Traditional photographic processes

Traditional photographic processes

This type of photography was used before digital photography was invented, and although there are people that still do this, it has become less popular.

The traditional photographic processes include:

1. negatives
2. enlarger
3. developer
4. stop
5. fixer
6. Printing

A negative (usually made out of plastic or glass) is an image that reproduces the bright portions of the photographed subject as dark and the dark parts as light areas.

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An enlarger is a device for producing a negative larger than the original, meaning that by putting the negatives on the lens, it projects them onto the paper positioned on the easel.

3.

When developing, you have to be really careful because this involves different chemicals, and not only it is dangerous health wise but also, if you happen to leave your photos in this chemicals for too long, your photos will turn to black paper.

Developer: It makes the negatives appear on paper

4. Stop: It makes the photograph stop developing

5. Fixer: It makes the photograph not fade away

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The printing process is when you hang up your photos in the dark room to let them dry.

Photography evaluation

Evaluation: Photography

For the final photography project we had to shoot a series of 10+ photos of our choice, later on we would have to decide in which magazines this photos could fit in.

I chose light graffiti because its simplicity looks beautiful. At the start I wasn’t sure what I was going to base it on, but I thought of something that could be interesting. I thought of a concept called ‘First Thing’, this means that I asked people to draw or write the first thing that comes to their mind.

Things that went well

Some of the things that I got good feedback on where firstly my ‘first thing’ concept due to the fact that it gets people into others people’s minds and it becomes more personal. Secondly, although the use of light wasn’t extremely varied I did experiment with different lights and I am happy with the outcome. Last, I was told that the fact that I got different people involved and it became not only my project but everyone else’s as well.

Things I can improve on

Although I had quite a few people helping me out with this project, I was told that I should have asked help from more and different people, so the photos could variate. Why? Because one of the issues I had while shooting was that everyone came up with the same drawings, it was really basic; hearts, stars, writing love, but if I would have asked people from different ages and genders then I could have achieved something better. Also, I was told that although my photos looked nice, using more colour and different backgrounds could have helped due to the fact that the photos looked plain; it was a plain black background and only two of the photos had colour in it.

For next time

After getting feedback, I decided I would try to re-shoot the photos and change some things, such as background and lighting. By doing this I realised that this technique can be used in many different ways in order to achieve professional looking photos. This is what I did:

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