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Comtextual Research. (10/10)

Mary Ellen Mark was an American photographer known for her photojournelsim, documentory photoragphy, portratiure and advertising photography. Mary Ellen Mark liked to take pictures of people who were ‘away from mainstream society and towards its more interesting oftrn troubled fringes.’

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Contextual Research. (9/10)

Ken Grant is a photographer and has sicne the 1980′s, concentratwd on working on photogrpahing and capturing the working class life in Liverpool. He is also a lectorer in the photography course in the University of Manchester.

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Contextual Research (8/10)

Martin Parr is a British documentory photographer, photojournelist and photobook collector. Martin is well known for taking intimate, satrirical and anthropological takes on his photographic projects on aspects of modern life and particuallary the social classes of England and the wealth of the Western world.

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Contextual Research (7/10)

Lewis Hine was an American sociologist and photographer. He used his camera to capture the cruelty of child labour and helped change the rules of child labour in America. His work was not easy though, he was often threatened to be beaten or killed, even by police, because they didn’t want him to take photos of something so controversial to sway peoples minds.

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Contextual Research. (6/10)

Dorothea Lange was an American documentory photographer and photojpurnalist, born in Hoboken, New Jersey. Dorothea was best known for her Depression- era work for the FSA (Farm Security Administration). Her photographs humanized the Great Derpression and helped to infulence the progression and development of documentory photography.

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This is my solargram I made from using my pinhole camera, with light paper in it, balanced on my window. It was facing south to catch the sunrise coming up and across over the horizon. I think the paper came detached from the blu tack and fell down that’s why theres a big area of nothing and the picture is slanted because the paper would’ve been reacting to the light had fallen and was only getting it from a certain slightly odd angle. I am still happy with the image I got though because it had only been up for about two and a half weeks and there was a lot of cloudy days within that time line so I’m glad I got any kind of sun line at all. The image would have been better if the light paper hadn’t fallen, but at the same time I’m happy I didn’t check it because it would’ve let a lot of light in and I wouldn’t have put it back in the right place so the results could’ve been a bit blurry but instead I got quite a crisp outcome.

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Describe what a solargram is and how they work.

A solargram is when you take a picture of the sun over a long exposure. The one we are doing is with a pinhole camera so we have light paper in the box that will be reacting to the light from the sun for so long that we won’t have to process it to see the picture. The light will burn into the paper so we can see the picture. Then we can scan it and invert it and then we will have a solargram.

 Find examples of photographers who make solargrams and write about them.

Frank Menger is a photographer who took a series of solargrams on his summer holidays to Montenegro. He used very out of date paper and objects around him to create abstract solargrams. The paper was exposed for 4-6 hours in full sunshine. He then fixed and washed the prints. 

Martin Winfield is a photographer who has created multiple solargrams. This one was taken from inside a hollow part of an apple tree, the opening was west facing so it caught the afternoon sun. He took this one from 22/5/2013-12/10/2013. The pinhole camera was made out of a film canister.

  This solargram was in someone Martin knew garden in Hartlannd, Devon. This was also made from a film canister and the exposure period was: 2/1/2015-26/4/2015

 Explain how you have made your Solargram

I made a pinhole camera previously and loaded it up with light paper then I placed it on my windowsill in my bedroom so it could see the sunrise every morning. I left it there for about 3 weeks and then I will take it down and scan my image on my printer at home. Then I will go onto photoshop and open then scanned picture that I emailed myself and invert the photo. This will be my finished solargram.

 Evaluate the process and your final image.

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Around the college I decided to take pictures of rules around the building because in college you get lots more freedom then in school but it shows that as a society we have to have rules to be able to cope together in the same area.

For the first and second picture my shutter speed was 1/15, the aperture was 5.6 and the ISO was 800.

for the third and fourth picture my shutter speed was 1/60, the aperture was 5.6 and the ISO was 800

I don’t think these pictures are very good at all because they are very basic, the composition isn’t good and they aren’t obviously linked. I found it hard to capture how I felt about college in pictures so I just walked around and tried to look for similarities and I found lot’s of rules so I decided that taking pictures of that would be better then nothing.

