Cover Page

COVER PAGE

Spanish magazine Cover
















My version of the Spanish magazine cover with my version of Platon's Prince portrait in it

Platon Interview

Platon is one of the most popular advertising photographers in present times. Companies such as Nike, Rey-Ban, Levi’s, Diesel, Motorola, and Converse have hired him for their advertising campaigns. Platon also has his own gallery of celebrity portraits he photographed himself. This photographer is indeed at the very top of his trade.

“What are your inspirations?” was one of my first questions to him. Judging by the major involvement of celebrities in his work, I more or less guessed his answer right: “One of my major inspirations is the movie business. I grew up with Al Pacino in Scarface and The Godfather. I’ve worked with him. I grew up with Sylvester Stallone in Rambo and Rocky. I’ve worked with him as well. I’ve been able to work with Harrison Ford as well, who I admired greatly for his part in Star Wars, another big movie from my teenage years and beyond. My passion for movies is definitely one of the reasons why I work with the sort of people I do now.” From his answers in the interview, you can really tell he holds a strong passion for his work. He is delighted to work with his idols of the movie business. He even admitted that his major childhood dream was to be among the movie stars he was fond of. A lot of those movie stars were present at Platon’s exhibition in Hollywood two days ago, which proved to be a great success.

Platon’s exhibition in Hollywood took place next to Beverly Hills. Many movie stars, including Bill Murray, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and also the people Platon has actually worked with: Al Pacino, Harrison Ford, Marlon Brando, and others came to his exhibition. Platon was pleased to receive so many of his favorite actors and actresses. One of the most successful photos in his exhibition was that of Prince. Prince could not make it to the exhibition as he was on the other side of the country, visiting a friend who lives in New York. When he heard of the success of the picture in which he modeled for, he certainly seemed happy. The image shows a white background behind Prince pointing his hand towards the camera, creating one of those angles that Platon’s celebrity portraits are so famous for. There were attendees to his exhibition that were not familiar with Platon’s work, but after they looked at his photographs they expressed their admiration of him, saying Platon was a great revelation for them. The portrait of Prince was used in a magazine in Spain that revolves around celebrity life and news called “Hola!”. Platon’s works have reached Europe as well, that is a sign of his growing fame on a global scale.

Irving Penn Interview

One of the classic masters of photography in the 20^th century is Irving Penn, and that is not a debatable face. He has been an influence for many photographers that came after him, amateur and professional alike. That is, he was influence and he still is for many photographers that admire the photography from the 20^th century. I guarantee you that those who have an interest in classic 20^th century photography definitely know the name of Irving Penn, or even know some of his works, as he was famous for many years, including part of the first half of the 20^th century and the second half of it as well. In my interview with him which took place shortly before his death which occurred on October 27^th, 2009, I asked him how he felt about being an influence to so many and said to me, “It’s an amazing feeling, as I never expected to be this big in the world of photography before I started my photography career or even during my first years at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art.”

His photography style is distinguishable from most other photographers. His works are original, creative, and brilliant, which is the reason why he has achieved as much as he has achieved. Among the variety of photography methods he used within his style, there exists one that is particularly original. That would be the black and white portraits of people standing or sitting in a corner. Most of these portraits show people posing in an awkward position, including kneeling on a stool, or bending their head uncomfortably to a side. These portraits are proof of the originality in Irving Penn's work. When I asked him what inspired him to make these portraits the way they are, he told me that “emotions [he] felt from the people during the post-World War II times were strong, and [he] expressed them through the poses and facial expressions of the models in the portraits”. Poses acting as symbols for hunger, helplessness, weakness, sickness, misery, and other such things are used in many of the portraits. The facial expressions of the models are serious, containing no trace of happiness or joy, further expression of the feelings felt by people during the post-World War II times.

Irving Penn’s work is shown in famous galleries around the world in cities such as London, Paris, and New York. There are numerous books written by him that have been published as well. He was one of the pioneers of photography, one of the founders of modern photography, and therefore will be remembered for many years alongside artists such as Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol.

