ARTS - Photography

Photography

DRAWING WITH LIGHT.

Camera Obscura

means dark chamber, was a large room completely sealed from light except for a very small hole in one wall.

Joseph Niépce,

a French inventor is credited with creating the first camera and producing the world’s oldest surviving photograph

heliography

world’s oldest surviving photograph in 1827 using a process he developed known as __________. It required an exposure, in bright sunlight, of eight hours.

Daguerreotype

this method made photos that lasted longer and where much clearer.

William Henry Fox Talbot

had developed his own method of photography at about the same time that Daguerre was inventing the daguerreotype. He coated paper with silver nitrate or silver chloride.

F. Scott Archer

________ of England came up with the first portable photography process.

• used a wagon to transport his photography materials, and recorded photographic images on plates, much like the negatives your images will be recorded on.

George Eastman

In the 1880s, the American ___________ put flexible roll film on the market, and in 1889 he introduced the first Kodak camera with the slogan, "You push the button and we do the rest.”

Point and Shoot Cameras

are a very simple, straight forward way of recording imagery and do not allow the photographer as much freedom in decision making as the SLR camera.

SLR camera

light passing through the lens is reflected by a mirror and brought to focus on a ground glass.

pentaprism

The mirror causes a reversal of the image seen, but a special device called a ______ that flips the image so that it is recorded upright on the film negatives.

6 things to know

1. Know your camera

2. Hold the camera still

3. The 2-second rule

4. Take a few more

5. Tell a “story”

6. Capture the “mood”

CELL

Composition Exposure Lens Light

weakest place

The center of the frame is the _________ -- it's static, dull, and gives no value to the context. The more you move the subject away from the center, the more relevance you give to the context

Dramatic Perspective

Create impact by photographing your subjects from unexpected angles.

Aperture

refers to the opening of a lens's diaphragm through which light passes.

Shutter Speed

the speed at which the shutter of the camera closes

ISO

refers to the sensitivity— the signal gain—of the camera's sensor

Wide-angle lenses

allow more of a picture to be captured (need focal point) while telephoto lenses tighten the scene and isolate the subject (but affect the depth of field & increase camera shake)

TRUE

The use of frontal flash lighting tends to flatten faces.

TRUE

Use side lighting as much as possible, even moving your subject, if necessary, next to a window.

TRUE

To use fill flash, the aperture and shutter speed are adjusted to correctly expose the background, and the flash is fired to lighten the foreground.

Fill flash

Use ______ for backlit situations or overheated sun

left to right

Start identifying or describing members of the group from ______ to ______

not obvious

Caption should give the viewers an information which is ________ in the picture.

present tense

Use _______ of the verb to describe the picture

above or pictured here

Avoid using “_______________”, or “picture shows”

prepositional participial

You can begin your caption with a __________ phrase, ________ phrase and other phrases; or a clause.