Web Work Three:: Part A:: Elizabeth Eastlake

This particular picture of Elizabeth was shot by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson

in 1847 whiles she was still Elizabeth Rigby.

Elizabeth was not a photographer she was a writer about photographer. She was often photographed by Hill and Adamson.


::Elizabeth (Rigby) Eastlake::
• Born as Elizabeth Rigby on November 17, 1809
• British Author, art critic and historian
• First woman to write on a regular basis for Quarterly Review
• Known for writing and having a part in the London art world
• Husband was Sir Charles Eastlake and directed the National Art Gallery in London
• Born in Norwich by Edward and Anne Rigby
• At a young age Elizabeth enjoyed drawing and began studying art in her early twenties
• Elizabeth had a private education : Learned French and Italian
• 1827 she had an illness which pushed her to convalesce in Germany and Switzerland.
• Started a publication translating Passavant’s essay which was about English art.
• 1835 Elizabeth took trip number 2 to Germany which led her to Goethe another article.
• She then visited her married sister and went on to publish her articles and her book A Residence on the Shores of the Baltic in 1841
• Elizabeth had a literary career which led her to an intellectual social circle with people like Lord Jeffery, John Murray and David Octavius Hill
• They photographed her in twenty early calotypes Robert Adamson Assisted
• 1857 Elizabeth published an article that showed the relationship between art and photography
• At 40 Elizabeth married Sir Charles Eastlake
• She travel a lot through the 1850’s and 60’s while doing that they toured European countries to get new acquisitions for the gallery
• Was a huge part in popularizing German art history in England
• By being a Critic and translator
• Husband past away in 1865
• Wrote Five Great Painters in 1883 (Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian, Raphael and Durer)
• Elizabeth basically made the way for females in journalism
• She died in 1893

http://www.photokaboom.com/photography/pdfs/Lady_Eastlake.pdf

Short bio

WebWork2: Part A

Calotype:
*Calotype is an early photographic process introduced by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1841
*The process to get a print out image takes about a half hour
~First, you take your best quality drawing and brush it with a solution of silver nitrate. Then you dry the paper, and immerse it in a solution of potassium iodide which forms a light sensitive layer of silver iodide. Next, you treat the surface with a mixture of silver nitrate solution and gallic acid to act as an accelerator. The exposure in the camera, (which must be held in a dark slide) produces an invisible image. You then develop the image by washing it in a mix of silver nitrate and gallic acid, fix it with hypo, and thoroughly wash it.
-You can improve the transparency of your photo with waxing
-A positive can be made by repeating the original process
*There are some negatives and positives to the calotype process compared to it’s competitor Daguerreotype
~Positives:
-You can get unlimited number of prints from one negative
-Retouching is capable on both the negative and the print
-A calotype is easier to examine, and is less delicate
-Can produce warmer tones
~Negatives:
-the materials are less sensitive to light so it takes a longer exposure time
-takes two stages, since you have to make the negative and the positive print
-tends to fade with time
*The negative/positive process used in Calotype is still used today in the standard photographic process
*the Calotype process was used by photographers such as Maxime Du Camp, Henri Le Secq, and Edward Baldus

WEB WORK 3

John K. Hillers

I chose to research more about John Hillers because once I saw his images; I knew I would be interested in more. A little about my background is that I was very close with my grandmother Elaine. She basically raised me. She was very into Native American history, artwork, anything to do with Native Americans. Because she loved them, so did I. She left me all of her decorations that she had around her house when she passed. So long story short, that is why I was excited to look into Hillers more and see more of his images.

I found that Hillers explored much of the Indian territories such as California, the southeast and southwest. He eventually recorded their way of life through photographs. He worked as a government photographer and gained great knowledge working for agencies.

I could write more about Hillers and his photography but I feel his images explain more then writing about his life. Here are a few that caught my eye.

Link to more images by John K. Hillers.

Had to post these from H.H.Bennett.

I just couldn't help myself - i had to post these.

This is a picture of Bennett's Son - Stop action photography - (first ever?) Amazing.

