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Film Cameras On Tuesday 26th September, we were told we were going to experiment with film cameras and had to pair up with someone. I paired up with Chloe D. We were told we had 24 slides which meant we took 12 pictures each. Once we had obtained our cameras we were taught how to insert the film into the camera, which was the next step. Once our film was ready in the film camera we were aloud to go out and experiment with the camera and take some photos.  On this particular day Freshers Fair was taking place at college, this gave us a great opportunity to experiment with our film cameras. We took a series of images of Freshers Fair, for example candy floss, ice cream van and a live band made great opportunities for us to capture the day.  Developing the film: The next step was to develop the film, which is were we went into the dark room and took the film out of the camera. This had to be done in pitch black so the film...

Filming an advert On 27th September our class was doing a Carousel where we were having a go at different subjects. Today we was working with the media department and had a task of making an advert about a BIC pen and why this BIC pen is better than your average ball point pen. We were put into small groups first and we all had to come up with an idea on how we could advertise this BIC pen. Me, Chloe D and Jada were in a group; our idea was about a small girl who loved colouring and she had all these coloured pens and was also losing them and found it frustrating having to switch to different coloured pens. Then her mum buys her this 4-colour BIC pen and all her troubles are solved and she's happy. As a class we had to decide who had the best idea and we all chose group 2 who was Henry, Heather, Yasmin and Josh. There idea was based in a class room and when the colours on the BIC pen we...

Document what you did in the session on Tuesday and Wednesday (Pictures, Diary entries, Printouts ETC) Write up your experience of the following... Research that you carry out in these sessions The research I have carried our in these sessions are researching pinhole photographers and photogram photographers.  Skills that you have tried,  The skills I have tried in this course is  experimenting  with Film cameras, creating photograms and pinholes,  and learning the rules in a darkroom and creating our work in the dark room using chemicals to expose our work. We also learnt how to work Adobe Audition. The processes  and methods you used (Photography wet process, Screen Printing, Photoshop layering etc) To create my photogram we went through the process of setting the enlarger to 10 seconds to then placing the photographic paper into the first stage of chemicals for two minutes to the second stage for 10 seconds and then in the th...

Sir David Brewster Sir David Brewster was a Scottish physic, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer, historian of science and university principle. Born 11 December 1781 and passed away 10 February 1868. He was educated at University of Edinburgh where he studied double refraction by compression and discovered photo elastic effect. Sir David Brewster was the first pinhole photographer when he made his first pinhole in the 1850's. His first pinhole photograph was of a field where he experimented how a pinhole worked and from then created many photographs using the pinhole camera. The pinhole is a lens less camera in a tight-light box with a very fine round hole in one end and film or photographic paper in the other. Light passes through the hole; where the image is formed onto the film or photographic paper. The image-forming ability of a tiny hole is thought to have been known thousands of years ago. Pinhole cameras have infinite depth of field, ever...

Man Ray Man Ray was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in France. He was born 27 August 1980 and died 18 November 1976. After Man Ray graduated from high school in 1908, he was offered a scholarship to study architecture but decided to pursue a career in arts. His parents didn't agree with his decision, although supported him for his love of arts and even rearranged their living room just so Man Ray could pursue his dreams and used their living room as his own studio. He stayed for 4 years working towards being a professional artist while earning some money as a technical illustrator and commercial artist at various Manhattan companies. Man Ray is a painter, object artist and a film maker. He was the very first artist whose images were more valuable to collectors than his artist work. He started to develop a career in fashion photography, where he did photo shots and captured images for popular magazines in Paris. In France he produced art work which are ...

Semiotics Signifier: The word (to get you to think) you think. Example: Rose Signified: The image/object that you think of. Example: (image of a rose) Denotation: It is what the sign denotes - say what you see. Connotation: The meaning you create to what you see. Example: A rose has connotations of love and the film beauty and the beast. Symbolic signs: Has no resemblance between the signifier and the signified. Iconic signs: Looks like the thing it represents Example: Cycle sign is an image of a bike. Indexical signs: Shows evidence of what's being represented Example: Toxic has the symbol of a skull.

Darkroom Today we went into the darkroom and produced pinhole photos as well as picture grams with the enlarger. Using the enlarger we created photograms using objects that light can travel through creating an image onto the photographic paper. We then went through the process of placing the photographic paper through chemicals to release the image. The chemicals go through a step to 1 minute to 10 seconds to 2 minutes and then 5 minutes of washing the chemicals off the paper, meaning it is safe to then hold. Materials The materials we used to make the photograms was photographic paper and an enlarger. The enlarger is a machine that creates the light through your chosen objects, capturing exposure for 10 seconds. Another material that we used to create photograms were tongs to place our photographic paper into the chemicals releasing the image on the paper. Making the pinholes we used a shoe box as the camera and then made the pinhole where we had the shutter so...

Shutter Speed Shutter speed is the amount of time in which the shutter is open for. When the shutter is opened for a small amount of time (i.e 1/1000) the object in the photograph is completely in focus, this would be ideal for sport shots or even wildlife such as birds flying. When the shutter speed is opened for a long amount of time (i.e. 1/3) the moving image will be blurred.  Below are my examples:  Aperture