Platon - portrait of Prince













My version of Platon's Prince portrait














My version of Irving Penn's Marcel Duchamp portrait















Irving Penn - Portrait of Marcel Duchamp

Advertising

Advertising

ZARA Autumn/Winter 2009-10 Campaign

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrkdO3bxtTM

In this campaign, the most popular advertising method in fashion industry is used. That method is showing attractive/beautiful models to present their new clothing items. In this advertisement, they show an attractive female model to present the new female clothing items. In the second half of the advertisement, they show a male model presenting the new male clothing items.

Zara started in 1975 when the founder and owner, Amancio Ortega (owner of other clothing lines such as Massimo Dutti and Bershka, opened the first Zara store in A Coruña, Spain. The clothing in the store was higher-end fashion that looked alike and that was at a much lower price than other higher-end fashion brands. The store became a success, and Ortega started opening more stores around Spain. In 1988, the first international Zara store was opened. It was in Porto, Portugal. In 1989, Zara appeared in the United States, 1990 it appeared in France, 1992 in Mexico, 1993 in Greece, Belgium and Sweden in 1994, and now it exists in over 73 countries around the world. Since 2007, Zara's stores include men's clothing, women's clothing, and children's clothing.

SAN MIGUEL Beer Commercial 2006 Summer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS0HxOHuLio

This commercial is a comic commercial advertising a Spanish brand of beer. This advertisement uses the method of comedy to make people but the product. This works by making people laugh and remember this video, so that when they go to a supermarket to buy beer, they remember the commercial and see the San Miguel beer, then buy it.

Grupo Mahou-San Miguel is a Spanish brewing company that was formed in 1890. At the beginning it was called Hijos de Casimiro Mahou, fabrica de hielo y cerveza (Sons of Casimiro Mahou, factory of ice and beer). At first, the company was only in Madrid. During the 60s, it became the first company to use aluminium barrels instead of wood barrels. In 2000, the company bought the Phillipines brewery San Miguel, Fabricas de Cerveza y Malta (San Miguel, Factories of Beer and Malt Beer). After that, the company was renamed Grupo Mahou-San Miguel. By 2000 it was the biggest Spanish brewing company. In 2007, they bought the Alhambra Brewery in Granada, Spain.

WWF Canada Light Bulb Commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq6MUCSHSek

This advertisement promotes energy-efficient light bulbs. This helps the cause of energy-efficiency, which is one of the solutions for global warming (reduce non-renewable resource use, to reduce gas emissions). They use the method of background music which makes people enjoy the advertisement more, and draw their attention to it.

The WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) is an international non-governmental organization that works on the restoration, conservation, and research of the environment. In the USA and Canada, it is still called by its original name, World Wildlife Fund. It has over 5 million supporters, and is based in over 90 countries worldwide. It is the largest independent conservation organization in the world. The organization's mission is "to halt and reverse the destruction of our environment". It was formed in 1961 as a charity group in Switzerland. It's initial mission was the "conservation of world fauna, flora, forests, landscape, water, soils and other natural resources by the management of land, research and investigation, and publicity, coordination of efforts, cooperation with other interested parties and all other appropriate means." Eventually it set up offices around the whole world, and changed its name to the World Wide Fund for Nature in 1986. In the 1990s, the WWF changed its mission to "Stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature by conserving the world's biological diversity, ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable, and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption."

Traditional Regalia

DIARY ENTRY

I have had good experiences with this project. I enjoyed creating ideas for it, and seeing how they would turn out. My ideas I came up with were: the subject carries a ceremonial sword and hang a towel/cloth over the sword (like bullfighters do); The other idea was for the subject to wear a Mexican sombrero, a cloth/poncho around his neck or over his shoulder, and carry a guitar. An idea I shared with someone else was the idea of having a female subject have a cloth around her shoulders and face (Muslim traditional style). After shooting, I worked on them with Photoshop, and have been satisfied by the final prints.

