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Camera less Photography  Camera less photography is an alternative to using a Dslr camera. Cameraless photographers such as Man Ray  Martha Madigan and Adam Fuss create their photos using enlargers. Man ray was one of the first people to create an image without using a camera. he called these "rayographs", Which then evolved into photograms. To create a photogram you place objects over light sensitive paper and then expose the paper for around 8 seconds. The downside to using photograms is that the photos will always be 2D and will be from a birds eye view. Martha Madigan American photographer Martha Madigan was born in Milwaukee in 1950. she is a very interesting photographer as she creates very surreal photograms with multiple exposures and objects you wouldn't usually use. some of the themes she has done in the past are life and death, nature and culture and the fleeting existence of the body. the reason why i  chose to research this photographer wa

shutter Speed what is Shutter Speed ?  The Shutter speed is how long your camera's sensor is exposed for. The way this works is by two shutters ( or curtains). One that goes up at the start and one that goes down at the end. Depending on how fast the shutters move will depend on how fast the photo was taken. For example if the shutters moved at 1/15. Then the photo will be a bit blurry and should probably need a tripod as longer shutter speeds pick up more movement. Slow shutters can be used for landscape and anything to do with light trails. whereas a fast shutter speed like 1/1250 will be a lot more sturdy and more crisp. This speed is used for action shots and fast moving images. The next two photos show the difference between a slow shutter and a fast shutter using water droplets. Both images were shot in manual mode which enables me to have full control of the camera. To show the differences fairly I have kept the same composition for both photos. All I've don

Pinhole Cameras Materials A shoe box Photographic paper tape Process A pinhole camera is a shoe box that has a tiny hole in the front made by a drawing pin. It has then got a flap over it to stop light getting in once the photo has been taken. You place photographic paper inside the shoe box to create the photo. To take a photo using this camera you need to find somewhere where you can rest the camera on. This is because you need the camera to be still as the light will be exposing the paper for around 10 seconds depending on how bright the area is. Once you have found the spot you can remove the flap covering the pinhole and let the light into the camera once you think that it has been long enough cover the hole up and take it to the darkroom to create the photo using the chemicals. After you have finished with the chemicals you can change the image from a negative to a positive by placing it on top of another piece of photographic paper. Then adding

Photograms Today we went into the darkroom to create some photograms using objects that we brought from home. Materials Photographic paper An enlarger Developer chemical Stop chemical Fix chemical Objects/Materials Processes To create the photogram we needed some photographic paper. Photographic paper is different to regular paper because it is light sensitive.  We then placed our photographic paper under the enlarger  (which is a huge light that exposes certain  parts of the paper for a short amount of time) After that we placed our objects onto the paper and used the enlarger for 6 seconds.  The object I used was my earphones. After the 6 seconds, we started to make the image appear using different chemicals, the paper was placed in 3 different trays. The first chemical that the paper goes into is called the developer. The developer makes the image visible and should be used for 2 minutes. The second chemical is called the stopper chemical which prevents the im