Justin Quinnell Photo Moodboard

1. http://www.pinholephotography.org/
2. http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/photo-news/537535/pinhole-camera-man-lands-holewood-movie-role
3. http://iconolo.gy/archive/pinhole-photography/213
4. http://www.recombinanttechnologies.com/page_1240611803797.html
6. http://dustandlust.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/justin-quinnell.html
7. http://www.pinholephotography.org/gallery/bw/index.html

Project Moodboard; Dreams

Josephine

 Sarolta ban

Mina sarenac

Salvador Dali

Mina sarenac

Rene Magritte

Vladimir Kush

Patrick woodroffe

Rene magritte

           

Image Altering

This is my first pinhole picture that I altered using the 'bright contrast' option.

This is a reverse of my first pinhole picture. I made this in the darkroom by placing a blank piece of photo paper on top of my original print.










This is my second pinhole picture that I altered
using the 'bright contrast' option. 

This is the reverse of my second pinhole picture.
I made this in the darkroom by placing
a blank piece of photo paper on top of my original
print and exposing it to the light. 

 I made this image and the next three photos by scanning my second pinhole picture, and using Adobe Photoshop to add colour, using the 'photo filter' option. 

To make this image I scanned it and opened it up on Adobe photoshop and used the 'hue saturation' option which altered it, allowing it to look purple and white. 

To make this picture and the picture above it on the
right I used my scanned version of my first pinhole
picture and used the 'channel mixer' option.

Photograms; Man Ray and Moholy Nagy

What is a photogram?

A photogram is a picture made using objects, photographic paper, an enlarger and chemicals, inside the darkroom. The process of making a photogram begins by placing your object/s onto a piece of photographic paper in any position to create the image you intend to. The next step is to ensure you hahve the correct appeture and timing, and then turn on the light to expose it onto the objects and paper. You then place your image into teh developer; stop and fix to ensure your picture shows up and is secure on the paper. Overall, a photogram is a picture made by shining light onto objects on photographic paper, creating the shape of the objects. The colour (grey or white) of image depends on how dense and dark/light your objects are. If the object was a solid ring, it would turn out white. Whereas if the object was slightly see through, for example: bubble wrap, it would turn out grey with tones of white aswell.

Man Ray is a photographer who created this type of photography; photograms. When he first developed them he named them 'Rayographs'. He discovered this in 1921 in Paris whilst experimenting in the darkroom whilst developing images, and accidently left an object on a piece of paper whilst being exposed to the light.

A photogram made by Man Ray:

                                                                         

I believe that this picture was created using a role of film, aswell as a rubber band on the top left. The way that the film is coiled creates an amazing effect as it shows a contrast with the colours grey, black and white. 

Moholy Nagy is an artist who also experimented on photograms. He took on a large amount of design jobs and in 1927-1929 he became an editor of the art and photography department of a magazine made in Europe named International Revue. He was commonly known as one of the 'fathers' of light art as he worked on doing light sculptures and moving sculptures. As he was such a great artist, when he died of leukaemia in 1946, Budapest named a university after him in his honour; Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design.

A photogram made by Moholy Nagy:

This image by Moholy Nagy is very interesting in comparison to the picture above by Man Ray. This is due to the fact that Moholy has also used a role of film, but has captured the image differently. He has stretched out the role of film more which allows there to be more white and black rather than grey aswell. I also believe that he used a lower appeture to allow more light onto the object and paper, which helps the white colour show.

Roni Horn and Shutter Speed

What is a shutter speed?

A shutter speed (also known as exposure time) is the length of time the camera's shutter is open for. The amount of time that the shutter is open for has an impact on how the picture will turn out; if the shutter is open for short amount of time the picture will be very sharp, particularly if it's of a something moving. Whereas if the shutter is open for a long time it will come out blurry or just less sharp. The shutter works along with the appeture which determines the size of the hole that lets light in. The smaller the appeture, the sharper the image.

Roni Horn is a visual artist that uses a variety of shutter speeds. Here are some of her images:

For this picture she has used a slow shutter speed. This is clearly shown as the face is blurry. I think that the use of the shutter speed has created a great effect on the picture because it shows that she has interpreted many people's perception of clowns and used an effect to make it look scary.










This is my favourite picture done by Roni Horn. This is because she has captured the image so perfectly as you can clearly visualize the ripples and different levels of the water. She was able to do this by using a fast shutter speed.




These are images that have been created using different shutter speeds:

Photo by Rich Anderson

This image has been captured using a slow shutter speed. the slow shutter speed has allowed us to see all of the movement of the lights which make it look like an abstract image/effect.

Photo by Bresson Thomas

  

This image has been developed in the same way as the picture above; using a slow shutter speed creating an abstract effect. I preffer this one to the picture above because the straight lines of light are very constant and create a sense of movement as they blend together in the distance.

How to make a contact sheet

1. The first thing my partner and I did was cut the negatives into strips of six.
2. We then placed the strips onto the light box to ensure each strip looked as we intended it to. 
3. After that we placed each strip into a separate section in a 'neg bag'. 
4. Then we made a test strip. These are he steps we took to making the test strip: 
    A: Set Aperture to F:8
    B: Make sure no filters.
    C: Placed photo paper glossy side up.
    D: Placed negative glossy side up.
    E: Placed glass on top.
    F: Exposed to light in 1 sec intervals using black paper.
Official exposing time: 0.5 seconds.

Example of a contact sheet