Bokeh

This is a brilliant example of the photograph I wanted to achieve, but my heart making skills lacked, and ended up with this image, only the hearts were nowhere to be seen!  With my attempt, the heart shaped lens cap I had placed at the end of my camera was too large, meaning when I tried to zoom in to blur the lights out and create the heart shaped effect, all I got back was circular blurs of light.  This means next time, to improve my work, I'll have to reduce the size of the heart I cut out to successfully blur out the lights.

Weekly Shots

Photo Analysis - Iconic Image

Cyanotypes

Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue pint.  Engineers used this process in the 20th century to produce copies of drawings, as this method is very cheap, and these are referred to now as blueprints.  This process uses two chemicals;  Ammonium iron citrate and potassium ferricyanide.

Examples of this process are seen below.

An example of the cyanotype I created is seen here.

Chemigrams

To create this effect seen below, all you need is photographic paper, developer, and fixer.  Firstly, you need to paint/draw/do pretty much whatever you want with the fixer onto the photographic paper.  Once you have done this, place the image into some water for a couple of seconds, then put it straight into the developer.  For a few minutes, you need to 'agitate' the fixer, and to do this you need to move/create mini waves whilst it's in the developer, and this is the bit that actually makes the image develop onto the photographic paper.

  You may also have seen similar things which are 'taken' using objects instead of fixer, for example, see images below.

Pinhole Cameras

What is a pinhole camera?

  A pinhole camera, also known as camera obscura, or "dark chamber", is a simple optical imaging device in the shape of a closed box or chamber. In one of its sides is a small hole which, via the use of light, creates an image of the outside space on the opposite side of the box, and this is where the square/rectangular piece of film will be placed.

Different examples of pinhole cameras

Holga 120 3D Stereo Pinhole Camera

ONDU 135 Pocket Pinhole Camera

Home Made Pinhole Camera

Pinhole Photography

Materials needed to make a pinhole camera

  To make a pinhole camera, you will need:

- matchbox

- electrical tape

- reel of 35mm film

- old 35mm film spool

- marker pen

- drinks can

- craft knife

- pair of scissors

Process of how to make a pinhole camera

Long Exposure

  With all of the following photographs, I took them in complete darkness using an ISO of 3200, a shutter speed of 10 seconds, and an aperture of f/8.

  To take these, the equipment I used was a tripod which was set fairly low to the ground to capture the whole movement of the light.  I also used a 'lightsaber' to create the patterns which you see below.  No other equipment was needed (other than the camera obviously) to complete this long exposure shoot, as it took place in my back garden.

  These are a some others that I captured which are along the same lines (I didn't like these ones as much, which is why they are apart of my contact sheet instead of being part of my final product).