Historical and Contemporary Photographers

Historical:

William Henry Fox Talbot was a British inventor and photography pioneer who invented the calotype process, a precursor to photographic processes of the 19th and 20th centuries. Fox Talbot went on to develop the three primary elements of photography: developing, fixing, and printing. I find Fox Talbots work to be both powerful and simple; it is the simplicity that draws me into his photographs it gives them a clean, bold, classic finish. Talbots photographs give photographers and artists today the ground on which to produce their own work. 

Irving Penn was an American photographer, specialising in fashion, portrait and still life photography. At one point Penn had taken some imagery relating with glass. The photographs I found to be the most inspirational were the photograph that use both still life (glasses, bottles) and a model. Those images show different ways of perceiving the model through different, translucent objects; showing a range of different sizes and angles in which to view the model.  

Contemporary:

Abelardo Morell is a photographer in which I have previously looked, although when given the project glass I found a few projects of Morell' that feature glass as a main subject. I found the way that Morell used light as a contributing factor in his photographs work entirely well with the main subject glass. 




Kelly Gardener's work with using glass as photograms was very inspirational as it gave me an insight as how light can travel through a translucent object in order to create a final image. I thought the that the fact Gardner used glasses with different patterns/textures/depth worked well as it gives the viewer an idea of how light from the darkroom can create interesting depth in an image.

Wen Zhang

Other Photographers:

Christopher Leedham

Laya Gerlock is a Portrait and Product photographer based in the Philippines. His passion is teaching and sharing his knowledge in Photograpy and has been doing this for 6 years.

Film Photography Research

Film photography:

35mm film has been in use for film cameras since the early 1900s, with the first twin-lens reflex and single-lens reflex cameras (TLR and SLR respectively) reaching the mainstream market around the 1920s and 1930s. Film generally has a greater dynamic range than digital, especially black and white film. Film also differs from digital in terms of resolution. Most 35mm films cannot compete against most modern digital cameras in terms of resolution. Film look a lot different than digital, the differences being, the richer, smoother finish compared to the almost plastic finish of a digital image.  

With film photography you tend think harder about what you're doing. Every frame can be assigned a physical cost, so you try a little harder to make each shot work. 

Digital Moodboards:

Reflection Digital Photoshoot

Digital Reflection Photoshoot:

Contact Prints:

With this photograph I tried to create an interesting image with the idea of reflection in mind. The reflective surface being the mirrors, although as the mirrors are at different angles it shows different unusual reflections; giving the final image an interesting, unconventional finish. 

This is a photograph I found fell under the category reflection not only to the reflective surface of the glass chess pieces but because of the reflective surface of the flooring, this gives subjects a distorted look making the image more eye-catching. 

Light Bulb

Light Bulb Shoot:
Contact Prints:

Breaking the rules

Breaking the rules in photography has become more common with contemporary uses, creating images that make you look twice, and think about the process on how the images were created. You can create this in photography through many things, a few examples being: Un-focusing your camera, placing a cover over your lens, using an old camera and remove the lens and make a pinhole or double expose the image.

 I found this photograph falls under the category "breaking the rules" as I believe it makes the viewer look twice. The way this image was taken is there are two bottles one clear the other coloured; I placed the coloured bottle behind the clear to give in the illusion that the bottle is almost inside the other.

This photograph is taken of two bottles, although neither are in focus I thought that this photograph falls into the category of "breaking the rules" as both bottles seem to float in front of the open book, neither on a solid surface (so it seems) 

 In this photograph I have experimented with the focus, although instead of the subject (the glass) being in focus the background is. To ensure that the subject says the subject I have placed so it sits almost in the centre, covering the majority of my shot.

With this photograph both subjects are not in focus, although I don't think that ruins the image; as I still think that it looks strong and bold, almost classic. The negative looks as though it has been restored giving it a historical finish.

Photographic Laboratories

ProAm:

ProAm offers the ability for its customers to print/develop film. All sizes of C41 film can be developed on formats such as: 35mm & 120 (6 x 4.5cm/ 6 x 6cm) Older negatives such as 110, 126, 127 can be processed also through being scanned then printed.

Developing prices:

CC imaging

At CC imaging they process by hand, using a precise dilution of chemicals specifically for your film. CC imaging offers for film, film developing, black and white prints, fibre printing, colour printing, lomography.

                                                                             

Developing Prices

Black and White process prices

Colour processes prices

Fibre process prices

Lomography Prices