measuring the distance between our lens and the opposite side of our camera in mm then dividing it by 0.8mm (our pinhole size) mine was 78mm divided by 0.8mm= 97.5 this is also known as the f-stop, this meant the exposure to light outdoors was 30 seconds and indoor was 4 minutes, however this wasn’t always the correct time so we had to adjust if needed. After we shot our photos we took them to the dark room to be developed, we did this by placing our photo paper in different chemicals; first we placed it in developer for approximately 1 minute then stopper for roughly 10 seconds then fixer for another few minutes before finally putting it in water to rinse it then drying it.

     Once we had our pictures we needed to create a blog and place our pictures onto the blog, I did this by creating a Gmail account then creating my blog on blogger.com using my Gmail account. Before we put our pictures onto our blogs we needed to turn our negative photos into positive photos, we achieved this by scanning our photos onto Photoshop and importing and inverting our negatives then placing them on our blogs and reviewing and evaluating them.