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Project Proposal. (Part 2)

I am changing my documentary photography topic as I only have a week left and don’t have any pictures yet because my models can’t do it. I am now going to base it on the title ‘Local’ and will be taking pictures of houses in my village. It is interesting how it is such a small village with only about 300 people in it but there is such a big range of houses, small old houses, small new houses, big old houses and big new houses. It’s interesting to explore the different eras the village has been through. I will also take various pictures of the church because different parts of the church were built during different time periods.

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Making a booklet.

I opened Adobe Id and created a new booklet by going on print, A5, then creating a pages and made that. Then I pressed the text button on the side bar and drew a text box then added my text. After that, I clicked back onto the normal cursor and went to file then place and chose the picture I want to use then drag it from the top corner until it filled the size of the box on the page horizontally, then I moved the picture down until it was in the middle of the box vertically.. I did this for all of the pages and then pressed save as and saved it as an adobe id file. Finally I exported it and saved it as a pdf then I could print it.

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Lauren Greenfield. (Contextual Research 5/10)

Lauren Greenfield has done many different types of things in her career, an artist, a documentory photographer and a documentory filmmaker. She was born on june 22nd 1966 and went to harvard University.

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Nan Goldin.(Contextual Research 4/10)

Nan Goldin was born in Washington D.C in 1953 and grew up in Boston. Nans early life wasn’t that great because she was exposed to family tensions, sexuality and suicide because her older sister committed suicide when Nan was eleven. By age 13-14 Goldin had left home and enrolled in the Satya Community School in Linoln. A member of staff at this school introduced Nan to a camera when she was 15, because she was still grieving her sisters death, she used the camera to take pictures of those who she had really close relationships with. She also enjoyed taking pictures of the problems in America that everyone ignored and stayed silent about. A lot of Nan Goldins work is about sexuality. when she was 18 she enjoyed taking pictures of drag queens and wanted to show them as a third gender as opposed to other people who just wanted to psycho analyse them.

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Lee Friedlander. (Contextual Research 3/10)

Lee Friedlander was born in Aberdeen,Washington and was interested in photography at age 14. From this fascination, he decided to study photography at the Art Centre School in Los Angeles from 1953 to 1955 and after that began some freelance work. He had lots of his work sown in lots of different shows and collections.

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Walker Adams. (Contextual Research 2/10)

Walker Adams is a famous photographer in Americas history of documentary photographers. He was born in St Louis and studied in Paris, he then came to America in 1928 and through self taught photography he created lots of his work and it was shown in many collections. Between 1943 and 1965 he was a staff photographer for Time and Fortune. Then after retiring from professional photography in 1965, he taught graphic arts at Yale. 

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Berenice Abbott. (Contextual Research 1/10)

Berenice Abbott is a notable documentary photographer from Springfield, Ohio. Abbott most famous work is of New York from a birds eye view and a worms eye view which she started in 1929. She worked on this project independently and in 1935 she recieved funding from the Federal Arts Project. Her works were published as Changing New York in 1939, the work was both critically and commercially successful, it remains a classic text for historians of photography.

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Project Proposal.

My idea for my project is to base it on ‘being young’. I want to take a picture of a baby with typical baby toys, then with a phone or something that older people would use. Teenagers doing teenage things so I’ll be with my friend and document what we do together then chose the picture that I feel reflects what teenagers are like the most. Then I’ll take a picture of the knitting that I do and of my cuddly toys that I still have from when I was a baby. For the adults, I’ll take a picture of my dad doing his work and my mum doing her housewife things, then I’ll take a picture of when me and my mum watch Disney films together and my dad playing a game we have with my sister. For very old people, I’ll take a picture of a lady in my village called Rosemary, I’ll photographer her doing her baking and then I’ll photograph her with the lego she has. In this project, I hope to show the idea that we all enjoy things that are stereo typically meant for a certain age group that you necessarily aren’t in and that no one is ever young or old in what they enjoy. So technically your body could be old but you could have a young mind, or you could be young with an old mind. Society only really measures how how young or old you are by how long you have been alive for, that’s the only scale we have and I think we should start thinking that just because people have been around for longer doesn’t mean that they are old. Anyone can be any age. I am going to do my project in five different small books. I will do one for each different age group; babies/toddlers, children up to about 12, teenagers, adults and then old people. I will take a portrait of each of my subjects then I will be taking candid pictures of them doing their various activities. I will also edit the pictures in a certain way, I will edit the ones with the typically older things so they have duller colours and the ones with younger things will be more brightly coloured.