THEORY NOTES

This portrait is of the French King Louis XVI who lived during the 18th century, and who died at the hands of the French Revolution. It is a very good example of how formal portraits with traditional regalia look like. Many other portraits of royalty in the 17th century, 18th century, such as this one are good examples of that look. The pose is also very formal, which is very typical in royal portraits. In those times, people in portraits (not necessarily royalty) did not smile, which made the portrait even more formal than it already looked with the poses. Today, royalty can be seen smiling in pictures, however most portraits of them show them without a smile.


This is a very good example of formal posing in contemporary portraits. Weddings are events where many formal photographs are made, of the wife and husband (such as the one to the left). This has been a widely known and existent tradition in the contemporary world. In a way, it resembles those 17th century/18th century portraits. The people are slightly turned at an angle from the camera/painter, while their heads are facing straight at the camera/painter. Again, the subjects are not smiling, they keep a straight, formal facial expression, as well as keeping their backs straight (part of keeping a formal pose).

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Bob Langrish-

A British internationally known equestrian (horse) photographer. He has over 37 years of experience in equestrian photography, and has a library of photographs containing over 400,000 images, which he adds 20,000 to every year. He takes pictures for the top equestrian magazines which are located in 20 countries. He has taken pictures of horses at 6 Olympic Games, and travels more than 400, 000 miles each four years to take pictures for calendars and magazines. All the photography skills Langrish knows has been taught to him by himself. The relevance to our project is that in some of his images he added Arab traditional costume to a person who poses with an Arab horse.

This is a picture taken by Bob Langrish of an Arab horse next to a person dressed in traditional Arab clothing.

Lauren Fitzgerald-

She is an American portrait photographer. She is specialized in children photography,

and uses studio lighting as well as natural lighting. She has won awards, and her interest in

photography and writing has led her to getting a degree in Journalism at the Philip Merrill

College of Photography at the University of Maryland. her style is different from other

portrait photographers as she does not tend to get the subjects in a pose and instruct them,

she just takes a photo without instructing them. This gives the pictures a more natural look

than most other portraits. The relevance to this project is shown through some of the images

taken of babies dressed in traditional clothing of their country of origin.

This is a picture taken by Lauren Fitzgerald of a baby

with Chinese origin dressed in Chinese traditional

clothing.

Bipinchandra-

An Indian photographer working in the UK. She has a wide variety of things she takes pictures of revolving around Indian culture, and some non-Indian things as well. Her portfolio includes an abstract section, a section of hand photographs, buildings, interiors, food, signs, people, and a section on religious belief as well. Her relevance to our project is high, as many of her photos are of Indian peoples in cities such as Calcutta, new Delhi, Varanasa, and many of these pictures show Indians in their traditional clothing.

This is an image taken by Bipinchandra of a Rajasthani woman

in New Delhi wearing traditional clothing.

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William Hogarth-

Born in 1697 and died in 1764. He was a London-based cartoonist and engraver. During his years of work, he was well known for his satires of society and politicians. He started off as an apprentice of silverplate engraving with master engraver Ellis Gamble. After finishing his apprenticeship, he met his work's inspiration, artist Sir James Thornhill. He decided to go to Thornhill's free art classes, and eventually became friends with him and married his daughter, Jane. Horgarth worked for print sellers, and published his own work as well. Some of the famous works he published were The Harlot's Progress and the series The Rake's Progress. In his works, he made fun of society, including immorality, drunkeness, and so on. Close to his death, he made anti-war works, which made him enemies in the Parliament. However, he continued working on it nevertheless until his death.


A painting of Mary Edwards by William Hogarth
showing a formal pose related our project.

