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Unit 25 Studio food photographer research

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Café culture Marcus Nilsson is a photographer who is mostly known for his food photography, with projects such as Sundaez and Weight watchers.  This is one of the photographs from his project Sundaez, this photo is great because it shows the product but the photographer has gone to great lengths to make the photo interesting by using a different shaped and coloured plate and bowl. Another thing that the photographer has done is used the lighting to create a shadow, a higher angle and has used an interesting coloured background. The photographer has done amazing at making the food look more interesting than it actually is by using different lighting techniques, different shaped and coloured objects. He has also edited the background to have some sort of pop art feel.  This second image is from his Pastrami. This image is of something so simple but the photographer has gone the extra mile to make this photo more complex and he has made a comfort food look like a lux...

Unit 36 Photographic Processing Laboratories

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Photographic Processing Laboratories ProAm provides both colour and black & white film. The film sizes they are able to process are all sizes of C41 and other popular processes like 35mm, 120 and even APS can be printed in the traditional way. They also are able to scan and then print old negatives such as 110, 126 and 127.  Proam uses both machines and hand printing. The digital sizes that they do are: 5” x 3.5” 5” x 4” 5” x 5” 6” x 4” 6” x 6” 7” x 5” 7.5” x 5” 8” x 6” 8” x 8” 9” x 6” 9” x 9” 10” x 7” 10” x 8” 10” x 10” 11” x 11” 12” x 8” 12” x 9” 12” x 10” 12” x 12” 14” x 10” 14” x 11” 15” x 10” 16” x 12” 18” x 12” A4 A3 ProAm only can do up to A3 for printing and then they hand it over to ProPhotoPrint in Halifax to do larger sizes for fine print such as 1...

Unit 36 Risk assessment

RISK ASSESSMENT TEMPLATE: Assessment Reference: Activity Description: Darkroom processing Assessment Date: 03.01.2017 Assessor Review Date: (should be no greater than 12 months) Assessment Team Members Gemma and Mike Overall Potential Risk Factor: College Area: Overall Residual Risk Factor: Dept Team: Number of People Exposed: One Course Applicable To: Photography People Exposed: Georgia Mudd Building-Place & Exact Location (e.g Trinity Green workshop 1) Old building darkroom Is This An Acceptable Risk? Hazard Persons At Risk and How Existing Control Measures What are you currently doing to prevent it? Probability Severity Risk Level Addition...

Unit 36 Research

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Elliot Erwitt Elliot Erwitt is an American documentary and advertising photographer who is known for his black and white photos of absurd situations in everyday setting.  Elliot Erwitt was mostly known for his ironic photos such as this one of a pregnant woman serving coffee and alcohol. This image was taken by Elliot Erwitt sometime in January 2000 for the Lavazza calendar he made called Families - Ritratti Intorno Al Caff é  (which is a coffee company). Also this photo was either taken in Italy or Portugal. I find this photo very ironic but also a great insight in to this woman's life.  There's nothing much to criticize  about this image but I dislike the model is looking away from the camera because we cannot see what she is looking at. Another minor  criticism is that you can't see the alcohol bottle names which I think would've made the photo better just as a personal preference. Although I have some critiques about this image I would say that ...

Unit 36 Darkroom techniques

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Darkroom Techniques Research Dodging is a technique that you use when an area of your photograph is too dark or shows no detail. This can be done with any object that can block light although some experts say to use a dodge tool which is a piece of cardboard or plastic at the end of a mental wand. When using your tool block the light that hits the area you want to make lighter. This could take a second or more depending on how much you would need to lighten the area. If you just cover the area with your tool you will need to shake it because the outline of the object will be on your image.  Burning is another technique that works the exactly the same as dodging but reverse. The print Is given a normal exposure then extra exposure is given to the area that need to be darkened. A card or other type of opaque object is held between the enlarger lens and the paper you then cover the area with the object you wish to not change and the rest of the area that you want to correct wil...