FSA in Color

Leica M8 Camera

ACPP Notes

Rutland Water

• Shot with Holga on Tri-X 400 
• Push processed to 3200 with Kodak D76
• Scanned from print

Voigtlander 25mm Color Skopar f4 M Lens

Durst Neonon f/5.6 80mm Enlarger Lens

Camera: Panasonic L10 with Leica 28-100mm

Photographer: Thomas Struth

How Film is Made

Photography in Film: Flags of our Fathers

• Essay - Harvard Referencing Style
• Revisionist westerns - darker in tone/more troubles/apologetic (to native american)
• Flags of our Fathers
• Eastwood a huge fan of John Ford
• Raising of the Flag - Photo by Joe Rosenthal
• Fenton, Brady, Capa, Lee Miller, Kevin Carter
• 'Before the Rain', Salvador, Killing Fields, Apocalypse Now
• Assignment 13th January
• Read around the subject
• Notions of truth, memory, identity
• Sontag, Berger, etc
• Framework - starting point
• Don't tell me what happens! Assume reader knows the film.
• Discuss, argue, engaging, interesting
• Bibliography - internet sources ok, but balanced

Documenting the Real: The British Tradition

• Semi-Detached viewing?
• Standardisation/Differentiation
• Is there still an appetite?
• Brandt - indicative of the British tradition
• Subjects are given a value (by being photographed)
• Mannerism (assists with Man Ray)
• Roger Mayne 
• Medium is being fore-grounded (modernism)
• The Street
• Outsider coming in
• Tony Ray Jones
• The English at the seaside
• Some photos are funny but he is not making fun
• Chris Killip
• Not political or idealogical
• Zak Waters 
• On the Road
• Is always in project
• Barrier between camera and subject (becomes thematic)
• Iconography

Bronica ETRSi

ADI: Aperture II

• Shortcuts - i inspector, f full screen
• ALT+SHIFT+H - Highlight Hot & Cold
• Enhance - Global
• Definital - local therefore more subtle
• Adjustment HUD is in workflow order
• Color correction affects the shadows only
• Levels
• Never desaturate for B&W conversion
• When you adjust B&W sliders they must add up to 100% for a balanced image
• Viewer Mode>Compare
• Enhance>Tint
• Curves - more detailed correction than levels
• Beware of saturating skin tones
• Use PSD 8-bit for external editing

APDP: Colour Film & Filters

• Subtle adjustments
• Use opposite colour to balance light
• Tungsten lighting
• Filter for the predominant light source when light is mixed
• Florescent lighting
• Use gels
• When using film everything works different as using a negative
• Overexpose to increase contrast in colour film
• Out-of-date slide film to shoot

Photographer: Roger Fenton

Photographer: Yousuf Karsh

Photography in Film: Documentary II

• Sally Mann - 'What Remains'
• Documentary gives us a film about a still subject
• Who is the auteur of the film?
• Filmmaker making a film about a photographer who they are a fan of
• (A scholar of Mann's work)
• Perspective of the filmed (through Mann's camera)
• What, Why, How?
• Emphasis on the locale
• Endorsement
• The things that are close to you - best
• Make art out of the ordinary
• 'Art is everywhere'
• Explore project from two different angles
• End show with uplift - living faces at 'death show'

Documenting the Real: The Photo Essay Seminar

• Agee - Photos were later printed as part of book
• HCB text? Always some text
• Equality text & photos
• Henry - Vietnam - TV War
• Contemporary -Different types of medium. Diegetic sound