John Whipple

John Adams Whipple was born in 1822 and died in 1891. Whipple was the first photographer in the United States to invent the chemicals used for daguerreotypes, which is a photographic process. He established night photography and won prizes for his photos of the moon and stars, and later the sun. Here are some of his outstanding photos:

Whipple was born in Grafton Massachusetts. In the 1840's he was a known daguerreotype portraitist in Boston. His studio was the Whipple and Black studio.

Whipple photographed buildings as well as his portraits.

Here is a link to more information about John Whipple:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams_Whipple

Keith Carter is a southern photographer that I have been looking at recently and he has some really neat photgraphs that tell a story and are amazing.

Here is a web site for his photopraphy:
http://www.keithcarterphotographs.com/images-recent.html

This is a video of Keith Carter and he is talking about his photography and his methods of photography.

Web Work 1

Part A:

Etienne-Gaspard Robert

Etienne-Gaspard Robert was born in 1763 in the city of Liege, Belgium. He studied at Leuven and became a physic

s professor, specializing in optics. An avid painter, he moved to Paris in the 1790s so that he could pursue his career in art. While there, he made a living as a painter and draughtsman while attending lectures in natural science at the College de France and lectures by Jacques Charles. Throughout the 1790s and the early 19^th century, Robert researched various areas of physics and gave public demonstrations about galvanism (the induction of electrical current from a chemical reaction) and optics. In 1793 Robert attended a magic lantern show by Paul de Philipsthal. After seeing this show, Robert realised the potential of what would later become “phantasmagoria.” Robert enjoyed reading the works of 17^th century scholar Althanasius Kircher, and was especially fascinated by the magic lantern, an early form of the slide projector. Robert invented his own version of the magic lantern with multiple improvements, including: adjustable lenses and a moveable carriage system. These allowed the operator of the device to changed the size of the projected image. Robert also found out how to project multiple images at once using more than one glass slider. The image displayed could then have a rather ghostly effect in a smoky atmosphere. After much wo

rk and some additional refinements, he received a patent for what became known as the Fantoscope. Robert then used this new invention in his own phantasmagoria shows, involving actors and ventriloquists alongside of the Fantoscope’s projections. Using projections onto larges pieces of wax-coated gauze, smoke, mirrors, and his own painting skills,

Robert was able to make “ghosts” appear. His first show was on January 23, 1798 and he continued making it more elaborate. His shows were eventually performed around the world in Russia, Spain, and the United States.

I think that Robert's invention is a great example of early photography. Robert saw the potential of image projections as a form of art. Robert's invention, along with others of the time, probably had a profound influence on drawing people's attention to the potential to capture images and project them for viewing.

Here is a link to the Wikipedia article about Etienne-Gaspard Robert.

Part B:

Here is a link to an excellent article and a Picture History : Alexander Gardner website with many pictures taken by Alexander Gardner. Alexander Gardner took some of the best Civil War pictures, many of which are used to illustrate Civil War history books. His pictures are a great reminder of how terrible the Civil War was. By taking photographs so early on in photography's history, Gardner provided valuable information about the Civil War that no one can get by just reading about it. His pictures give a message that mere words cannot express.

MSDS Sheets

MSDS SHEETS

It is a law that every manufacture MUST put out a MSDS or Material Safety Data Sheet for all products used. School's are expected to keep all these forms on file. The forms should always be somewhere where they have easy access. A great place to have the MSDS sheets would be on the wall in the photo lab. Material Safety Data Sheets for all chemical products, for all items, like film developer, and equipment, contain country specific regulatory information. If you were to get developer or any other chemical in your eye it would be a good idea to grab a sheet on the way out to the hospital.

Click to watch how to fill out a MSDS sheet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPoFtEBbjWI

MSDS

These are some of the health and safety concerns with using the six following chemcials:

1. Sprint's Standard Film Developer: Some of the syptoms to the exposure include.

• Mild irritation to the skin and eye.
• May cause sensitization to the skin.
• Breathing in vapors or mist may cause a irritation to the mocus membrane of the nose, or the throat,respiratory sysem, and/or mild headaches or nausea.
• If the chemical is ingested, it could lead to kidney damage and/or be toxic to the embryo and can also cause life threatening asthma.

Here are some first aid measures that one can do.

