This week the task was to customize a wordpress site. I have customized my portfolio page. It took me quite some time to get my head around WordPress, so this LA is late. I have had lots of AHA moments and my share of frustration, but I made it. My site is customized but far from done!
A link to my portfolio site: Seventy29 design
A pdf with notes from the process:
The word Photography comes from the greek words photos (light) and graphein (to draw), so photography is essentially “drawing with light”. Photography is essentially drawing with light. Without light we wouldn’t be able to create a photograph. As part of the Learning Activity Digging Deeper Into the History of Photography I have collected 3 events from the history of photography. (This blog post is an answer to question 1)
The tintype was introduced in the mid-19th century. Originating in France during 1854, the tintype was first patented in the USA during February 1856 and in England during December of the same year. Tin types was images created on a metal plate coated in silver iodine which is sensitive to light. Tintypes is a variation of the ambrotype, which was a image made on glass, instead of metal. Tintypes was a negative in its chemical formation, but made to appear positive by the black plate. The exposure time for the tintype was a couple of minutes.
The tintypes was very popular. They did not preform as well as the dangurreotypes made on copper plates, but they were durable, easy to make and much cheaper. This made them popular among Civil War soldiers, immigrants and working people in general. Now the general public could have their pictures taken.
The first flexible film roll was introduced by the American Geroge Eastman in 1883. Eastman had experimented with the use of a lighter and more felxible support for the photograps than glass and metal. He first coated the photographic emulsion on paper and then loaded the paper in a roll holder. He found that paper was not entierly satisfactory as a carrier for the emolusion bacause the grain of the paper was likely to be transfered to the photo. He came up with the solution to coat the paper with a thin layer of soluble gelatin, and then a layer of light sensitive soluble gelatine
Eastman’s experiments were directed to the use of a lighter and more flexible support than glass. His first approach was to coat the photographic emulsion on paper and then load the paper in a roll holder. The holder was used in view cameras in place of the holders for glass plates.
In 1883, Eastman startled the trade with the announcement of film in rolls, with the roll holder adaptable to nearly every plate Camera on the market.
The first film advertisements in 1885 stated that “shortly there will be introduced a new sensitive film which it is believed will prove an economical and convenient substitute for glass dry plates both for outdoor and studio work.”
This system of photography using roll holders was immediately successful. However, paper was not entirely satisfactory as a carrier for the emulsion because the grain of the paper was likely to be reproduced in the photo. After the photo was created, the gelatin bearing the image was stripped from the paper, and transferred to a sheet of clear gelatin, and varnished with collodion — a cellulose solution that forms tough, flexible film.
Eastman and his company launced the KODAK Camera in 1888, this made the foundation for making photography available to everyone. Pre-loaded with enough film for 100 exposures, the camera could be easily carried and handheld during operation. It was priced at $25. After exposure, the whole camera was returned to the company in Rochester. There the film was developed, prints were made and new film was inserted — all for $10.
Woman with camera 1910
The first Kodak camera, introduced in 1888, sold for $25, loaded with enough Eastman film for 100 exposures. Not dated.
It was Scottish physicist and poet James Clerk Maxwell who in 1861 produced the first true color photograph – one that didn’t fade immediately or need color adding afterwards by hand. Or the sources I found differs a bit with wikipedia stating that “the first color photograph produced by Thomas Sutton for a Maxwell lecture in 1861″. However Maxwell was the one to develop the technique wanting to demonstrate how the eye process coloure.
Maxwells experiments were taking three photos, of the same object, on three different glass plates, useing three different colour filters. One red, one green and one blue. When he then projected the three images unto the wall in the exact same time it then produced a picture in color.
Today, the three physical plates that together made up the world’s first color photograph reside in Maxwell’s former home in Edinburgh (now a museum)
In color photography, electronic sensors or light-sensitive chemicals record color information at the time of exposure. The recorded information is then used to reproduce the original colors by mixing various proportions of red, green and blue light.
Decades later, in the beginning of the 20th century, color photography had developed sufficiently to allow landscape photographs to be taken, as the exposure time was around 30 minutes.
Sanger Shepherd process and the autochrome
Sarah Agelina Acland was an English pioneer that took a number of artful photographs useing the Sanger Shepherd method. The Sanger Shepherd method was a complicated method for taking color photographs. This process uses the same basis of color filters as James Maxwells process and was technically demanding and time consuming.
A Portrait Outdoors shows Miss Acland’s goddaughter Mary Agnes Brinton on the steps of Clevedon House, Oxford.
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I chose the words distortion and migration from the list of words. Migration since it is a part of everything. Movement of large groups of people have been part of our history from the beginning. The migration of birds have also fascinated me since I’m from a place where most of the birds migrate thousands of kilometers each winter, and return in spring. I chose distortion because I thought it would be fun to see what one could do in Adobe Illustrator to distort and image.
I chose the font Acumin pro. The font has many variations and i chose to use 3 different variations of the same font for my final artwork.
Sketches, ideas and one photo
Link to final artwork in A4 format: DISTORTION
For the word migration I had an idea early that I wold like to show the movement of people and birds. However I ended with two different compositions one for people and one for birds. The sketches and print screen pictures in the slide show how I worked with both the different ideas.
The final composition I thought was best you will find here: Migration
OPALIH
Opalih is my own word. It is put together by the words Opaque meaning dense, heavy or not transparent, and light, as in light weight. It means heavy becoming lighter. Its the process of losing weight when changing form. Its is what happens before the visible transformation, like for example when water evaporates. The dense and heavy becomeing lighter, that is Opalih.
Scketches
Inspired by Ina Saltz Lynda course chose to use one of the fonts that she mentions early in the course Bicham Script pro. She talks about the different variations of lower case h. Since Opalih ends with h I thouht an elegant and light h with lots of swirls would be perfect to show the lightness at the end of the process and also the word Opalih.
Final composition in A4 format: Opalih
A man i replacing a wheel on his car, when he accidentally loses the four nuts used to hold the wheel on the car. They fall into a deep drain, irretrievably lost. A passing girl offers him a solution that allows him to drive home.
Answer: The girl lets him drive her car. They live together so they´re going the same way anyway! If that´s not so, she could also advice him to take one nut from each of the remaining tires. That would leave him with 3 nuts (nuts? issn´t it called bolts?) on each tire. He have to drive carefully and strait to home!
Two Russians walk down a street in Moscow. One Russian is the father of the other Russian´s son. How are they related?
Answer: They are happily married! On Russian is the mother and the other is the father.
What occur once in June, once in July and twice in August?
Answer: The letter U.
Six drinking glasses stand in a row. With the first three glasses full and the next three empty. How can you move and handle the glasses so that no full glass stands next to another full glass, and no empty glass stands next to another empty glass? What is the minimum number of moves to solve this puzzle?
Answer: Lift the second glass full of water and poor the water into the second empty glass, put the now empty glass down in the middle of the two full glasses. 1 move is needed.
My reflective journal 