ACPP: Portraiture

• Portrait Prize - No-one smiling - Criticism
• August Sander
• Structured way of recording
• Recording different types
• Grouped - Professions/Artists/The Last People
• 'The face of our time' - started 1904
• Dead-pan style
• Photographic inventory - 'Science & Art'
• Available light only
• Photographed the people who were on the periphery
• Circus performers/Disables - Not popular with the Nazis
• Published after the end of Nazi-Germany
• Treated everyone the same, not just poor or rich
• Charlotte Cotton - deadpan aesthetic
• Sander work was reaction to expressionism
• Rineke Djikstra
• Photographed subjects at times of change
• Nothing for the viewer to work our
• Similar pictures, difference are highlighted more
• 'On editing' - video, photographs of friends
• Simon Roberts - 'Motherland'
• Avoids cliches
• Subtle
• 5000 images edited for book
• Website for feedback and new ideas
• Joss McKinley
• Ability to interpret light
• Exposed only for highlights - mood to image
• Don't be afraid of too much shadow
• Deliberately under-exposes film

ADI - Aperture II

• Import
• Import Settings
• Export Settings
• Create a Preset for our metadata
• Preview Prefs > Choose Asterisk
• Working with RAW images
• RAW fine tuning
• F = Full screen, H = HUD (Heads Up Display)
• View > Hot & Cold, do not remove completely as image will flatten but use recovery and black point to balance them
• Color Clipping - Yellow = Clipping in Red & Green
• White = Clipping in All channels
• Lift & Stamp - apply adjustment to all selected images
• Back Up, Back Up, Back Up
• Vault > Add Vault

APDP: B&W Filters

1. No filter - 1/4 @ f/11 
2. 21 Orange - 1/2 @ f/11
3. 23 Orange - 1s @ f/8
4. 15 Yellow - 1/2 @ f/11
5. 11 Green - 1/2 @ f/11
6. No filter - 1/8 @ f/11
7. 11 Green - 1/4 @ f/11
8. 23 Orange - 1/2 @ f/11
9. 21 Orange - 1/4 @ f/11
10. 15 Yellow - 1/4 @ f/11
11. 11 Green - 1/4 @ f/11
12. 11 Green - 1/8 @ f/11 Underexposed

Using Ilford Delta 125 (@ 100 iso)

Photography in Film: Documentary I

• Sally Mann Film - 'What Remains'
• Annie Leibovitz - 'Life Through a Lens'
• Produced by allies!
• Acutely visually aware
• How does filmmaker remain auteur or does the subject take control?
• Rather than looking at them we are looking through them at the world
• Show from viewpoint = Take the viewpoint
• Less critical of the subject
• Leibovitz - highly cinematic
• Biography
• Commands & manipulates the subject
• She has a vision. She is an auteur in her own right
• Life & work are inseperable
• Prolific docementation
• Simple ideas
• Deep breath and move on
• Vanity Fair cover - her work
• The Edward Steichen of vanity Fair
• Talent - she provokes people
• Susan Sontag - complemented each other
• Sometimes you just get a persona

Documenting the Real: The Photo Essay II

• Margaret Bourke-White - 'Louisville Flood' 1937
• Life Magazine front cover
• Knowingly constructed the image
• Dignity & Order as opposed to disorder
• Political, Keno-eye to Keno-fist
• The Decisive Moment - HCB
• Knowing with intuition - HCB
• Tyler Hicks - the decisive moment?
• Manipulative sounds
• Image & Sound endorse each other
• Magnum in Motion
• Bruce Gilden - Hybrid - Sound carries us through

Photographer: Harry Borden

Amazing Portrait Photographs

Portrait by Zoltan Huzsti

Kodak D-76 Developer

Started using Kodak D-76 developer today. Negatives look good with more contrast, will makes some prints tomorrow. 

Parrworld

Being Stephen Shore

Inspirational Quote: Martin Parr

Work hard and connect with you subject - that is, in everyway, emotionally and spiritually...