• If the chemical exposes to the skin, the skin should be washed with soap for several minutes. If the skin irritation keeps persisting then the individual should seek help from a specialist.
• If the individual is having any kind of breathing problems,such as respiratory irritation or anything else the individual should move into a fresh air area. If it's still hard to breath, the individual should seek medical help as soon as possible.
• If the chemical gets into the eye, the eye should be rinsed for several minutes. If the still persists irritation, then the individual should seek midical help.
• If the chemical is accidently ingested, then it is advised to drink three to four glasses of water. Seek midical help to see if it is best to vommit or evacuation fropm the stomatch is best.
  

2. Some of the health and safety concerns from using sprint's Archive Fix Remover:

• The chemical may cause mild irriation to the skin and/or be absorbed through the skin. And can also cause some skin sensitization.
• Can cause mild irritation to the eye
• Can cause kidney damage and/or may be toxic to the stomatch. Last, is it can cause life threatening to asthma.

Here are some first aid measures that one can do:

• If the chemical gets into a contact with the skin; it is highly adviced to wash the skin with soap and water for several minutes. If the irritation keeps persisting, then it's best to seek medical help.
• For inhailation recovery, the individual should move into a fresh air area. If individual is not braeathing, then start mouth-to-mouth artificial resp. or use mask resp. Seek medical right away if the individual is still having further complications.
• if the chemical gets into the eye, the individual should flush the eye for several minutes. Seek midical attesntion if the irritation keeps persisting.
• If the chemical is ingested to the stomatch, the individual should drink 3 to 4 cups of water. The individual should not vommit the liquid. But seek medical help to see if it should be evacuated from the stomatch or vomited.

3. Some of the health and safety conerns with using Sprint's Quicker Silver:

• Some of the symptoms of this chemical exposure include burns to the skin and may cause sinsitization or depigmentation.
• Cuases burns to the eye
• Inhailing vapors or mist may cause irritation to the respitory tract, throat,and may cause headache or nausea.
• Swallowing can cuase severe pain,cramps,nausea,vomiting,liver or kidney damage and also a life threatening asthma.

Here are some first aid measures that one can do:

• Wash large amount of water where area is affected for about 15 min. Remove clothng that is contaminated. Seek medical help as soon as possible.
• If individual is having difficulties breathing, then that indivdual should move to an area where there is fresh air.If indivdual is not breathing at all give mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration or use a bag -mask respiration. If victim is still having trouble breathing then seek medical help immediately.
• Immediately rinse large amount of water for at least 15 minutes. If a physician is not present then wash for additional of fifteen minutes.
• If the chemical is swallowed, then the victim should drink 3 to 4 cups of water. Seek medical attention to see if it's best to vomit or evacuate the product from the stomatch.

4. some of the health and safety concerns with using Sprint's Block Stop Bath:

• This chemical may cause some irritation to the area of the skin where it has been contaminated in.
• Causes eye irritation
• May be harmful if swallowed
• May cause respiratory tract irritation, soreness in the throat and nose.

Here are some first aid measures that one can do

• Wash affected area with plenty of water and soap for several mintues. If irritation keeps persisting then seek medical attention as soon as possible.
• Remove from area to a fresh air area if inhalation becomes difficult. If the victim is not breathing then give him/her a artificial respiration or use a bag mask resp. treatment. Seek medical help if breathing becomes difficult. Delayed pulmonary edema may occur so patient should be kepted under observation .
• If swallowed, the patient should drink 3-4 cups of water. The victim should also seek medical help to see if victim should evacuate the liquid from the stomatch or vommit. It is not advised to give anything in the mouth to an unconcious victm.

5. These are some of the health and safety concerns with using Sprint's Record Speed Fixer:

• Prolong and repeated contact to this chemical may cause irritation, redness cracking,and dermatitis to the skin. Contact may cause sensititation.
• Vapors may irritate the respirtory tract and breathing in acetic acidmay cause asthma.
• May irritate or cause redness to the eye.
• May also cause digestive tract irritation.

Here are some First aid measures a victim can do.