Annie Leibovitz-

American photographer born in 1949. She is well known for her commercial photography. She began by studying art at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1967 to 1970. After that, she began working with the rock magazine Rolling Stone as a staff photographer. Within two years, at the age of 23, she was promoted to chief photographer. She was the one who took the photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono some hours before the death of John Lennon. In 1983, Leibovitz left Rolling Stone and started working for the entertainment magazine Vanity Fair. While working for them, she made many good portraits of celebrities, ranging from presidents to well known actors to beginning teenage celebrities. known Vanity Fair cover photographs made by Leibovitz include a preganant Demi Moore, and Whoopi Goldberg half-submerged in a bathtub of milk. Later in the 1980s, Leibovitz began working on advertising campaings. A very well known advertising campaign she worked on was the American Express "Membership" campaign, which featured celebrities such as Elmore Leonard, Tom Selleck, and Luciano Pavarotti, which Leibovitz won a Clio Award for in 1987. In 1996, she was chosen to be the official photographer for Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.


Photo of Nicole Kidman taken by Annie Leibovitz. It is relevant to our project because of the formal pose involved (straight back is the major contributor to the formality of the photo).

PRINTING COMPOSITIONS

This is my first print. The subject is Fabrizio, and he is carrying a ceremonial sword with a towel hanging over it. It's meant to represent Spain (the subject carrying a bullfighter's sword and cloth). When this image was passed through Photoshop, I made the towel look more like a cloth a bullfighter would have, and I got a rather satisfying result. I couldn't find a bullfighter costume to make the picture even more authentic, however I made sure the main focus in the image was what he had in his hand by showing only half of Fabrizio's body, and having the towel and sword be closer to the middle than Fabrizio's torso.

For this image I had to use myself as the subject, since we couldn't find Mr. Jimenez to do the part. For this picture I used my guitar, a sombrero I had in my house, and my bathroom floor mat (the same one I used for the bullfighter style print). This one looks authentic except for the jeans, so it is definitely the second most authentic out of the three behind the Muslim-style print. I used Photoshop to erase part of a Jimi Hendrix symbol that was on my shirt.







I didn't come up with this idea. I was thinking about it, but then I saw someone else already used it. So I shared the idea with them. This is probably the most authentic print out of all three prints. The subject is wearing a scarf, but since the photo is taken from the shoulder up, it looks like the subject (Barbara) is wearing a full body cloth. The only Photoshopping I did for this print was to make the background uniform in color, and to make a little uncovered area on the shoulder black.








This is the cartoon version of my third, where I used Photoshop to whiten the eyes and make the face one single color. I thought this version was pretty good, it gives it a little more of the dramatic look.

Recreating Film Stills

DIARY ENTRY

The darkroom work for this project went smoothly and did not take too much time, as there was no reshooting needed. All the pictures on the negatives turned out fine, so I was happy about the developing part of the project. I did not need to make any digital enhancements on the pictures, so I can't comment on that.

THEORY NOTES

This shot is taken from the 2007 movie American Gangster. It looks very similar to the shot I took of Meghan and Josh. The subjects' positions, especially the man's, are the same as Meghan and Josh's positions. The only thing that doesn't look similar is the girl's expression compared to Meghan's.



This shot is taken from the 1959 movie Ben Hur. The photo that it looks like is the one I took of Fabrizio and Heather. This photo is of Ben Hur (Charleton Heston) looking at Jesus' face as he's passing by with the cross. The differences between the two photos are that there are two male subjects in the Ben Hur one, and also that the hair covers the face of the subject on the left. In my photo, you can see both of the faces. Also, there's a bit more distance between the subjects in the Ben Hur one. Besides that, there's a
close similarity.


This shot is taken from the 40s movie Casablanca. It slightly looks like the photo I took of Heather, where she's looking off to a side. The difference is that Heather is holding a cup to her mouth, and there's a vase in the background of the Casablanca shot, but besides that there is a strong similarity. They're both standing alone and looking off to a side, staring at something.

