Anderson pedals is a new business started by James Anderson. He’s creating guitar pedals, and needed imagery for advertising. He has asked me to do product photography, a logo and website work. Starting here:
First attempt on white card with two 50 watt outdoor lights. Camera – Nikon D5000
Failed white balance:
Single parts:
Pedals on ‘shim’-
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Mix media – photography and intaglio dry point print. Same image, edited together on photoshop.
Two digital photos – One taken at Gooseholme, the portrait taken in a studio:
Two digital photos – Landscape taken in Windermere, portrait taken in a studio.
Edit of Beth. Blue bell background: 
Summer
Lino Print, landscape picture (taken with film camera):
Edit – layers and paintbrush. Then I added figures: Joining line too obvious. Drawing and Morcambe sunset:
Digital photograph of Ewan layered with drawing:
Photogram:
I don’t have photoshop at home, so I used GIMP to layer these images together:
Photogram “think” and picture of Sarah that I took at her home.
The local ska band/collective ‘Bad Transmission’ were playing for Riot Jazz’s after party held in Ulverston’s club, The Sun.
They asked me if I could come to their band practice before hand and take some promotional pictures.
Issues I encountered:
Only 2 out of the 8 strip lights worked, this made keeping a level light balance hard.
Two of the walls were painted “white”, two were painted yellow. White balance was difficult.
It being a ska band, people dance and moved a a lot as they played. Many pictures I took had motion blur.
I thought I was just going at the beginning of the practice to take one group photo and leave, but the band were very preoccupied with the gig they had that evening, so instead I wandered around as they played and took 1 or 2 group pictures while stood precariously on chairs/tables.
Here are the images in colour:
Here are the images in black&white:
These images are now being used on Bad Transmissions facebook page and one was featured in the Evening Mail today (I’ll upload a better picture later):
In relation to my current art project, I would like to involve a few of these images as tried to capture the mood in some of the pictures, which is a main part of my project.
I particularly like this image as Ben is looking at Jenny.
Lee Jeffries, “What we are”:
Lee Jeffries lives in Manchester. He began photography professionally when close to the footballers. One day he took a photo of a homeless girl sleeping and took a turn in his photography style, taking photos of homeless people around the world. Finding out their stories and working towards portraying the beauty of the world.
How to darkroom:
Once on the side of the darkroom with the developing chemicals, you do not cross back over to the other side until your image/paper is in the drying rack.
Do not mix any of the baths – developing acids, bleach baths, developers or fixers.
Health and safety:
Harmful chemicals in the darkroom can enter our bodies through breathing, consumption and bodily contact. We must keep this in mind when working in the darkroom.
No eating or drinking in the darkroom.
Avoid the corrosive chemicals touching skin or clothing. Make sure not to drop the photographic paper in chemicals creating a splash.
Avoid physical contact with chemicals- use tongs.
Obviously – no smoking.
If you spill a chemical or any fluid on the floor, clean it up as soon as possible/warn people to avoid accidents.
Although some people will be unaffected by slight intake of particles, asthmatics will have to pay more attention to ventilation levels.
Preparation.
We will have the opportunity to use a white background and flash lighting (a typical photo studio) to take pictures under the given brief – “Personality”:
My theme – Moods/emotion while including nature.
Minimum – 30 good photos. Final of 10.
Maximum – non.
Time period – 1hr > Last min change = half an hour.
Ideas:
– Portraits in studio which i will later edit to create multiple exposures.
– Bring in film camera to do un-edited multiple exposures.
-Project imagery onto the white background, over lapping on people.
-To show the emotion of anger, maybe someone smashing things.
-To show someone being upset get the model with make up on so they look beaten up. (Can anyone cry on demand?).
Research:
-How to take flash strobe photos.
-Double exposures digitally and manually.
-Check with Barry about smashing things. Will this include a risk assessment? Others want to do it too, will this make it more likely to happen? Bring ‘Steve’.
-Watch ‘Worlds end Dancehall – Juby Phonic – P feat. ham.’. I’m going to be playing “Luken” for Leah’s photography.
-Bring flute, mic, guitar for Amber.
-Bring white and black clothes for Sams photos.
Inspiration:
Photography fail:
Firstly, the bulb for the light needed changing but we didn’t notice, so wasted time on settings before getting it replaced.
Secondly, we couldn’t get my camera to work with the light set up. Settings didn’t work at all and images were coming out really dark. So I changed to a college camera.
I still couldn’t get the camera settings working, so I asked for help:
After just about getting there, the camera died and I had run well over my 30min time slot. Quiet angered, I cleaned up some leaves with a dodgy broken broom and pretended to be a dead person for Sam’s photo shoot.
After this, I grabbed Vin and set up another college camera.
We nearly got there with the settings this time, but things still went topot. After accidentally setting a stupidly long shutter speed (the last image) we decided to walk away and get lunch.
These, if any, I’ll hopefully be able to work with for now:
Plan to fix my predicament –
Setting up white back drop at home with stage lighting (stuff we have, so it may be possible to pull off),
Take some out-door pictures of nature in the mean time
I went to a friends house and asked her to act out some different emotions. I wanted to use these to create double exposures related to the theme “Nature and emotions”:
Using these pictures I tried creating double exposure edits:
-This is when my camera died, but I took a few more pictures on Sam’s Cannon:
First image was taken on a Canon with slight zoom.
The last 3 images were taken on a tripod with a long shutter speed in order to create the blurred effect.
Additional photos:
Shutter speed –
18/11/13
Firstly – ‘Photography’ is a combination of two Latin words. “Photo” is derived from the word “photos” which means “light”, and “graphis” which means “mark maker”. So photography does not necessarily mean an image we create with film, but can also mean marks made with light.
History of photography Timeline:
Pre 16th century: “Camera obscuras” were used to project live imagery onto walls to trace from. This was done by having a completely darkened/black room with only a pinhole of light coming through. This would act as a lens re-creating the imagery of what was on the other side of the pinhole, and projecting it onto the black wall. Due to there being no mirror system in the ‘camera obscura’ system, the image would be upside down. Artists over came this obstacle by turning their artworks upside down/the right way round.
16th – 17th century : The camera obscuras were improved by enlarging the pinhole and inserting telescoping lenses. They were in frequent use by many artists up until the 17th century. Although these were not photographs as we see them, the obscura gave many renaissance artists the ability to trace more accurately for their amazing pieces of art.
1727: Professor J. Schulze (1687 – 1744) mixed chalk, nitric acid and silver salts (chloride and nitrate) and noticed that it would darken under light. This created a photo-sensitive compound, creating the first accidental photograph.
1800: Thomas Wedgwood (1771-1805) “Sun pictures”. Wedgwood adapted Schulze’s findings and began capturing images on leather coated with the silver salt chemicals with flowers/leaves placed on top. This only created silhouettes.
1816: Nicephore Niepce combined the camera obscura with photosensitive paper silversalts had created. He then continued to create a permanent image 10 years later.
1834: Henry Fox Tablot, British (1800- 1877), fixes the images onto the paper by using a salt solution. He created the positive part of the image by printing onto another sheet on paper.
Photographers to research:
William Fox Talbert, British (1800- 1877),
Lois Mande, French (1787 – 1851),
Lewis Carroll, English (1832 -1898),
Edward Muybridge, English (1830 – 1904),
Etienne-Jules Marey,
Roger Fenton,
Fedrik H Evans,
Many Ray,
Lee Miller,
Robert Capa.
Nikon Settings & how a camera works:
Two images edited together:
Rowan Borthwick 