• Wash area where it was affected with plenty of water and soap for several minutes. Seek medical attention if irritation keeps persisting.
• Remove from area if inhalation becomes difficult. Seek medical attention right away if breathing becomes difficult still after that.
• Rinse eyes with plenty of water for several minutes. Seek medical attention if irritation keeps persisting.
• Drink 3 to 4 cups of water if swallowed, but do not vommit. Seek medical attention to see if evacuation from the stomatch or vommiting is best.

6. Here are some of the health and safety concerns with using Sprint's Archive Fixer Remover:

• May cause mild irritation to the eye
• Can cause kidney damage and may be toxic to the embryo or be teratogenic if ingested. It can also cause life threatening asthma.
• Breathing in vapors may irritate the mocous membrane of nose, throat, respirtory tract and may cause headache's light headed. dizznessand nasua.
• May cause mild irritation to the skin. May also be absorbed through the skin and cause skin sensitation.

Here are some first aid measures that one can do.

• Wash the affected area with plenty of water and soapfor several minutes. Seek medical help if irritation keeps persisting.
• Remove from area if inhalation becomes difficult. If victim ids not breathing then clear air way and start moouth-to-mouth artificial respiration or use mask respirator. Get immidiate medical help if victim becomes worse.
• Rinse eyes for a long period of time. Seek medical help if irritation keeps persisting
• Drink 3 to 4 glasses of water if swallowed. Get medical attention to see whether vommiting or evacuation from the stomatch is best. Do not give anything in the mouth to an unconcious victim.

Camera Obscura

In response to Joku's post about the camera obscura, i decided to set one up here are some pictures. enjoy.

Hey Everyone, your blog posts are so awesome...

...they make me want to slap my mama.

Seriously, I just spent an hour looking through your blog posts (see how I spend my friday nights?) and I can't believe how great they are. Some of you are finding really exciting resources, and I can't wait to show some of them in class.

I want to offer up a few thoughts about the blog posts that might be helpful...

• It's really hard to keep up with all of the posts. Keep them coming.
• The blog posts aren't formal writing - they aren't small essays, and I am certainly not grading on punctuation or spelling or grammar. They can be informal, they can be personal and they can even be in the first person. I guess I am as interested in your reflections on the material you found as I am in the information you are posting. Write in sentence fragments. Write in bullet points. Write in all lower case letters. Write in 733t-5p3ack. Just write your own material.
• To that end, it is really irritating when it is obvious that someone has copied and pasted material from another site, usually wikipedia. There are a couple of give-aways - when your type-face changes in mid-post, when you write with words that I don't hear you use in conversation, when your post contains most of the same language as a post from earlier in the day and when I can copy and paste a group of words into google and find the site you were looking at, I know that you weren't using your own words. Really, I am much more interested in hearing what you have to say than in hearing what wikipedia had to say - figure out how to summarize without copying, and then reflect on what you found. Why is it interesting? Why is it boring? Do you think I am a jerk for making you look this stuff up? Are you really glad you went out and looked at some of this stuff? Your grade doesn't improve because you sound erudite.
• A couple of posts that I think demonstrate what I am talking about in terms of an effective summary, in the writer's own words, that seem more like reflection thatn "Control-C/Control-P", please copy and paste the urls into a browser and have a look:
• http://rctc-photo-1.blogspot.com/2011/01/photographers.html
  
• http://rctc-photo-1.blogspot.com/2011/01/camera-lucinda-optics-reality.html
  
• It is an incredible pleasure to find the youtube videos and links to other sites that you are finding.
• I also really appreciate that some of you are going out of your way to comment on other people's posts. That kind of generous spirit keeps an interesting conversation going. Thanks to those of you who are reading and commenting on posts that aren't your own.