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MIRJANA VRBASKI

Mirjana Vrbaski is a photographer who was born in Canada. She was raised in Canada and Serbia as well, and has been living and working in The Hague since 2006. She studied English Literature at the University of Guelph in Canada from 1996 till 2000. In the Hague, she works at the Royal Academy of Art in the photography section. She's had group and solo exhibitons in various places in the UK and in The Hague. Her pictures have a bored mood, portraits taken straight facing the person. Many of her photos are taken in a way that makes viewers think of old or ancient times.


I picked this photo in particular out of her portfolio, because it is a good example of how her portraiture style resembles the older style of portraiture. A serious face, with a hairstyle that seems like a hairstyle used more in older times. The subject's pose is very formal as well.

LIAM DANIEL

A London-based photographer that has been working as a film stills photographer since 1989. His first experiences working with movies was shortly after he came out of film school, when he took still photos for Derek Jarman's movie The Garden. Since then he has been working in many places taking film still photos.

This is a film still taken by Liam Daniel
of the movie The Garden.

JASIN BOLAND

Australian film stills photographer who has worked on famous movies such as The Matrix, The Mummy 3, The Bourne Supremacy, Ghost Rider, and other well-known films from 1998 till present day. His photos are widely used in magazines, movie posters, etc.


This is a film still taken by Jasin Boland from the movie the Matrix.

JAAP BUITENDIJK

A Dutch film stills photographer. He was born in 1970 in Holland, and moved to Britain in 1990. He travelled a lot during his early twenties, and became passionate for photography during those travels. He studied Documentary Photography at the Newport School of Art and received a first class honors degree in 1996. He has worked with films such as Gladiator, Harry Potter, Blood Diamond, and Wanted.

This is a film still of the movie Gladiator by Jaap Buitendijk.

PRINTING COMPOSITIONS

APERTURE: 5.6

TIME: 14 Seconds
NO FILTER

This is probably the picture that most looks like the original, except for the fact that here they're standing in the opposite directions than in the original. The shadows around Josh's chin are the same as the shadows the original subject has over theirs. Meghan's face expression is identical to the original, except that Meghan's eyes are looking down instead of forward.

APERTURE: 5.6
TIME: 8 Seconds
NO FILTER

This shot was complicated when it came to making Heather look like the original. The fur of the coat kept coming off, and the hair took a while to prepare as well. Putting aside the difficulty, it came out pretty succesfully. I would say this one's the second best.

APERTURE: 5.6
TIME: 11 Seconds
NO FILTER

I couldn't find the digital shot I took for this one. I consider this one to be the hardest one to shoot. The background couldn't be imitated, as there were simply no materials I could find to do so. The time was limited as well, so I couldn't find a time to go find the materials. Fabrizio and Heather do resemble the original positions well though.

Lighting (pt. 3: hair)

DIARY ENTRY

I did not learn much from this part of the project from my own experiences. The new knowledge I have seems to only come from the theory notes. I had very limited time to take photos, as I missed class time and ended up having only two classes to finish. I hastily took the photos, so their quality is not as good as it could have been with more time. The good part was that at least half of the shots came out on the negative, and I could find the shots that followed the requirements. The work was done on time with the xtension I was given due to the two absences. So timewise I worked well, which I greatly improved on the second part of the lighting project.

PRINTING COMPOSITIONS

This is my contact sheet for the hair part of the lighting project. The aperture on the contact sheet is 5.6, and the time is 7 seconds. It contained 5 angle shots and the 3 double subject shots. The aperture is 5.6, and the time is 7 seconds. This is the aperture and time used for all the final prints and test strips.

This is my angle shot. The photo was taken from a side-angle, which was

done to show the back of the hair as well. This is done to have a more complete image of the hairstyle in the photo. For both the final print and the test strip, the aperture is 5.6 and the time is 7 seconds.

This is my double subject shot. It uses the same subject as the angle shot plus a new subject. The image is taken from behind, which emphasizes the hair more than it would in a picture taken from the front. This is true, because if it is taken from the front, the faces are shown which takes some attention away from the hair. Although photos of the back are not very common, I decided to take one because the subjects' hair did not stand out much from the front. The aperture and the time for the final print and the test strip are the same. The aperture is 5.6, and the time is 7 seconds.

