Pre-work Project 7

Daguerreotype 

Daniel Kuczynski
To create a daguerreotype start with polishing a silver-coated copper plate, until it's almost mirror-like. Sensitize the plate in a dark room with iodine and expose the plate to mercury vapor. Once developed, immerse it in a solution of hyposulphite soda. Lastly the print is coated in a leaf of pure gold and admired usually in a glass frame. 

Cyanotype
Egill Ibsen
Potassium ferricyanide and Ferric ammonium citrate (green) each are separately mixed with water to create an aqueous solution. Then they are blended together equally. Using watercolor or printmaking paper paint on the solution and dry in a dark room. Negatives are placed on the paper to make a print. Rinse the print in water and dry. This creates a print with white tones on a blue background. 

Tricolor gum bichromate

Jalo Porkkala

A Gum bichromate is a 19th-century photographic printing process based on the light sensitivity of dichromates.  To create a gum bichromate you would use a multi-layered printing process.  Using a watercolor or printmaking paper, each color layer is coated, registered, exposed to light, and washed. The print is then floating face down in a bath of room-temperature water to allow the gum, excess dichromate, and color pigment to wash away. Several changes of water bath are necessary to clear the print. After, the print is hung to dry. When all layers are complete and dry, a clearing bath of sodium metabisulfite is used to extract any remaining dichromate.

Multiple Image Techniques

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After

I took this picture on a bright sunny day on the top of my building, which looks over downtown Portland and the Pearl District. I chose this picture for my HDR photo, because I knew the many different colors would pop out, in a strange but exciting way. The branch gives the picture a nature feel, though with the HDR edit, it looks almost like an X ray of an individual’s bone. I liked the way the sky changed into three warm colors from a cooler blue color. The sky now resembles that of a flag. The buildings contrast the bold sky with a bright shiny look, similar to that of the branch. To create the HDR I used five different exposures and kept my camera in the same spot on the railing.

Before

After 

Because I found the first HDR to be easy to create, I decided to make another one, using a photo with a just as many colors as found in the city. This photo I took under a bright light in my home. I changed the exposure and created the HDR. The HDR photo enhances the colors of the pens even more and changes the boring color of the tin can into an array of different colors, contrasting to the pens.

For my layer picture I chose an old church with beautiful architecture throughout. I took photos of the church from every angle and each side of the church. The layers bring out the stained glass window, so that there is more than just one. The lamp post gives the picture a modern feel, while the branches give the feeling that the church is located in a forest. The arch ways are lined up in a way that makes it look as if there are many floors to the building. I also liked how the bricks and the red flowers added a pop of color to the image, showing it to be a perfect location for a wedding ceremony.

I also chose my dog for a subject in a layered photo. Knowing the layered image should have the same subject in a lot of different forms, I chose my puppy who constantly moves around. It was hard to get her to look at me, but with the combination of her looking and not looking at me I felt the photo was better. Her collar, like the roses and bricks in the image above, give a pop of color to the image. The motion I saw in my image was of her turning her head to look towards the fence, as if she was looking out at her freedom.

 The final image I made for project six, was my panorama. This image is similar to my first image, but without the HDR filter and more of the city. I like how in Portland you can go from the feeling that you are in a city to the feeling that you are in the forest in just a few minutes. This image contrasts that city, forest feeling moving from the city to the hills of Portland. I have a huge connection with this image, for I recently moved from the hills you see in the photo, downtown to where the photo was taken. I liked this image because it shows an unexpected sunny day in Portland during the month of february. After creating the pano I lowered the exposure, so the building were easier to see in the bright sunlight.