Web Work 2

Part A

Examples of modern camera obscura and a diagram about how it is done, the one on the right is The Cheshire Cat, and on the left is "View of Times Square in a Hotel Room" by Abelardo Morrell, on the bottom is a basic diagram of camera obscura

Camera Obscura
 A very basic camera obscura is a device that produces an image of some of its surroundings onto a screen.
 It is used in drawing and entertainment, and its invention led to photography
 It is a box with a hole in one side, and light, bounces off a scene outside, and then passes through this hole and hits a surface inside the box , where the image is reproduced, upside down, but with color
 This idea wasn’t exactly new, because observations of this type of thing happening in daily life had been observed by the likes of Aristotle (300BC)
 The idea continued to be developed over many centuries by various inventers such as Anthemius of Tralles (6th century) who kind of developed the Hagia Sophia, and Roger Bacon (13th century) who realized it could be used for solar eclipses, and they continued to be refined and improved over hundreds of years.
 People would trace the image that was projected onto the screen, and this happened in camera obscuras that were the size of a room; technically not photography this was a start. Eventually the idea of film was incorporated into the camera obscura
 The Camera Obscura was eventually modeled into the camera like devises, and is credited with making the first photographs
 The Camera Obscura is still a style of photography used today because of the interesting images it produces
 There have even been cameras, such as the hagia Sophia, that have been created with the intention of making camera obscura style photos

http://www.abelardomorell.net/photography/recent_01/recent_06.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura
http://briancarnold.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/camera-obscura/

Part B

Camera Obscura is how photography started, it began as a way of trying to simply capture images as photography, and turned into a modern way of doing photography. Artist have done many different things with this basic technique; it has turned into:

Pinhole photography
(about)
http://photo.net/pinhole/pinhole

(and pinhole images)
http://www.lightweaversphoto.com/fine_art/pinhole/index.html

and become more advanced overall:

http://www.abelardomorell.net/

This video explains how Camera Obscura works:

Édouard Baldus

I researched the work of Èdouward Baldus and found it extremely interesting. A majority of his work is of landscapes and architecture. Initially I was under the impression that taking pictures of buildings was one of the most boring and easy things to do because they don't move and they're already works of art on their own but I was wrong. Framing an image to fully complement and contain the beauty of a building is quite the task. Not only does he nail the composition but the lighting of the photographs are magnificent. Repeating shapes a prevalent in his work and he has several nationally acclaimed photographs.

The photograph on the right struck me because not only does it have multiple repeating shapes but it ironically resembles a strip of film, which I thought was pretty cool. He also does a lot of work with columns on buildings which displays magnificent repeating lines and shadows.

PART B

I friend showed me this video and it really does a good job showing how effective the "lensbaby" lenses are, it gives digital photos a more raw film look and allows for more in camera affects and not post production

The Making of POWER HOUSE from See In A New Way on Vimeo.

I find Mathew Brady's work to be very cool. Photographed celebrities and documented the civil war. He is also credited with being the father of photojournalism. He had taken photos of 18 of the 19 presidents from John Adams to William McKinley. The reason why he missed one of them is because the 9th president died in office before Brady started his photo collection. He also made portraits of many of the union officers in the civil war such as Ulysses S. Grant and George Custer.

Invention of Photography
History of Talbot




I have really been looking at equine or horse photography lately as that is where my heart fits into the photography world I really enjoy shooting horses because of their majestic and powerful look captured in a photography. They are absolutely stunning and always a blast to photography especially when they are freely moving or doing their own thing. To me its most natural and appealing.

Horse photography

There is not a lot about her except for her main site as she's not world renown, but I think her website is very informational.

Steve Bloom I love his work especially the Rural Africal file and image number two I am not able to post it, or I don't know how to without saving it. Anyway I love how their is one main camel in focus and a eye appealing blur surrounding it the movement is very eye catching.

Michael Sieve I love my connection with this artist because I have been able to meet him first hand, its been a few years but I truly feel blessed. He is right here from Minnesota! I also love to shoot wildlife and he has many gorgeous pieces art.