THEORY NOTES

FLASHES

The flash in photography is a subject that seems complicated for ma ny people. Many consider to be used only when there is low-light present, however it can also be used to improve images with normal or higher levels of light. There are different kinds of ways you can use the flash including: direct flash, bounce flash, and fill flash.

Direct Flash: This is when the falsh is pointed directly at the subject. This is the most used type of flash, as many cameras with built-in flashes take direct flashes when used. The effect of using a flash this way

is creating strong shadows behind the subject and making the image have little depth. Some problems that come with the direct flash is the "red-eye" effect on the subject, and the reflection of the flash on mirrors or other reflecting objects facing the camera when the shots are taken. The advantage of the direct flash is that it's the one that can reach the farthest.

Image: http://media.photobucket.com/image/direct%20flash/haleiwa-brando/3O1F3688.jpg

Bounce Flash: This type of flash is useful when solving the "red-eye" problem or reflections of the flash's light in mirrors. The flash does not point directly at the subject, it points at an angle away from the subject so that the light 'bounces' (that's why it's called the bounce flash) off a ceiling, wall, or the ground and falls on the subject. Bounce flash units are the flashes that can be tilted in order to do the bounce flash. Bounce flash gives off less light than direct flash because some light is lost when reflecting off a ceiling, wall, etc. Shadows are also weakened due to the lower intensity of the light.






Image: http://photodoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/flash-diagram.png

Fill Flash: This type of flash is useful when taking photos in bright sunlight and when taking backlight shots. In bright sunlight, the contrast between deep shadows and bright sunlight is so high that many times the photos do not come out. The fill flash is used to illuminate areas that have shadow in order to keep more light balance between highly illuminated areas and less bright areas in an image. Fill flash is helpful in backlight situations because when the sun is shining at the front of the subject and not the back, light is needed to illuminate the back to keep the light balance.

image: http://www.vividlight.com/6/images/fill2.jpg

LIGHT METERS

Image of light meter: http://www.teds.com.au/www/6/files/308s.jpg

Light meters are used to determine the aperture and shutter speed needed when taking a photo. They measure the amount of light, and then recommend a lower or higher shutter speed and aperture depending on the amount of light present in the image. There are different type of light meters: reflective metering and incident metering.

Reflective metering: This is the most common type of light metering in cameras. When using this type of light metering, light is measured from the light reflecting off the subject. This can have an unbalance when having a white and black shirt for example. The white shirt reflects more light than the black shirt does. Despite these disadvantages, reflective metering is the most common because it can be used from a long distance as well. There are different types of reflective metering: center-weighted, spot metering, and matrix metering. Center-weighted is when a general metering of the light in the whole area is taken. Spot metering is when only the the light of a certain section of the area is metered in order to get the different ranges of light in the image. Matrix metering is the newest type of reflective metering, where the metering is computerized and divides an area into 5-25 different sections. It then determines the aperture and shutter speed needed to make the whole image come out well.

Incident metering: Unlike reflective metering, the light that is metered is the light falling onto the subject. This is measured by a white dome on certain light meters, which you point at the camera instead of pointing it at the subject which is what you do with reflective metering.

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George Wendt- He is a German fashion photographer. He also works with hairstyles which is the focus of our project at the moment. His parents were graphic artists, so he was introduced to art from an early age. He was instructed in painting, sketching, and sculpting. Photography came after that and became his favorite form of art. He had his first photo exhibition in his teenage years, and was introduced to fashion and beauty photography later on when assisting photographers in Paris. He began a freelance career in the fashion and beauty photography business, and among his clients are Wella, Joop!, Nivea, Mercedes, and Procter & Gamble.

Image: http://www.georgwendt.com/data/pages/031909063751_1Web_Olga.jpg

Simon Powell- Fashion photographer that is involved in editorial photography and hairstyle fashion as well. His clients include Reebok, Conde Nast, Cotswold, Musto, Sassi Holford, Origin, Future, and the BBC.

