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The Talbot Archive BBC Interview

3/3/2019

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Featured Photographer

22/2/2018

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Morgan Titterington.

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Morgan is a young photographer from Blackburn who has recently been accepted onto the Fda Photographic degree course at University Centre at Blackburn College. I met Morgan several months ago and it quickly became she had both infectious enthusiasm and and strong portfolio of work. I have no doubt whatsoever that she will succeed on her course and become an accomplished photographer. The drive to shoot, learn and improve in her photographic techniques and visualisation, will, without a doubt lead to a successful career in photography. I wish you well in your chosed career.

Morgan Writes:

As Well as photography I am into gaming, I like to play on my Xbox. I enjoy photography because it's similar to art, you can be creative and be the person you want to be, it makes me feel like I belong and like I'm free.

I got my camera in July 2016 after my nana passed away ,she was a real big influence in my art and the reason I wanted to get into photography, just a shame she isn't here to see me be this happy about what I'm doing,

I am due to go to university in September and study photography I am really excited about it but also really nervous, I will be the first from my family to go to uni, I just want to make my family proud of me.



Below are some examples of Morgans work:
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Darktable vs Lightroom

28/1/2018

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 As part of this blog I am going to look at various aspects of photography. 
  • Cameras
  • Lenses
  • Software
  • Trending techniques
  • Photographers.
I am by no means the worlds greatest expert, however , I will discuss things and pass my opinion as to how these thing influence and effect my work.

I will start with darktable. I have just downloaded this open source software and over the coming weeks I will test the software to see how it stands alongside Lightroom.

If you have used this product I would be interested to hear your views.
​Please contact me or leave a comment below.
​The software is total free and can be downloaded from here.https://www.darktable.org/
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Below is an excerpt from the developers web site:

​darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.
Raw is the unprocessed capture straight from the camera’s sensor to the memory card, nothing has been altered. There are multiple alternatives in the open source world for raw development (ufraw, dcraw, rawtherapee) but darktable tries to fill the gap between the excellent existing free raw converters and image management tools (such as e.g. ufraw, rawstudio, f-spot, digikam, shotwell). It focuses on the workflow to make it easier for the photographer to quickly handle the thousands of images a day of shooting can produce. It’s also one of the very few FOSS projects able to do tethered shooting.
The internal architecture of darktable allows users to easily add modules for all sorts of image processing, from the very simple (crop, exposure, spot removal) to the most advanced (simulation of human night vision).
The user interface is built around efficient caching of image metadata and mipmaps, all stored in a database. The main focus lies on user interaction, both in terms of a smooth interface design as well as processing speed. High quality output is also one of our goals.
All editing is fully non-destructive and only operates on cached image buffers for display. The full image is only converted during export. Raw image loading is done using rawspeed, high-dynamic range and standard image formats such as jpeg are also supported. The core operates completely on floating point values, so darktable can not only be used for photography but also for scientifically acquired images or output of renderers (high dynamic range).
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BBC Flog It visit The Talbot Archive

27/1/2018

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We were very honoured this week to welcome Paul Martin and the team from the BBC programme Flog It.

They visited The University Centre at Blackburn College to view and film the work we are doing on archive. Presenter Paul Martin spoke to tutor Richard Peregrine, Howard and Noni Talbot and myself about this wonderful collection of images.
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View more images from the archive by clicking the links below.
​https://www.petejgraham.co.uk/curating-the-talbot-archive.
http://www.cottontown.org/
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The Talbot Conference

27/1/2018

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As part of my role as Curator of The Talbot Archive myself and staff at University Centre Blackburn College have organised a conference based around the works of father and son photographers Wally and Howard Talbot.

This event provides a unique opportunity to enjoy the stunning photographic collection ‘The Talbot Archive’. The photography catalogues Lancashire life from the 1930s through to the 1990s from Blackburn photographers Wally and Howard Talbot.
This collection forms a wonderful archive of local life that will increase in value as a vital piece of social documentary photography in a regional and national context.

Tickets are available from: ​https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-talbot-conference-tickets

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Calf Hey Reservoir 

3/9/2016

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A few shots taken at Calf Hey Reservoir on the Grane Road heading towards Haslingden.
A beautiful place, well worth a visit.
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DARWEN LIVE 2016

31/5/2016

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Support Needed For A Great Club.

7/5/2016

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Getting Used To The Camera Slowly.

22/2/2016

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Just experimenting with the new camera using night mode (no flash) not perfect by any means but a start, just need to get used to the correct settings and next time manual focus would be better.
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Great Local Event.

16/2/2016

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