Photographer: Michael Ackerman

APDP - Tutorials

• Tutorials
• Essay
• Introduction
• Make Your Argument
• Back It Up
• Conclude
• Steering away from Ansel Adams - do I agree with statement?
• Print methods - not too much emphasis

ADI - Aperture I

• Use of metadata
• EXIF from camera
• IPTC via Aperture
• Orphan Works & The Digital Economy Bill
• Setting up metadata upon import
• Government launches online copyright inquiry

ACPP: Environmental Portraits - Notes

Documenting the Real: The Photo Essay I

• James Agee & Walker Evans - 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men'
• Margaret Bourke-White - 'A Portrait of Myself'
• Looking at Life Magazine
• Susan Sontag - 'Regarding the Pain of Others'
• Ernst Friedrich - 'War Against War'
• Next Week - Series of Photo Essays
• Magnum in Motion
• Films or slide-shows
• Think of sequence, use of sound (non-diegetic)
• Diegetic - of that world (non-diegetic - not of this world)
• What does adding non-diegetic sound do for us?
• James Agee - 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men'
• A documentary, this is a Political Book
• Stills Camera & The Printed Word
• The photographs and text are co-equal, mutually independent and fully collaborative
• These are not illustrations
• Agee & Evans - Road Trip - Writer & Photographer
• Evans was regarded as an essayist in his own right
• Depression, dust-bowl, Southern USA
• What is a Photo-Essay?
• it's a set of images that seek to tell a story, often but not always supported by text
• Usually sequential (insinuated/inserted photos into text)
• All photo essays are a collection of photographs but not all collections of photographs are photo essays
• Need to make an argument to turn collection of photographs into photo essay
• Ernst Friedrich collates a series of photographs
• Wasn't a photographer himself
• He wasn't a commisioning editor
• Pulls images together to make an essay
• Work is categorical in its form
• Book ' War Against War' is polemic
• Booked was banned, but went through ten editions by 1939
• As a polemic it fails - Outbreak of WWII
• Susan Sontag reading from 'War Against War'
• Photography as shock therapy
• Photographs have text (in four languages)
• Families told that victims were dead (Asylums and Sanctuaries)
• Friedrich brought the unseen into the seen
• Governments led counter arguments 'A Just War'
• 'The Dissenting Voice' as opposed to 'The Official Voice'
• Agee & Adams were embedded with the families
• They stay with three families - Triangulation
• James Curtis writes about Evans' work
• Not merely observing - giving subject space to reveal themselves
• Government sponsorship
• To document part of a nation at a particular time
• Life & Time magazines had massive circulation
• Evans' photography was very contemporary
• A mediated image - through the photographer (also camera & Editor)
• The 'Photographer' is a 'Recorder'
• Alan Trachtenberg - 'Essay on Photography'
• Version of reality/Interpretation
• Process of intervention can continue to darkroom
• Dorothea Lange
• Sequence of images
• Who is the audience?
• Margaret Bourke-White
• Made her money in advertising
• Life changing moment
• Life Magazine published FSA images
• Magazines shape and influence
• Editors modified images by the written word
• Concern for accompanying text

Photography in Film - Seminar: La Jetée

• Original language
• Lack of silence
• Minor key music
• Heartbeat speeds up as do transitions
• Whispering in German
• Key statements made while picture is black
• Emphasis on sound
• 'Museum of His Memory'
• Dateless world
• Peaceful music - endlessness
• Photography is the past
• Cinema is moving and thus the present
• Cinematic
• Look at remake (12 Monkeys) & Vertigo
• Recreating something from the past
• Told from the future
• Time travel makes you nostalgic for the present
• Aid to memory
• Pensive spectator
• People looking at photographs are 'pensive'
• people looking at cinema are 'rushed'
• Different forms of photography - less light in the future
• Noir (ish)
• Who has taken the photos - he is being tracked or he has taken
• Voyeur photos
• The definition is only ever produced in the present
• Future - through and down
• Abstract streets (1000s)
• Portraits
• Future 
• Utopia - clean, highly polished
• Dystopia - Dark & ruins
• Show less - Imagine more
• Presenting as photographs given to memory
• Last Year in Marienbad - Alain Resnais
• Film: Hiroshima Mon Amour - Alain Resnais
• Film is still a young art form
• All five questions are relavant

