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Eadweard Muybridge Eadweard Muybridge was an English Photographer born in the 19th century , important for his photographic studies of motion and picture projection. This is the photo that Muybridge is most famous for. The sequence of photos was for an experiment. The question was "When a horse gallops, does it ever become fully airborne?".  The way Muybridge set up his shoot was buy having 12 cameras along the track of Stanford's estate, when the horse ran passed, it triggered the camera to flash. He developed the photos on site and proved the question to be right.  If I were to recreate this photo I would take a series of photos of my dog running in a field. I would take a burst of photos as he runs and hopefully if I have the right shutter speed it should come out sharp and not blurry.  Once the photos have been taken I will edit them and hopefully it should turn out to be something similar to Muybridge's. Since that shoot he has experiment...

Justin Quinell Justin Quinell is a pinhole based photographer who is known for is odd camera  placements.Some of his most famous compositions is where he places the pinhole camera in his mouth. Here is one of his photographs. This image is very thought provoking as Iv'e never seen a photograph like it. The reason why this photograph works well is due to its super wide focal length. if I were to estimate, I would say its between 8-12 mm. This allows the light sensitive paper inside the box to capture the majority of Justin Quinell's teeth. and also the Dentist in the centre of the photo. The theme of this photo was well thought of too. the fact that it is in a dental practice is relevant due to the placement of the camera.  This is another style of photograms that Quinell produces. whats shown in the photo is basically a light trail of the sun passing through the sky. These are more commonly known as solar graphs. To make this a successful photo the pape...

Digital Finals These photos have all been taken at Canary wharf to resemble Joel Tjintjelaars series "looking up". to make these recreations as similar as possible i enhanced the vignetting and also increased contrast and exposure. All four photos were taken in raw format so that their is a lot more accessible to compile the photos.  This photo was taken of a block of flats up near south quay DLR  station. what I particularly  like most about this photo is that there is a lot of detail coming from the glass balcony. the reason for this is due to the fact that i shot this photo using a 50mm lens which is able to gather more detail.  This is one of the more symmetrical photos that I had taken. to take this photo I switched lenses to a 10-18mm so I could capture as much of the building as I can. I also incorporated the rule of thirds ratio so that the top horizontal line was inline with the top of the bui...

Motion Blur In the lesson today we learnt how to blur sections of a photo so that the image will show motion. In this case I used a photo that I had taken of my friend throwing an American football. The first part of the process was to duplicate the layer. Then I used the  blur tool which can be found underneath the filter icon.  The blur tool allowed me to blur sections of the image and also dictate the direction.  When the blurring was complete I erased the ball on the top layer so that it revealed the blurred version underneath. 

Photogram finals For my photogram finals I linked both images back to Brittany Wright's work where she takes photos of food from above. These were the results. This was the first photogram I made using polo mints. I created this by placing the polos over a sheet of glass in a line and then I slid the light sensitive paper underneath. The exposure for this photogram was 10 seconds at grade 3. I think that overall this is a very basic photogram however, it links back to Brittany Wright and it also has a part to play in my order project. This photogram is slightly different to the first, due to the fact that the sweets I used were wine gums.  I thought the image would look interesting as a photogram because the sweets are opaque. Looking at the photogram I'm really pleased how it's developed, because the light is travelling through the sweets and this is reflective in the image. The photogram was also exposed for 10 seconds at grade 3.

Pinhole Finals For my pinhole final pieces I have changed them from a negative to a positive in the darkroom manually.(not in Photoshop).  Both these photos also link to Joel Tjintjelaar's work as they have been taken pointing up at buildings trying to recreate Joel's series "looking up". This is the first pinhole I've done for my finals. on the day of this shoot the weather was quite gloomy and I therefore needed to expose the photographic paper for around 90 seconds. In order to expose the image for the correct amount of time I used my mobile phone stop watch to make sure I didn't over expose or under expose the paper. I also had to try and keep the box as still as possible because I was getting some blurry results. To keep the box still, I lent the box against the bench to get the angle I wanted and to keep it steady.  You can clearly see the sharp corner of the building on the right of the photo which I thi...

Film Photos in Sketchbook Over the weekend I have been experimenting with film and trying to take light trail exposures. My initial thought of light trails using film was that it wouldn't work. However, I did manage to get some good shots. Taking the photos was a lot of trial and error, as I wasn't able to take a test shot, as I wouldn't be able to see the photo until I developed it. I  overcame this by taking a test shot on my dslr and using the same settings on the film camera. This is one of the photos I've taken from my sketchbook to write up about. I think that the composition has been well thought of, as the brick wall on the left, the light trail and the metal railings all leads to the far left of the photo. This shows that I've incorporated leading lines. The photo was taken at F20 with an 8'' shutter speed. One thing that I could have improved, is to alter the shutter speed, lighty faster, so there was less time for the ...