Sally Mann is known as one of Americas renowned photographers, in her professional career, she has released a total of 8 books of her photographic works, her first being – At Twelve in 1988.

Her book Hold Still in 2016, won her the Andrew Carnegie medal for excellence in nonfiction.

Sally Mann always stayed close to her roots, photographing southern America from the 1970’s.

She mainly uses black and white photography and does portrait, architecture, landscape and still life photography, her first solo exhibition was at the Corcoran gallery of art, Washington D.C. in 1977. 

Sally Mann has won the national endowment for the arts fellowship three times in her career, she was named “America’s best Photographer” by Times Magazine in 2001.

Some of her work is very distressing to some, because her work titled Body Farm, includes images of her dead greyhounds decomposing body, and images of decomposing human bodies at the Forensic Study Facility, which is known as The Body Farm.

In some of her more intimate pictures, her husband Larry Mann and her own children pose for Sally in pictures, weather they’re fully clothed or even naked.
Her images are mainly in monochrome, with wide depth of field, her night time pictures she will use a shutter speed of about 1-1.5 seconds with an aperture around f 5.6 with an ISO 200-400. Her other images are with a shutter speed of around 1/60, aperture of around f 5.6 - f 17, with an ISO between 100 - 400. she has also experimented with distressing negatives, which have an amazing outcome.

 

Peter Henry Emerson was born in Cuba in 1856, in 1869 he came to England to attend schools here, due to a war outbreak in Cuba.

In 1881, he married Edith Amy Ainsworth, he bought his first camera the following year 1882.

 

Peter Henry Emerson worked his photography on Fens Marshes of East Anglia, he rejected the stiff pose as he thought it was to artificial, he preferred a more natural approach to photography. 

Towing the reed 1885, In this picture the man looks like hes pulling a boat full of reeds, with another man behind with stacks of reed in the background, his exposure would have been about 5-6 minutes. With today’s cameras I’d use monochrome setting, shutter speed of 1/60, aperture of f5.6, and ISO 200.

The photo rowing home the schoof-stuff 1886, is of a man in a row boat on his own with a stockpile of reeds. He used a mid-depth of field, from the lack of ripples on the water, I think the exposure was for about 5 minutes.  If I took the same picture, with a modern camera, I’d use the monochrome settings, shutter speed of 1/100, aperture f18, ISO 400.

The toad in the path – an early spring in Norfolk 1888, Two young children are looking down at something on the ground not far from a house, in the middle of the countryside.  Peter used a wide depth of field with an exposure of about 4-5 minutes.  This image on todays camera would be in monochrome, with a shutter speed of 1/80, aperture of 5.6, and an ISO 400.