What photographers have you looked at so far?

I haven’t looked at any yet.

Which title have you chosen? Why did you choose this?

I chose being young because I think it’s interesting to explore the idea of what makes someone young or old.

In what way are you going to explore this?

I’m going to explore this by finding out what the different age groups models do in there spare time and take pictures of them doing the things typically for their age groups and the ones that are maybe for a different age group.

What photographs have you taken so far? How have these gone?

I haven’t taken any yet.

What style are you going to shoot in and why?

I am going to shoot in candid portraiture because we are doing documentary photography so I feel like it wouldn’t be true documentary photography if I had it pre-planned.

What locations have you thought about shooting in and why?

I’m going to take the pictures in the models houses so they feel comfortable and they can enjoy doing their activities properly so it looks natural rather then forced.

How will you communicate your concepts through your work?

I will communicate my ideas through my work by creating a very normal

What is your plan for the rest of the assignment? Tell me when you are planning on doing your shoots

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Inside

  Why did you choose the location?

I chose this location because there was a lot of sunshine so it would help to naturally light up Imogens face instead of me having to use the flash, which could’ve looked artificial.

  What settings did you need and why?

For the shutter speed, I had it on 1/125 seconds because it was quite bright so I needed the shutter speed to be fairly quick to not let in too much light. The aperture was on 5.6 and the ISO was on 200. I had the settings on manual so that I could change them to how I thought the picture would be best exposed.

  What focal length did you use? Why?

I used the focal length 55mm because I didn’t want to be very close to Imogens face to make her feel uncomfortable, but I did want the picture to be mainly her face, so I stood a bit away from her and zoomed in. 

  What equipment did you need and why?

I didn’t need any equipment because it was bright inside so I didn’t need to use a low shutter speed so there was no danger of any blurriness in the picture from my hands.

  What would have made it work better?

If the brighter lighting wasn’t so blinding on Imogens face it would’ve looked better so we could see more detail on her face.

  Why did you frame it the way you did?

I framed it the way I did so that you could get Imogens whole face and head in the picture with space above it so it didn’t look cramped and the upper part of her body so that it isn’t like a fancy mug shot.

  How did you find the shoot?

I thought the shoot was fun and an easy task.

Outside.

 Why did you choose the location?

I chose this location because there was a lot of natural lighting from the sun and it had a fairly pretty background. 

 What settings did you need and why?

For the settings, I has the aperture on 5.6 because it was bright but I had the shutter speed on 1/125 so the aperture didn’t need to be any smaller to let in less light. I had the ISO on 200 because it was quite bright so it didn’t need to be on a high ISO.

 What focal length did you use? Why?

I used the focal length 55mm again because I didn’t want to make Imogen feel uncomfortable by me being so close so I stood further away but zoomed in so Imogens face and upper body filled most of the frame.

 What equipment did you need and why?

I didn’t need to use any equipment because it was a bright day so I didn’t need to use a low shutter speed so there was no worry about the picture being blurred from my hand movements.

 What would have made it work better?

I think it could’ve worked better if Imogen was looking straight into the camera and positioned more centrally towards the camera.

 Why did you frame it the way you did?

I framed it the way I did because I wanted to get Imogens head and upper body into the shot with some space above her face so it doesn’t look cramped.

 How did you find the shoot?

I found the shoot fun and easy.