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Monday, January 13, 2014

Weekly Vocabulary 1/13

Collage: A technique of an art production, primarily used in visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblege of different forms, thus creating a new whole

Sepia toning: a method of changing the color of black and white photographs to a brown pigment layer

Selenium toning: Similar to sepia toning, except with a reddish color

Duotone: A halftone reproduction of an image using the superimposition of one contrasting color halftone over another color halftone.

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Triptych


Project Proposal

Ideas:
-Red
-Purple
-Purpler
-slightly lesser purple
-Toys
-Toys that happened to be purple
-Animals
-Fields
-Birds
-Something Purple
-Blue
I've decided to do black and white 

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Vocabulary 12/16

Fill Flash: A photographic technique used to brighten deep shadow areas, typically outdoors on sunny days

Documentary Photographer: A popular form of photography used to chronicle significant and historical events

Magnesium Flare: A pyrotechnic technique (using magnesium) that produces a brilliant light or intense heat without an explosion

Ghost lines



Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Vocabulary 12/2

Ambrotype: A photograph that creates a positive image on a sheet of glass using the wet plate collodion process.

Tintype: A photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of iron coated with a dark lacquer or enamel and used as the support for the photographic emulsion

Heliography: The photogenic process invented by Joseph  Nicephore Niepce around 1822, which he used to make the earliest known permanent photograph from nature

Daguerrotype: Photographic process in which an image is formed on a silvered metal plate, then in subdued light the plate was exposed to halogen fumes and transported to a camera via a light-tight plate holder