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Assignment: Create a Daguerreotype
1. Find a model to pose. To add to the look, have them dress up. The model must sit straight and no smiling.
2. Have a simple backdrop. 3. Take the image into Photoshop and use the Sepia and Vignette tutorial to complete the look. |
Daguerreotype It was invented by Louis-Jaques-Mandé Daguerre and introduced worldwide in 1839. To make a daguerreotype, the daguerreotypist would polish a sheet of silver-plated copper to a mirror finish; treat it with fumes that made its surface light-sensitive; expose it in a camera for as long as was judged to be necessary, which could be as little as a few seconds for brightly sunlit subjects or much longer with less intense lighting; make the resulting latent image on it visible by fuming it with mercury vapor; remove its sensitivity to light by liquid chemical treatment; rinse and dry it; then seal the easily marred result behind glass in a protective enclosure.
Viewing a daguerreotype is unlike looking at any other type of photograph. The image does not sit on the surface of the metal, but appears to be floating in space, and the illusion of reality, especially with examples that are sharp and well exposed is unique to the process. The image is on a mirror-like silver surface, normally kept under glass, and will appear either positive or negative, depending on the angle at which it is viewed, how it is lit and whether a light or dark background is being reflected in the metal. The darkest areas of the image are simply bare silver; lighter areas have a microscopically fine light-scattering texture. The surface is very delicate, and even the lightest wiping can permanently scuff it. Some tarnish around the edges is normal, and any treatment to remove it should be done only by a specialized restorer. |
Collodion Wet Plate ProcessThe collodion process is an early photographic process, said to have been invented, almost simultaneously, by Frederick Scott Archerand Gustave Le Gray in about 1850. By the end of the 1850s it had almost entirely replaced the first practical photographic process, the daguerreotype. "Collodion process" is usually taken to be synonymous with the "collodion wet plate process", an intricate process which required the photographic material to be coated, sensitized, exposed and developed within the span of about fifteen minutes, necessitating a portabledarkroom for use in the field. Although collodion was normally used in this wet form, the material could also be used in humid ("preserved") or dry form, but at the cost of greatly increased exposure time, making these forms unsuitable for the usual work of most professional photographers—portraiture. Their use was therefore confined to landscape photography and other special applications where minutes-long exposure times were tolerable.
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Assignment: Create an Image Transfer
1. Find an image that you are going to transfer onto a surface, such as glass, wood, plastic, fabric, etc...
2. Print the mirror image using a Laser Jet Color Printer.
3. Coat the surface material (glass, wood, etc) with Matte Medium. The coat should not be too thin or too thick.
4. With image side down, place the image on top of the surface material.
5. Burnish the image to create a good bond with the Matte Medium and surface material.
6. Wait 24 hours.
7. Using a water bottle, lightly spray the paper and rub paper off the surface material.
8. Repeat Step 7 until there is no paper residue on the surface material.
2. Print the mirror image using a Laser Jet Color Printer.
3. Coat the surface material (glass, wood, etc) with Matte Medium. The coat should not be too thin or too thick.
4. With image side down, place the image on top of the surface material.
5. Burnish the image to create a good bond with the Matte Medium and surface material.
6. Wait 24 hours.
7. Using a water bottle, lightly spray the paper and rub paper off the surface material.
8. Repeat Step 7 until there is no paper residue on the surface material.
Eadweard Muybridge
Group f64 (Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham)
Group f/64 was a group of seven 20th-century San Francisco photographers who shared a common photographic style characterized by sharp-focused and carefully framed images seen through a particularly Western (U.S.) viewpoint. In part, they formed in opposition to the Pictorialist photographic style that had dominated much of the early 20th century, but moreover they wanted to promote a new Modernist aesthetic that was based on precisely exposed images of natural forms and found objects.
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Assignment: Create a Pictorialist Style Photo
The purpose was to demonstrate that photography was more than this, that it was a tool used by an artist to show artistic talent and impressions. The photograph was a carefully constructed single, original product, and just like a painting, a true work of art.
The emphasis is not so much in the subject or the scene that's in front of the camera, but that the photograph is of the highest artistic quality. Photographers that use this technique are more interested in the aesthetics of the image and the emotions that it brings forth. In short the finished product comes first and the subject matter second. This technique was an attempt to truly bring photography into the fine art genre. Eventually the movement divided and a more realistic style or movement emerged known as Photo Session, where photography was to be recognized as a true art form on its own merits. |