Part A :: William Henry Fox Talbot

William Henry Fox Talbot
• Was a British inventor and then opened up into the photography world
• Born February 11, 1800 Died September 17, 1877
• Invented Calotype process
• Largely took part in the development of photography as an artistic medium
• 1840’s work on photo-mechanical repro made way for the creation of the photoglyphic engraving process
• Known as a part of the development of commercial photography in Britain
• Usually is known by the name Henry instead of William
• Only child of William Davenport Talbot and Lady Elisabeth Fox Strangwaays
• He was educated at Rottingdean: at Harrow School and Trinity College in Cambridge
• Cambrige he was awarded Porson Prize In Classics in 1820
• 1821 Graduated as twelfth wrangler
• 1822-1872 communicated papers to the Royal Society mainly in mathematics
• Optical researches lead to his connection with photography
• “Some Experiments on Coloured Flame” was one of his articles in the Edinburgh Journal of Science in 1826 and in 1827 “Monochromatic Light”
• Then “Chemical Changes of Colur” in the Philosophical Magazine
• His invention of the calotype process began in 1834
• 1841 was when Henry first announced his discovery of the calotype or the talbotype process
• 1841 he also licensed Henry Collen the first Caloypist Professional
• 1842 a photographic discovery was shown in his The Pencil of Nature which was from 1844
• With the Pencil of Nature he won the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society
• Henry was also extremely active in Politics as a moderate Reformer
• Member of Parliament for chippenhame from 1823 to 1835 retired in 1840
• Devoted a lot of time to archaeology during his scientific researches
• One of the first decipherers of Cuneiform which were writings of Nineveh
• Wrote English Etymologies in 1846

I was really interested in the stereoscope topic during our class on Wednesday So….. I thought I’d do a bit more research on that topic and see what I could come up with. Well I found the technical stuff, of course, but more importantly I found some pretty cool dual image photographs, some information on who first invented them and some neat information about a photographer who used them a lot. So Enjoy!

A bit of History on Stereoscopy


Stereoscopy (also called stereoscopic or 3-D imaging) First invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone, is the creation of images to enhance the illusion of depth (3D). This process is done by the photographer taking two slightly offset images. The 2-D offset images are then placed into the Steroscope and when viewed the image is in 3-D.

Three strategies have been used to accomplish this:
1) Have the viewer wear eyeglasses to combine separate images from two offset sources.
2) Have the viewer wear eyeglasses to filter offset images from a single source separated to each eye.
3) Have the light source split the images directionally into the viewer's eyes (no glasses required).

Human vision uses cues to determine relative depths, a few of these are:
*Eyeball focus
*Occlusion of one object by another
*Linear perspective (convergence of parallel edges)
*Vertical position (objects higher in the scene generally tend to be perceived as further away)
*Change in size of textured pattern detail

I could write a novel on the subject but this is a great site that covers the topic.

www.stereoscopy.com/library/holmes-stereoscope-stereograph.html

Interesting bits of info.:

Inventor of the dual image photo:

A.J. Riddle was invented the dual picture - an invention by which two pictures can be taken on the same negative, this type of picture is used in stereoscopy. Mr. Riddle never had the desire to place a paten on this form of photography. ( did he not see what he had and the potential for wealth or did he just not care?)

H.H. Bennett : The Visual Historian Who Made Wisconsin Dells ( Take some time to google "Leaping the Chasm at Stand Rock" This is an amazing picture Bennett took of his Son - The pioneering picture in stop-action photography) Truely amazing.






Henry Hamilton Bennett (1843-1908) was a visual historian. He was pioneer of technology, composition and he created an wonderful legacy for the Wisconsin Dells area. His stereoscopic views of the Dells and of the Wisconsin River attracted visitors from across the country.



Known as a Pioneering and Inventive Photojournalist
H.H. Bennett started his life as a photographer after an injury sustained in the Civil War permanently crippled his right hand.
Bennett took his first stereographic landscape images of the Wisconsin River dells in 1868. Capturaing the wooded landscape on film. He was one of the first photojournalists, using photographs to tell a story.
H.H. Bennett is viewed as one of the ten best landscape photographers of the 19th century. He developed his love of landscape photography because, in his words, "It is easier to pose nature and less trouble to please.” ( I love that quote - so true)

Here are just a few examples of H.H. Bennetts dual images.

Coon-Nu-Gah (First Boy) and Big Bear Description: Stereoview of Coon-Nu-Gah (First Boy) and Big Bear, two Ho-Chunk men sitting on the ground. The man on the left is holding a gun.

Turk's Head Rock Formation Description: Stereoview of a rock formation known as Turk's Head high above Devil's Lake. Bluffs are on the far shoreline.




Raftsman's Series No. 1417: Shipping an Oar. A Heavy One Description: Stereograph of raftsmen shipping an oar.



