3 headed lighting kit.

With three lights, you have enough power to create realistic lighting for a scene, and also avoid any unwanted shadows. This particular setup can be used for numerous lighting scenarios including interview lighting, portraits, headshots, or product photography.Different light modifiers will evoke different feelings. Barndoors can create a dramatic effect or highlight a certain feature on your subject that you may be trying to emphasize. Softboxes give you that nice natural diffused light that makes everything just a bit softer and gives a very flattering look to your subject.You can use a 3 point set up for both indoor and outdoor shoots. However, be advised that you might have to use gels to change the color temperature of the light to achieve the right look depending where you shoot and with what types of lights.As you can see in the diagram, the Key light and Fill lights are at about a 45 degree angle from the camera. The Key light will be the most powerful light source in the scene. You will want to keep the Fill & Back lights at a lower  intensity to compliment the Key by filling in the rest of the light. That way, you will achieve a soft, even light.

Once the Fill light is added, you have a nice even light. The light seems natural and it gives the subject a warm, attractive look. As you can see, you can manipulate the light to achieve different effects and mood.With the addition of a Backlight, the subject is now illuminated a little more and you can see an outline form around your subject, giving them more depth.With just the Key light you will get a lot of shadow across the subjects face and the subject is not fully lit.

Photographer who Inspires me?

Terry Richardson

Terrence "Terry" Richardson  was born August 141965, he is a incredibly famous American fashion photographer, who has photographs quirky images of famous celebrities. Such as Beyonce, Kanye west, Jared Leto, Obama,Robert Downey Jr, Lindsey Lohan , Lady gaga,Ben Stiller and many more. Richardson has produced several award winning campaigns for Diesel, including the ‘Global Warming Ready’ which won a Silver Lion for Print at Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in 2007.Throughout the years he has also produced several private portraits for the company’s founder, Renzo Rosso. His alleged attitude towards models has been criticised by Danish model and filmmaker Rie Rasmussen and others, who have accused Richardson of exploiting models he photographs.But model and actress Noot Seear has defended him, pointing out that he does not pressure those he works with into doing anything they are uncomfortable with. Although Richardson does produce some controversial images but he does create interesting, detailed and quirky photographs. Its not the explicit images that bother or interest me, i like he's style, with out a doubt he's images are imaginative, quirky and interesting. The portraiture is unique and different to any other photographer i know, which is what makes him as popular and famous as he is. In all fairness Richardson's images do not show much photographic 'talent' with the use of light, shadows etc, but overall he's images are interesting and do provoke emotion. Richardson tends to work in black and white, which again makes him more of a unique photographer. He tends to take unique images of different parts of the model, for example their hair, eyes, chest etc. These are usually done up close to again provoke or show emotion. Richardson is known for always pulling a "cheesy grin with two thumps up" wearing a checkered red shirt, with big black goofy classes, which many times are used as props for his models, this again gives a unique and memorable style to his work. Also he always has photographs with containing himself and his models which again most photographers don't do.You can tell Richardson's photographs straight away as they have such a specific feel and style. The setting is mainly always a plain white background which depending on the lighting and shadows makes it a darker or lighter tone. The reason why i think Richardson's uses a plain and basic background is to suggest that the most important element of his images is not the lighting, the setting or formal elements but the actual celebrity he is photographing. Which suggests his main purpose to show and provoke emotion through the models and not by the "photographic formal elements". The reasons why Terry Richardson inspires me is because i want people to look at my photographs and immediately know i took them, i want to have a specific style that makes my images unique and different to anyone else. Although i don't want my photographs to be controversial but i want them to provoke an emotion or feeling. I tend to photograph up close instead of far away which is a thing Richardson's does. For example iinstead of taking a picture of a whole flower in a field, i would rather take an image of the inside of the flower, which i believe gives more tone,texture and meaning.

Light&Water Photographs:

Our aim was to show conflict in our photograph one way or another, we decided to show natural conflict between different seasons, textures and colours. The specific season’s autumn and winter, as it almost looks like they are ‘fighting’ for space, which shows some sort of conflict within the image. I feel that the photograph has quite a ‘violent’ and ‘aggressive’ feeling to it whilst have the soft and blurred effect of the plants leaves going across the image, which contrast with the sharp, detailed and ‘in focus’ winter twig plants in the background of the photograph.  The use of a higher f stop gave us more of a depth of field which connotes a conflict that's never ending and also the use of the blurred background gave the picture a sense of mystery. We decided to have one main 'alive' plant crossing the picture blurred to also connote a sense of mystery but to also create a sense of something disappearing/fading into the rest of the dead twigs etc. Also the 'alive plant' looks like it is trying to escape but is being pulled into the twigs due to the angle of the plant. We tried to let in less light through the aperture to create a 'darkish' background to create a sense of death/evil as winter is when plants etc die. The strong lines of the twigs in the background create a sense of confusion/overwhelming which connotes something trying to take over something which is what we attentionally aimed for.

Henri-Cartier-Bresson photograph analysis -

Subject - The subject of the photograph that I have chosen from the famous photographer Henri-cartier-Bresson could be a vary of different things. No one apart from Bresson himself will know the exact reason and purpose for the photograph. I personally feel this specific landscape image has been taken in a foreign country, likely to be somewhere cold, cultured place for example france? Specific things that suggest this is the misty,cold dullness of the surroundings (dead trees) and the specific style of the buildings as the look old fashion and cultured. The key themes that came to mind when I look at the image is silence, death and division. The fact that the point of the boat look it's leading you into the image, the use of the bridge and the reflection on the water shows the seperation and division of the image. This could connote the difference in lifestyle as there is some sort of factory, workplace building in the centre of the photograph which could connote it's a key subject of the image. The fact that the person running over the bridge is a women could contrast between the male dominance from the workhouse building to the women almost 'galloping' across the bridge. This could connote the lifestyle and duties in men and women and what their specific roles consist of in the particular county and time. Therefor the use of the bridge could suggest the comparison and contrast between women and men. The image gives a extremely lonely feeling by the stillness of the lake to the dullness of the dead trees. Even though the image is black and White it still gives the impression it was set on a cold misty winter morning, which again adds to the mood and feeling of the image.

