LHS Digital Photography Blog - Amanda Taylor

Daguerreotypes Daguerrotype of Edger Allan Poe Daguerrotypes were the first publicly available process. It was introduced in 1839 by inventor  Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, and it quickly became the most commonly used practice at the time. To create the photo, one would first treat a sheet of silver-plated copper with fumes to give it a light sensitive surface. They would expose it in a camera for as long as was judged by the lighting, make  fume it with mercury vapor, remove its light sensitivity with further chemical treatment, rinse and dry it, and finally seal the final photo in a protective case of some kind to prevent it from getting destroyed. Needless to say this process requires a lot of sensitive work, the handling of extremely dangerous chemicals, and time. Should any step go wrong and the entire image may be irreversibly damaged. Resources: What is a Daguerreotype? How to Spot a Daguerrotype Cyanotypes "Algae" by Anna Atkins Cyanotype...

In this project, our class was tasked with manipulating the normal way we see a photo with multiple exposure, panoramas, and HDR. I decided to step my own path from that by having each kind of photo have a specific theme. The multiple exposure photos were a "glitch" in reality, the panoramas were the different ways the mind can see overwhelming situations, and the HDR photos were of finding beauty in small things.  For this photo, I really wanted to play around with different textures. I started with a simple photo of a balcony and added a rough, geometric picture and a sharply contrasted picture of tree branches. Finally the clouds were included to add some smoothness to the ensemble. Using a view of the city and Mount Hood as a background, I altered several photos to make a kind of floating modernistic city. The building comes from a photo I took from earlier in the school year and the birds were originally a statue picture, but were heavily edited. Out of all t...

In our community project, we decided to take pictures in the workshop of in the auditorium. The graffiti in there has dated back decades with the oldest known one being from 1976, giving the room a magical feel to it. Forgotten set pieces, dusty tools, and spilled paint make an array of colors that add so much life to the hidden gem, so I knew we had to take pictures of it. To emphasize the life that came from the workshop, we emphasized the lighting and colors along with adding a little warmth to make the scene feel more comfortable. Overall I believe we did a great job in representing the inner love and brightness in this community.