FYI: you can visit the H.H. Bennett Studio & History Center, it is located in Wiconsin Dells. Almost all of Bennett’s landscape photography was devoted to creating stereoscopic views. By 1872, Bennett offered over 200 different stereo views of scenic Wisconsin. These included landscapes of the Dells, Devil’s Lake, and the rock formations in Adams and Juneau Counties.


http://www.http//hhbennettstudio.wisconsinhistory.org/

Web Work #3: Combination Printing

Combination Printing:

The photo paper during the time of the combination printing was not sensitive to red but very sensitive to blue. So with that being said when a photo was taken of the sky there was little to no detail. Hippolyte Bavard was the first one to think of combining two or more photos in to one image (combination printing). Being that there was a long time for the exposure to happen would cause the subject/object to be completely exposed but the sky would be lacking the detail that the photo needed. When the photo was processed, the image with the subject/object would be exposed and the sky would be white. So what Hippolyte would do is take the subject/object from one image and then the sky from another image and merge them into one. When doing this you have to make sure that the lighting from the sky photo and the lighting form the subject photo matched. If the issue comes up to where your sky lighting doesn't match your subject/object photo you sometimes are able to flip the sky photo around and match it up with the subject photo. William Lake Price and Oscar Rejlander are famous for using this process of combination printing. Oscar Rejlander managed to combine thirty-two images in to one single photo called Two Ways of Life (shown below).

After this process was founded there was a big controversy with in the photographic community about the combination printing. Photographs were known as truth and that the camera never lied, but once the combination printing started and multiple images could be merged in to one image, shattered every ones beliefs that the camera never lied. This process was the start for another artistic process called Photo montage. Photo montage is a smilier type of process but instead of it looking real it looks fake. Or so i think.

If you would like to create you own photo using the combination printing process click here for the steps.

Web Work #2: Early Photography

Daguerre was born in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d Oise, France. He apprenticed in architecture, theatre design, and panoramic painting with Pierre Prevost, the first French panorama painter. Exceeding ly adept at his skill for theatrical illusion, he became a celebrated designer for the theater and later came to invent the Diorama, which opened in Paris in July 1822.
In 1822 Joseph Nicephore Niepce produced the world's first permanent photograph (known as a Heilograph). Daguerre partnered with Niepce three years later, beginning a four year cooperation. Niepce dies suddenly in 1833. The main reason for the partnership, as far as Daguerre was concerned, might have been connected to his already famous dioramas. Niepce was a printer and his process was based on a faster way to produce printing plates. (The resultant plate produced an exact reproduction of the scene. The image was laterally reversed, as images in mirrors are, unless a second mirror was used during exposure to flip the image. The image could only be viewed at an angle and needed protection from air and fingerprints so was encased in a glass-fronted box.) Daguerre perhaps thought that the process developed by Niepce could help speed up his diorama creation.

Daguerre announced the latest perfection of the Dauerreotypr, after years of experimentation, in 1839, with the French Academy of Sciences announcing the process on January 7 of that year. Daguerre's patent was acquired by the French Government, and, on August 19, 1839, the French Government announced the inventionwas a gift "Free to the World."
Daguerre and Niepce's son obtained a pension from the Government in exchange for freely sharing the details of the process. Daguerre died in Bry-sur-Marne, (7 mi) from Paris. A monument marks his grave there.

To view more photos and information visit http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dagu/hd_dagu.htm#slideshow1.

Billy the Kid's Famous Photo

Billy the Kid's Famous Photo

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Timothy O'Sullivan: WebWork #2

Out of the long list of things to choose from I decided to go with Timothy O'Sullivan simply because the name sounded important. Timothy was born in New York in 1804's, and inspired by Matthew Brady, another name that was on our list. He worked in Washington at a studio as an apprentice for Alexander Gardner. When the Civil War started there was a large amount of men that wanted there photos taken in uniform before going in to front-line. July 1861 Matthew Brady went to front-line and witnessed the Bull Run the first big part of the war. When he was there he was almost caught by the enemy. When he returned back home is when he decided that he was going to start doing Civil War photography, and sent out Timothy O'Sullivan and seventeen other photographers. All eighteen men had there own portable dark rooms with them at all times so they were able to process the photos right away. When Timothy was gone is when he was able to capture his Harvest of Death, which consisted of dead bodies laying all over the place at Gettysburg. He also Captured the Dead Boy at Fredericksburg.

