NEGATIVES

PHOTOGRAPHY

Photography is the procedure and the art of creativity of still or moving pictures by recording radiation upon a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an electronic sensor. Light patterns reflected or emitted from objects activate a sensitive chemical reaction or electronic motioned sensor during a time emitted exposure, usually through a lens. Photography has many uses for business, science, art and pleasure. There are many ongoing genres in photography leading from aerial to commercial.

Film Stills, sometimes called publicity still, is a photograph taken during the interval shooting of a movie or tv-related programmes used for promotional/advertising purposes. Within a film shot, it lists all the vulnerable conventions of a film still, generally a still photograph that will become involved with the set, shooting along side with the filming equipment and the principle photography crew. Using stills can recreate shots from the movie, or create a posed composition that isn’t present within the movie itself, but still contributes with the movie’s world, featuring the dressed actors and set. Cindy Sherman is famous for her posed compositions shots stylised in a commercial way by endorsing simplistic house-work chores in a saucy way particular aimed in a Gil Elvgren pin-up girl fashion.

The Basics Of A Camera

A camera is a device that records images, either as a still photograph or as moving images known as videos or movies. The term comes from camera obscura for ‘‘dark chamber,’’ an early mechanism of projecting images. In photography, a shutter is a device that allows light to pass for a determined period of time, for the purpose of exposing photographic film or a light-sensitive electronic sensor to capture a permanent image of a scene. The lens of a camera captures the light from the subject and brings it to a focus on the film detector. The size of the aperture and the brightness of the scene controls the amount of light that enters the camera during a period of time, and the shutter controls the length of time that the light hits the recording surface. Equivalent exposures can be made with an aperture and with the shutter speed slowed down.

The Birthing of an Pinhole Camera

A Camera Obscura is a portable optical device and plays upon light on reforming images by using a small pinhole to let sunlight through on a light-sensitive piece of film, As a pinhole is made smaller, the image gets sharper, but the projected image becomes dimmer. With too small a pinhole the sharpness again becomes worse due to diffraction. Some practical camera obscuras use a lens rather than a pinhole because it allows a larger aperture, giving a usable brightness while maintaining focus. Light travels in a straight line and when some of the rays reflected from a bright subject pass through a small hole in thin material they do not scatter but cross and reform as an upside down image on a flat surface held parallel to the hole. This law of optics was known in ancient times.

This particular shot is of the atrium. The pinhole camera, it was made from the insides of a pringle can, the way the light captured certain properties within a set composition and as the pringle can was curved, it created a almost fish eye lens effect. I like the secrets behind a camera obscura/pinhole, as every picture you take doesn't actually look like the object or landscape in front of you, but it captures the spirit of the picture, by recording different contrasts and movements.

I do not worship at the altar of sharpness. I find that the soft details and motion blur of the pinhole image are ideal for making images about memory, emotion, or time gone by or catching the motion of life. Sharpness is fine in some images, but I feel that some images actually are better for their lack of sharpness. Focus can be overrated, especially in the marketing-driven world of contemporary digital photography and I personally enjoy looking out for surprises and mystery in the beauty of the blur.

I really enjoyed it and discovered some quite ghostly pictures in the mists of a pringle can, and I love how simplistic it is to do and how peculiar that pictures can be produced by a box or sealed tin, it's ingeniously mad. The photos I produced all had a blurred type-ecstasy feel, most of the pictures were quite dark around the brim of the edges, due to over exposure, but in the end, I actually preferred it that way, it gave the images depth and a sense of silent auntheticness. A pinhole camera is a very simple camera with no lens and a single very small aperture. I think the point of pinhole photography, is to show the world a different way, a new perspective through the distortion of the photograph, the curve it makes, the interesting mistakes and the way the lights create bewildering shapes, as for any digital form of photography, you know on what exactly you are taking, but when taking it on a pinhole, the image remains a indecisive mystery.