Content - In the image the main key things I can see that I believe are there for a particular reason is: the bridge, the women, main boat, dead trees and the workhouse/ factory building in the background. The fact that the women is running could suggest she's running to or from something, the point of the end of the boat resembles something sharp which could connote danger. However by the movement of the women it looks almost like she's 'galloping' which could show freedom. This contrast between the factory building which men have built and work at to support them and their families. This could suggest the roles for men and women in the specific country and time. My eyes are particularly drawn to the boat in the centre, as it almost leads you into the picture which has the comparison of a bridge leading you somewhere. The fact that there's no one else apart from the women in the image suggest and creates a sense of loneliness and vulnerability. However on the other hand it could suggest freedom. With the use of the reflection on the water could again show the strong division between women/men and the freedom of a women/male dominance. The main message of the photograph I feel is the strong contrast in lifestyle and gender in that specific time and culture. I feel that the image was set up, to make sure the women and the point of the boat was specifically there to give the particular theme and feeling which gave me the message I got from the photograph.

Form - firstly the photograph is all in focus to suggest all of the different parts of the image is important in giving the audience a specific message and feeling. The image personally doesnt give me a impact as it is a very confusing image which takes time to figure out as the real purpose could be a variety of different things. There is a strong use linear, which instead of being straight the are very curved on one side in the bridge ( boats edges and the bridge itself) compared to the other side where there is the use of straight lines used in the buildings. This again gives of the contrast between men and women and lifestyle in general as indicates the different types on either side of the bridge.
The shapes used are mainly very curved and pointed on one side of the bridge compared to the other where there is bold block like buildings. The use of depth of field shows the importance of specific parts on the photograph being the main boat. Tone is again used to show the contrast, as the right side of the image, which is where the women is running to is very dark and gloomy, compared to the opposite side where the buildings are which give of a lighter tone. This again suggest the contrast as men build houses, they mainly work in bug factories, whereas women don't usually. The fact she's running away from that side suggest she's trying to get away from the 'make dominance and the ' building/work life) and running to the free 'darker nature'. Also the use of texture on the right hand side is more harsher and rough with the ripple of the water more intense and darker and the sharp harsh feel of the dead trees compared to the opposite side.

How to analyse a photograph using...

Subject - The subject of a photograph is almost like the theme of the image,including things like the title and name of the photographer of the specific image. Where it has been taken and why has it been taken specifically there, the genre of the image e.g landscape/portrait etc). Also subject includes what themes have been used in their work and why,

Content - is what you can see in the image and why the photographer has used it, to connote something particular in the image, what is the artist trying to say or convey to the audience are they trying to give a message? For example --->

What's the photographer trying to say through this image,what's the message they want to give? Maybe that parents influence their children in negative ways? By the way the 'father' has his hand gently placed on the boy almost connotes that he's 'proud' by giving him a 'pat' on the boys head. The fact that the adults faces are not shown could show that they are ashamed of themselves and how they have 'brought' up their children but are not 'big' enough to say so?

Has the photographer purposely set up the scene and setting has he planned exactly what they want to photograph and show as a image? Or is it more photojournalism, to show everyday life and situations?

              Form - what us the formal elements that have been used in the image and why?

For example the use of texture, the surface qualities of the artwork.

The use of lines, the actual or implied lines within a composition.

                       The use of tone, describing the darkness and lightness of a photograph.

Also form asks if there is any experimentation with ISO/focus etc,if the image has been manipulated, is it framed, the size and the impact it gives of.
Words that fit in with form : Line,shape,form,tone,colour,space,texture,central,eye path,straight, curved, linear,pace,quite,busy and detailed.

How it all started?

The first permanent photos were created and began the history of photography in the early nineteenth century.The very first colour photograph was created by photographer Thomas Sutton In 1861 using the addictive colour method who was instructed by the James clerk maxwell, the 19th century mathematician.



The very first colour photograph

But before all this there were a number of devices that were used for the same principle,for example before the very first permanent photographs were created there were things like camera lucida,camera obscura and the pinhole camera.Although these images were not permanent they all used the properties of reflection to create images on a surface and most importantly,light.

The first permanent photograph was created by French invented Joseph Niecephore Niepce in 1826, Simply by using a pewter plate coated in bitumen, the material hardened after a eight hour light exposure, the material that stayed soft Was washed away,The plate polished, and there the negative image was created. The plate was then inked and was used to Print paper photographs.

The first permanent photograph

What makes a photograph?

There are many things we need to make a photograph, but the most important one is light, and of course an actual camera. We need light for everything and making a photograph is one of them. A photograph is simple a moment frozen in time.

Natural light photography.

The basic steps of "what makes a photograph"

- press the shutter release button which opens and closes to the light.

- the light reflected of the object is recorded.

- light hits chemical solution on camera film ( silver Halide crystals)

- rays are refracted through the camera lens.

- causing change on photographic film and produces an inverted negative image.

- chemical record is very stable and can be developed, amplified and modified.

- then produces a positive print from the negative object.

What is light?

Light is an electromagnetic radiation that is visible to the human eye, the radiation happens in waves and particles. In simpler terms light happens when all colours from the electromagnetic come together to make white,being light. Visible light is reflected back off an object and is then processed by our eyes and brain.

A stream of massless proton particles each travel at the speed of light using wavelike properties is another way to describe electromagnetic radiation.

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