Scan Project

Camera Obscura

Camera = Latin for “room”Obscura = Latin for “dark”

Camera obscura occurs  a darkened enclosure having an aperture usually provided with a lens through which light from external objects enters to form an image of the objects on the opposite surface. In other words when an image is shown inverted on a surface, made by closing off all resources of light, aside from one small pinhole. This hole will allow the rays to bounce around and invert the image.

Favorite Artist

Robert Mapplethorpe 

Composites

Climate Change

Books Checked out from Library

Emulation Project: Anna Atkins

I decided to emulate Anna Atkins for my final project because going through the list of suggested people when first given the assignment her photographs stood out to me, they were so different than the other classic photographers. I found out that Anna Atkins is a british photographer who started out as a botanist which later came into her photography, developing images of botanical specimens. She had learned directly from Talbot about two of his inventions related to photography: the "photogenic drawing" technique (where an object is placed on light-sensitized paper when exposed the sun produces an image) and cyanotypes. I attempted to recreate the cyanotypes in my project through photoshop, so they weren't exactly the same method but the results were pretty similar. Overall I really enjoyed emulating her. 

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