Photographer: Mark Power

ACPP - Wear Good Shoes

• Working in Project
• Next week - Individual Tutorials 20mins
• Film Processing up and running - To Marcus by Tuesday
• CF08 Booked to us Thursday Mornings
• Location Lighting
• Alec Soth - 2 Questions to Magnum Photographers
• Abbas - Wear Good Shoes & Fall in Love
• Chris Steele-Perkins - what interests you
• Mark Power - discovery & being nosey
• Fact & Documentary
• Producing a 'book' of work - consistent - your voice
• Need to be tied together in some way
• Visual language or subject matter
• Long-term projects
• Carry on mini projects after deadline
• 'The Sound of Two Songs' - Mark Power
• 'The Shipping Forecast" - Mark Power
• How to find an idea - when it's right in front of you
• Thinking of the end game
• Start low key and locally - Develop Visual language
• Then Invest Time & Money doing the rest
• Spontaneity - Imagination - Reality (Tension creates stronger images)
• Maps!
• '26 Different Endings'
• Gregory Crewdson - Fine Art & Commercial (Crossover)
• Story Telling
• Similar - Jeff Wall, Phil Lorca diCorcia, Tom Hunter, Sam Taylor-Wood
• 'The Twilight Series' - Gregory Crewdson
• Suburbia, Paranoia, Claustrophobia
• Hires Director of Photographer
• Meaning through Light
• Familiar to Strange (Tension)
• 'Brief Encounter'
• Location Scouting

Could You Survive Two Years Without A Paycheck?

"Don’t spend time comparing yourself to other photographers who might be more successful than you. So what? They aren’t part of your equation. You just have to put in the time, be patient, develop a strategy to survive the lean years, and move on. At the end of the tunnel, there is a light…" [Scott Bourne]

Digital Grey Kard

Finally after waiting three weeks for delivery my 'Grey Card' arrived. So now I can achieve better white balance from my RAW files.

British Journal of Photography: Lisa Devlin Wins Wedding Photography Prize

Amateur Photographer: Watchdog Warns Photographers Over Street Pictures

If a person 'actively objects' to having their picture taken in a public place then photographers should not publish that image, the privacy watchdog has warned. 

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) was responding to an enquiry by Amateur Photographer after the watchdog said it has been contacted by people concerned over photos taken without permission and posted on the internet. 

While the watchdog said the Data Protection Act 'in no way' prevents people taking photos in public and publishing them, an ICO spokesman told AP: 'However, some circumstances will require photographers to exercise judgement on the taking and publishing of photographs. 

'If an individual actively objects to having their photo taken or if a photograph is taken without an individual's consent in circumstances which could clearly cause them distress or embarrassment, then it is good practice not to use that image.' 

While the ICO this week said it has no plans to issue 'specific guidance' on the use of photographs, the spokesman added: 'However, the publication of photos online is part of a wider issue about individuals' use of the internet which is an issue we are looking at.' 

Section 36 of the Data Protection Act 1998 provides an exemption for anyone processing personal data – which includes taking and publishing photographs – purely for 'personal, family or household affairs'. This specifically includes 'recreational purposes'. 

The spokesman added: '[The Data Protection Act] does not stipulate that photographers, whether professional or amateur, must gain the consent or everyone they photograph before they publish photos. 

'Professional and amateur photographers taking photos in the street, at a festival or at a football match, for example, do not need to obtain the consent of the individuals who appear in their photos.' 

ADI - Image & Text II

• Martin Parr - Photographer, Film Maker, Curator, Judge in reality TV show
• Photo Book is tactile, anyone can do
• William Klein - NYC (1954)
• Moryami?
• Alec Soth - Sleeping by the Mississippi - Books & Website style
• Blurb books & profiles
• International Artist
• David Goldblatt
• UK Photographers Marginalised
• Symbol/logo
• 'Think of England' Parr as filmmaker
• Moving into film shorts
• Parrword
• RAW images for next week (12)

APDP - Darkroom Printing 120 Negatives

• Emulsion side down
• Upside down in negative holder
• Avoiding marks
• Focus finder again
• Test strips
• Choosing the right negative!
• What is missing can tell you a lot about a photograph

Environmental Portraits Research Mind Mapping