Image: http://www.hji.co.uk/hjimages/images/qhs30106/hji/medium/2008-long-ponytail.jpg













Tajinder Sandhu- an award-winning photographer from the UK who is specialized in fashion, portraiture, and beauty photography. He has been involved in fashion photography for about 6-7 years and has worked with some very well-known hairdressers, designers, make-up artists, and models. His hair photography has been very successful since it was influenced by the talented haridressers he has worked with.

Image: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUTC7vInTlRLjXo0mcpfWEKxmvyIyyVxAOLjYVHmU7bKSEtn0gcnayMhakHEMRo0xArSjCrXOEtYb1h-687aKWZRYTHeoSZakXLyh1Ut_xZyOdwuH4inz_IUznCrn6t6-KaY9V7ZikRcA1/s400/Hair+Magazine,+August+2009.jpg

Lighting (part 2: fashion)

PRINTING COMPOSITIONS

This is the contact sheet which contains all nine images that I made

final prints of. All pictures were taken outside the photography area next to the canal and highway. There is not filter used in the contact sheet or any of the prints and test strips. The contact sheet's aperture is 5.6, and the time is 5 seconds.

This is my first accessory image. The accessory the image is focusing on is the watch on the subject's wrist. If I would've taken this picture again I would've zoomed in more on the

watch to make it stand out more. The final print's aperture is 4, and the time is 2 seconds. The test strip's aperture is 4, and the time is 2-4-6 seconds.

This is my second accessory image. I think that the final print wasn't put into the water long enough, as you can see by the brown marks running down it. The accessory in the image is the set of earphones. The aperture is 5.6, and the time is 6 seconds. The test strip's aperture is 5.6, and the time is 3-4-9 seconds.

This is my third accessory image. The accessories in the image are the bracelets, however the original plan was to focus on the belt. The belt does not stand out much, however the bracelets stand out quite a lot, so those are the main objects instead. The final print's aperture is 5.6 and the time is 6 seconds. The test strip's aperture is 5.6 and the time is 4-6-9 seconds.

This is my first clothes image. This picture had a great use of sunlight, since it used a bit of the "backlight" effect, which is when the sun shines behind the subject. It gave a little of the 'halo effect' which can be seen by the light shining around the subject's hair. The final print's aperture is 5.6 and the time is 4 seconds. The test strip's aperture is 5.6 and the time is 6-8-10 seconds.

is my second clothes image. I like how theres is a contrast between the first and second subject's clothing, one being light and the other dark. Black top on one subject, and white top on the other subject. The final print's aperture is 5.6 and the time is 6 seconds. The test strip's aperture is 5.6 and the time is 4-6-8 seconds.

This is my third clothes image. There are three subjects is this picture. This creates a pattern among the clothes images I have. One subject for one, two for the second, and three for the third. The final print's aperture is 5.6 and the time is 4-8 seconds (burning was used- 4 seconds on the right side of the image and 8 seconds on the left side). The test strip's aperture is 5.6 and the time is 3-6-9 seconds.

This is my first shoes image. Just like the clothes section of my project, the number of subjects varies throughout the images. This first one has three subjects, while the second and third one have one subject only. The shoes in this image have great detail (they have more on the actual prints than the scanned images), which really makes the shoes stand out. The final print's aperture is 4 and the time is 5 seconds. The test strip's aperture is 4 and the time is 5-10-15 seconds.

This is my second shoes image. The contrast between the first and second shoe changes, as one is in the shadow and the other one is illuminated by the sunlight. The final print's aperture is 4 and the time is 2 seconds. The test strip's aperture is 4 and the time is 2-4-6 seconds.

This is my third shoe image. This picture is great by the way the subject is crouching instead of just standing up like in other pictures. The shoes stand out by the contrast the white part of the shoe has with the jeans, ground, and shirt. The final print's aperture is 4 and the time is 5 seconds. The test print does exist, however it was lost.

