Mrs. Herbert Duckworth by Julia Margaret Cameron is a photograph portrait depicting Julia Jackson, who doesn’t have the last name Duckworth due to the fact that Herbert & Julia got a divorce 3 years after this photo was taken. Nevertheless, the portrait is meant to capture Julia Jackson in a very beautiful light, focusing on her purity, strength, & elegance in the photograph.
The main components I took from this piece was basically the entire structure of it. I basically tried to emulate the lighting, the themes of grace, & the pose Jackson is holding.
View from the Window at Le Gras by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce is what the title suggests, or at least is supposed to be what the title suggests as it’s very hard to make out much in this photograph. That's because this is one of the earliest camera-made photographs taken with a camera obscura. When this was first produced, Niépce had actually called it a “heliograph” as the process of making pictures had to do with exposing pewter plates in the hot sun for either several hours or multiple days. That's actually just one step of many that I don’t want to get into.
The key inspiration I took from this piece was just how grainy it was. I really enjoyed the look of it so I funneled that into my own work by adjusting the maximum amount of colors used, effectively dithering it in the process to get that same grainy feel.
