Photography Processes and Techniques

• Developers - Produces a visible image from the latent image (1.5 - 2 min)
• Stop - Terminates the development and removes excess of chemical (15 - 30 sec)
• Fix - Removes the underdeveloped silver halide crystals from the emulsion (30 sec - 1 min)
• Washed - Water, the final process (10 min)

Pinhole Photography - A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens but with a tiny aperture, a pinhole – effectively a light-proof box with a small hole in one side. Light from a scene passes through the aperture and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box, which is known as the camera obscura effect.

• Sunny: 15-20 sec
• Overcast: 60 sec
• Cloudy: 2 min
• Indoors: 30 min – 1 hour
• Night Time: A few hours approx.

Photoshop Process:

• Image Rotation: Image - Image rotation - To flip image

• Invert Image: Adjustments - Invert image

• Edit Image: Play with different layers, effects, and opacity

• New Layer: Add color to the image with brush tools and their opacities. Select different areas with the pen/select tool/magic hand

• Add Filter

• Flatten Image: Select all layers - right-click layers - Flatten image - Then save image

Brenda Croft: Concepts

To show how Aboriginals have the rights to speak, to prove how proud she is of her culture and heritage. 'My presentation references home, place, location, and country as key foundations of my practice-led research. Continually assessing the context of belonging to home, country, and family is intrinsic to how I understand the meaning of being indigenous and human. If a person has been disconnected from these key elements, does that leave one homeless, displaced, without family? Since 1998, she has worked with digital media to create images that layer the photographs and text, exploring more directly autobiographical layer. She doesn’t appear in these photographs, but in depicting networks of her family and friends, she has created a form of self-portrait.