DIARY ENTRY

My experience with this project in the dark room has been extremely good. The speed of the work was fast and efficient, which is a great improvement to previous projects which took me much more time to do. The shooting of the pictures went well as well, as all my pictures came out well. The only bad thing was that one of my negatives was lost shortly after developing them, however it wasn't much of a problem.
Previous projects have required less final prints than this one. However it took me less time to do 9 final prints for this project than half the time it took me to do 4 or 6 prints for previous projects. The time was short to finish these 9 prints, which caused pressure to arise in order to do a good job. This experience has served to teach me to work more efficiently and faster.

THEORY NOTES

Shooting in Sunlight- Pictures tend to come out very well in sunlight, as it is an excellent light source to use. But pictures do not always come out well, since there are some situations where the sunlight is too bright, the shadow-light contrast is too high, etc.

• Try to avoid midday or very bright sunlight. The lens is pretty much blinded when faced with extremely bright sunlight, and the image will come out excessively light.
• The sunlight that is considered the best to use for photography is late-day sunlight. There are different types of shots you can take with late-day sunlight that have great effects on images. There is the High three-quarter light where the sun shines at a 45 degree angle over your shoulders and onto the subject. This type of shot looks good for almost any type of subject. A second type of shot is the Sidelight where the sunlight comes onto the subject from either their left or right side. This helps to show more detail in the image, which is great for portrait, building, landscape, and still life pictures. A third type of shot is Frontlight where the sunlight is shining over the subject at a very low angle, which gives off hard, falt light. It is great for getting reflections on water. The last type of shot you can do with late-sunlight that I'll mention, probably one of the greatest types of shot, is the Backlight. This is when the sun shines behind the subject at a low angle. The subject acts a shield for the lens against the sun, and a sort of 'halo effect' takes place.

Shooting in Low Light- When shooting in low light, one of the recommended setting for a camera is an open aperture (lower aperture number), which makes the lens absorb more light. Another good idea is to raise the ISO, as it heightens the sensitivity to light. If you do increase the ISO, you have to be careful to keep a steady hand and not move the camera at all. When the ISO is increased, the sensitivity to movement is also increased, and blurred pictures can come out if the camera shakes while taking the pictures. A tripod is the best help for keeping the camera stable in that situation. Something else to consider while taking photos in low light is to increase the shutter speed, which keeps the shutter open longer to allow more light to come in.

IMAGE BANK

Tony Howell is one of the most famous landscape photographers in England. His images have been used by the BBC, National Geographic, Unicef, and many other known organizations. They have also shown up on countless postcards, calendars, magazines, posters, catalogues, brochures, etc. His landscape images are relevant to my lighting project when sunlight is involved, which is the case for many of his photos.

This is a beach landscape picture taken by Howell using the "Sidelight" type of shot, where the sun comes in from a side to show more detail on the subject.

Ian S. Byrne is a nature and wildlife photographer from the UK. He has won awards for his great photographic skills, including a three star nature exhibition award handed to him by the Photographic Society of America. His photos have been exhibited across the UK, Europe, Australia, and the USA. He keeps on expanding his gallery while teaching others wildlife and nature photography. These types of photography have a lot to do with sunlight since it is used to gain detail of the plants and animals in the images.

This is a wildlife picture taken by Byrne. It uses the sunlight to produce reflections in the water.

James Nader is a UK-based fashion photographer. He has a very high understanding of photography and how to achieve certain effects, and has a great technique. He started his career with still life and commercial photography. Shortly after, digital technology rose up and became dominant, so Nader created his own photograph-screensaver business. It became successful, but Nader lost interest and found a new passion: fashion photography. His image are very clean, as he is very experienced in the digital world and uses Photoshop extremely well. Fashion is the focus of our project, so Nader's work is very relevant to the project.

This is an image taken by Nader. It's focus is the bag, as it really stands out by the way the model is holding it. This image would fit under the accessory category in my project.