Still life

What is a still life?

A still life photograph is of a inanimate object often in small groupings.

A good still life has nice texture, simplicity, and composition.

This is my favorite still life picture because of the shadows.

funny lol's

Photogram

This was my favorite image because of the grays, whites, and blacks being all together.

This makes it a good photogram because there is variation in the shades. 

How can a photogram also be a still life?

             because of the planing and placement of the items.             

   Your also using the same types of objects that u would in a still life.

Daguerreotype

Daguerreotype

What is a Daguerreotype?

A Daguerreotype is a photograph taken by a early photo process using a iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapor. By treating the mettle plate with fumes and making it light-sensitive you could put the plate in a camera and expose it. Then by using the mercury vapor the image will appear.

This is a picture of a Daguerreotype.^                                 ^ this is the camera they used to take the photos 

The Daguerreotype was invented by a man named Louis Daguerre and was introduced in 1839. By 1860 new, less expensive ways to produce more easily viewed images had almost  completely took out the Daguerreotype. In the past few decades the Daguerreotype has been making a small-scale comeback by photographers interested in using early photographic processes.

The steps to making a daguerreotype goes as follows... 

• 1. Polishing
• 2. Sensitization
• 3. Exposure
• 4. Development
• 5. Fixing
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1. To get a better image quality the silver side of the plate had to be polished to a almost perfect mirror finish. The silver had to be free of all tarnish and other contamination when it was sensitized. This meant that the photographer had to do the final portion of polishing not to long before use. The polishing was usually done with a buff covered with hide or velvet.

2. In the dark or using a safelight the silver side was exposed to halogen, iodine, bromine, or chlorine fumes. A final re-fuming with iodine fumes was typical to do.

3. The plate was then carried in a light-tight container to the camera. You would place the plate in the camera and remove the cap/lens to start the exposure. Depending on the fumes used and the lens intensity of light it could take from a few seconds to  many minutes. When the exposure is finished the plate was removed and put in the container again.

4. The image would appear after around 7 minutes of exposure to fumes from heated mercury in a special developing box. The fact about the toxic state of the mercury was known of but not taken seriously in the 19th century. Later a safer method of development was made for the daguerreotype.

5. After development the light sensitivity of the plate was taken away by using a mild solution of sodium thiosulfate. Gliding also known as Gold Toning was another process that soon became stranded procedure. To give the steely gray image a slightly warmer tone and physically reinforce the powder-like silver particles of which it was composed, a gold chloride solution was pooled onto the surface and the plate was briefly heated over a flame, then drained, rinsed and dried. 

*This is a link to a video on the making of a daguerreotype: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0SJny1Wq8c
*Funny song of Daguerreotypes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UqC6n2jwu4

If the links don't work just copy and paste it in google.

Shallow depth of field COME AGAIN :D

Shallow D.O.P 

We'll just say...these were meant to deep D.O.P.

Extras?

thank you plz come again :D

Spring

Camera Pictures.

Phone photos.

Shutter speed (fast shutter)

Fast Shutter Good Copies:

Extras:

Shutter speed (slow shutter)

Juxtaposition

Simplicity

Simplicity