'Something I love... Shoes'
Something I love are shoe as I find the way shoes are designed to comfort the persons feet and the materials used to create the shoe it self. I find taking photographs of shoe a good texture of pattern in the material used, for example Vans shoes are very basic/simplistic but clean which is a good photograph for me as most of the photograph is a material based theme.
Another reason why I like the shoe theme is because i can get a different style of shoe, from boots, high heels, slippers to trainers, football boots and many more shoes that I can think of. |
Pinhole Photography
Pinhole Photography is simply a camera without and lens and doesn’t have to be anything expensive or fancy it could be a cardboard box or a metal tin. In the example to the left this person has used a can with black duck-tape to make the picture work in the dark. The hole is tiny as it only lets a tiny bit of light into the box/tin this is called Aperture. Aperture is letting light pass through a small gap in the camera so the image forms on the photographic paper. Photographic paper is very sensitive to light as when it is exposed to light it will burn and turn black and ruin the photographic paper. The image of a pinhole camera is projected onto a translucent screen or to trace the image on paper. But it is more often used without a translucent screen for pinhole photography with photographic film or photographic paper placed on the surface opposite to the pinhole aperture. To get a better resolution would be to make the walls of the box thinner and make the size of the hole smaller to get a better quality picture out of pinhole photography. |
Why Black and White is Important?
It is still very important to have black and white photography around even in this modern day and era, as black and white photography is looked at in a different way to coloured photographs. For example the mood can be effected heavily on a person’s view of the photograph. It could be a man in a doorway showing a depth of horror and a sinister approach to the photograph. Another example could be an urban area with street lights lighting up the road at night with people walking by showing a busy and crowded view of the photograph. It can also change someone’s feeling and emotion’s by looking at the photograph and by the textures and colours as well. Also seeing light in a different way as we go through life everyday seeing light in one way only and in some photographs you can see the light in a very different way.
Another thing that we see in most coloured photographs is vibrant colours that standout from others but with black and white photographs there is no focus point as the colour is no longer a distraction, it allows you to see the shadows, composition, colour temperature and also the difficult objects to spot in a coloured photograph which might have been blended in with a coloured photograph. Black and white photographs also highlight the shapes, patterns and forms that couldn’t be seen very well if the photo was coloured. Connecting a background with a foreground to make one standout over the other can give a bold statement about the photograph or a clear image of what’s going on. This also simplifies the ability to see the unknown in a photograph. When taking photographs of people black and white photographs show more detail of the skin tone, eyes, lips e.t.c. which a coloured photograph would lack and wouldn’t be seen. To conclude Black and white photographs they can be very powerful and can interoperate people perception of a photograph showing the emotion of the photograph as it could be a negative photo as well as a positive. Also depending on what the photograph is and what it is about can display if there is a story to the photograph and what inspired the photographer to take the photo. |
Examples of Black and White Photography
Photographers Researched
Nancy BreslinNancy Breslin uses pinhole photography to take photographs of people drinking tea in different cafe's
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Henri Cartier-BressonHenri Cartier- Bresson is a black and white photographer who deals with broad subjects
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Scott SpeckScott Speck is a pinhole Photographer who looks at buildings from a different angles within the pinhole camera its self
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Image Analysis
The Migrant Mother
The photograph that has become known as "Migrant Mother" is one of a series of photographs that Dorothea Lange made of Florence Owens Thompson and her children in February or March of 1936 in Nipomo, California. Lange was concluding a month's trip photographing migratory farm labor around the state for what was then the Resettlement Administration.The images were made using a Graflex camera. The original negatives are 4x5" film. It is not possible to determine on the basis of the negative numbers (which were assigned later at the Resettlement Administration) the order in which the photographs were taken.