"The Last Sleep of a Marksman" – Eerie Civil War Photograph by Alexander Gardner above the male's upper torso, is The photograph I chose for this analysis article A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep is an image taken during one of, if not the most, important periods in American history. It is part of the Incidents series of the War printed and partially photographed by Alexander Gardner. Alexander Gardner was an American Civil War photographer Most commonly known for his portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Gardner was born in October 1821, in Scotland, to an educated family Gardner's interests in photography peaked in 1851 after seeing Mathew Brady's work on the American Civil War, sending him into the photography wormhole, moving to the United States in 1856 and starting to work for Brady until 1862. Say no to plagiarism. Get a custom essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't". t Be Banned'? Get the original essay The Civil War begins, a war in which the North fights to keep the union together and to free the slaves, while the North fights for succession to the North and to keep the slaves. Gardner splits from Brady a year before the official start of the war and begins following General Ambrose Burnside, as well as General Joseph Hooker during various battles according to the New World Encyclopedia. According to the Museum of Modern Art, a sharpshooter's Last Sleep was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg, with a casualty count of approximately fifty-one thousand dead. Alexander Gardener was an expert in the wet plate process and invented imperial photography, which involved a 17 x 21 inch albumen silver print (NWE). When looking at A Sharpshooter Last Sleep, the yellowish tinge gives a hint to the albumen printing method used. The lighting appears to be that of the afternoon sun, as I don't see any shadows being cast to the sides of objects, rather it appears the shadow is being cast downwards. It appears that Gardner also used a shallow depth of field. With finesse, the foreground, background, camera left and right or slightly out of focus, create a blurry vignette. This focuses the viewers' attention on the focal point emanating between the lifeless body's head and his rifle. The ISO sensitivity of wet collodion according to Fstoppers is around 5, thus pushing for slightly longer exposure times. The shutter speed for a wet collodion process is slow by today's standards, but in the daguerreotype era the shutter speed is fast. The fact that Gardner was shooting a lifeless body gives him the freedom of a longer exposure time, as the subject will not be moving. I believe because of the longer exposure time and the way the plate was attached to the camera. The image has traces of light fading around the edges, as well as deterioration. Which I find very endearing, a vignette created by time, of which no print is destined to be the same. I feel that Gardner has a great sense of composition as he placed the lifeless body on one third. The rifle acts as a sort of barrier that prevents the viewer from looking away. The rocks just above the lifeless body are placed on the upper thirds and are shaped like an arrow pointing downwards towards the body. This also applies to all the other debris in the shot, the rock to the right of the camera pushes towards the central rock which then points downwards, towards the left of the camera the horizontal rocks do the same..

Topic > "The Last Sleep of a Marksman" – Eerie Civil War Photograph by Alexander Gardner above the male's upper torso, is The photograph I chose for this analysis article A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep is an image taken during one of, if not the most, important periods in American history. It is part of the Incidents series of the War printed and partially photographed by Alexander Gardner. Alexander Gardner was an American Civil War photographer Most commonly known for his portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Gardner was born in October 1821, in Scotland, to an educated family Gardner's interests in photography peaked in 1851 after seeing Mathew Brady's work on the American Civil War, sending him into the photography wormhole, moving to the United States in 1856 and starting to work for Brady until 1862. Say no to plagiarism. Get a custom essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't". t Be Banned'? Get the original essay The Civil War begins, a war in which the North fights to keep the union together and to free the slaves, while the North fights for succession to the North and to keep the slaves. Gardner splits from Brady a year before the official start of the war and begins following General Ambrose Burnside, as well as General Joseph Hooker during various battles according to the New World Encyclopedia. According to the Museum of Modern Art, a sharpshooter's Last Sleep was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg, with a casualty count of approximately fifty-one thousand dead. Alexander Gardener was an expert in the wet plate process and invented imperial photography, which involved a 17 x 21 inch albumen silver print (NWE). When looking at A Sharpshooter Last Sleep, the yellowish tinge gives a hint to the albumen printing method used. The lighting appears to be that of the afternoon sun, as I don't see any shadows being cast to the sides of objects, rather it appears the shadow is being cast downwards. It appears that Gardner also used a shallow depth of field. With finesse, the foreground, background, camera left and right or slightly out of focus, create a blurry vignette. This focuses the viewers' attention on the focal point emanating between the lifeless body's head and his rifle. The ISO sensitivity of wet collodion according to Fstoppers is around 5, thus pushing for slightly longer exposure times. The shutter speed for a wet collodion process is slow by today's standards, but in the daguerreotype era the shutter speed is fast. The fact that Gardner was shooting a lifeless body gives him the freedom of a longer exposure time, as the subject will not be moving. I believe because of the longer exposure time and the way the plate was attached to the camera. The image has traces of light fading around the edges, as well as deterioration. Which I find very endearing, a vignette created by time, of which no print is destined to be the same. I feel that Gardner has a great sense of composition as he placed the lifeless body on one third. The rifle acts as a sort of barrier that prevents the viewer from looking away. The rocks just above the lifeless body are placed on the upper thirds and are shaped like an arrow pointing downwards towards the body. This also applies to all the other debris in the shot, the rock to the right of the camera pushes towards the central rock which then points downwards, towards the left of the camera the horizontal rocks do the same..