Matthew Brady was the one that was taking credit for these photos from all eighteen photographers that he was paying. Timothy finally had enough of it and left Matthew and started up his own photography business. Between 1871 and 1874 he was in Panama and did a series of photographic serves of the united states. In 1880 he was recognized as the chief photographer of the United States Treasury. Shortly after in 1882 Timothy passed away from tuberculosis in Staten Island.

Yosemite

Yosemite has been used by photographers for decades and one of the most famous and one of my favorite of these photographers is Ansel Adams. Born in 1902 Adams grew up with a love of nature and photographed nature for much of his life. However adams did not always have the financial means to fund his photography "Recognition, however, did not alleviate Adams's financial pressures. In a letter dated 6 August 1935 he wrote Weston, "I have been busy, but broke. Can't seem to climb over the financial fence." Adams was compelled to spend much of his time as a commercial photographer. Clients ran the gamut, including the Yosemite concessionaire, the National Park Service, Kodak, Zeiss, IBM, AT&T, a small women's college, a dried fruit company, and Life, Fortune, and Arizona Highways magazines — in short, everything from portraits to catalogues to Coloramas" http://www.anseladams.com/anseladams_biography_s/51.html''

early photography

TINTYPES
Tintype, properly known as ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a sheet of iron metal that is blackened by painting, lacquering, or enamelling and is used as a support for a collodion photographic emulsion, which is a light sensitive silver mixture.
The technical details of it is when a photographic negative image on a film or a plate is very underexposed, it appears as a positive when viewed against a dark background.
Tintypes had one of the longest periods of popularity of any early photograph type, lasting from 1850-1930. This process was first described by Adolphe-Alexandre Martin in France in 1853 and patented in the U.S. on Feb. 19, 1856 by Hamilton Smith.
The three main advantages of the tin type were threefold: 1. very durable, 2. inexpensive, and 3. it was the first truly instant photograph.

Henry Peach Robinson

Born on July 9^th, 1830, Henry Peach Robinson would become known as a pictorialist photographer who combines multiple negatives to form one photo in a technique known as photomontage (which would actually be invented by Oscar Gustave Rejilander a year prior to Robinson’s start in this new art), in which Robinson would be considered to be a pioneer. After thirteen years of education, Robinson became an apprentice to Richard Jones, a Ludlow printer and bookseller. While studying art, Robinson continued to be a bookseller by trade, moving from bookstore to bookstore until 1852 when he exhibited an oil painting and began taking photographs.

In 1855 he opened a studio in Leamington Spa, out of which he would sell portraits. A year later, he co-founded the Birmingham Photographic Society with Rejilander. Three years after that, he would marry Selina Grieves, the daughter of Ludlow chemist John Edward Grieves. Robinson would, in 1864, be forced by failing health due to darkroom chemical exposure at the age of thirty-four, to give up his studio, preferring to employ the “paste pot and scissors” method of combining photos to the method employed by Rejilander. He kept up with the theoretical side of photography as he moved to London, penning the 1868 essay Pictorial Effect in Photography, Being Hints on Composition, and Chiaroscuro for Photographers, an influential essay in the field. He was also a strong advocate for the recognization of photography as an art form, joining the Royal Photographic Society as Vice President in 1870.

Robinson was a member of the RPS until 1890 when internal disputes within the society led him to resign and join the Linked Ring society, which served as a rival to the RPS. He was active with Linked Ring until 1900, and by that time, the RPS elected him to honorary membership as well. An early supporter of the Photographic Convention of the United Kingdom, Robinson regularly debated in favor of photography’s status as an art form. In 1891, he was asked to serve as President of the PCUK, but he declined. He died and was subsequently buried in Tunbridge Wells in 1901.

web work 1

FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011

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Marcus Doyle

Marcus Doyles photo "battersea" gives a prime example of the "3rds" rule when taking photographs...i personally love this photo and how abstract and unique it looks...him putting what seems to be two different sceneries into one is completely bizaare and creative.