Digital photography

Though Susan Sontag claims in “Why We Take Pictures” that photography is a defense against anxiety and a tool of power by allowing an individual to control what the subject of the photograph is, thus controlling the environment. Since Sontag wrote her opinion, photography has evolved to be a more casual experience that documents daily life. Through the mass incorporation of social media into our lives and how it allows us to have constant access to others lives and others into our own, we…

Throughout time, people have always marveled at the ability to be able to preserve a moment for all eternity whether it be scrawling it down, painting a portrait or taking photographs. Photography is a very integral part of our lives today with how it's evolving and how everyone and their mother are recording virtually anything of interest. Newer tools like iphone cameras and phone applications that allow you to edit and mess around with photos are one of the things that never would have been…

Photography is one of the few fields that is actually able to capture the combination of the spiritual world, the art world and nature herself, an amalgamation that will certainly leave u breathless. What better device can you use to capture such moments than the DLSR camera. A SLR camera is different compared to other cameras because SLR camera allows the photographer to see the real whole image before hands. Most ordinary cameras usually have flaws in their viewfinder meaning they can't really…

images rather that look and examine the possible situations presented. The artist made an attempt to put the pictures in a different context and hold the viewers attention much like a painting would. At first I did what most people do when it comes to digital images, I took a quick glance and kept looking, it was only on the second walk around did I notice the interesting surrounding of the photographs. Another important topic the artist alluded to was the topic of privacy and the violation of…

What is fine art photography? What other areas of photography does fine art photography overlap with? Fine art photography is photography created for aesthetic reasons. It can be used to express beauty. This type of photography can overlap with commercial, fashion, nature, black and white and portrait photography. It can also overlap with photojournalism. 2. What is stock photography? How is traditional stock photography different from micro-stock photography? Stock photography is photos that…

Low-light photography is the common name used for situations where the subject you are going to take a picture of is indirectly lighten by objects far away or with a dim source that can be outdoors or indoors, for example places that have no strong lights on but has some other background lights such as a TV, a lamp, a candle or street lights. Mostly for beginners a low-light moment would be identified when the camera is unable to focus lock using the auto focus without additional illumination,…

a scene where the window has things on it may be used for artistic purposes, I don’t think mine would need those things in the window. Without things obscuring the intended photo, it makes the photo clear and “visible.” You, even though doing photography can be challenging, by getting all of the elements correct, it’s interesting why people take photographs as art. Reasons Why People Take Art Like…

Photographer Marceana Black A photographer is a professional that focuses on the art of taking photographs with a digital or film camera. Photographers use artificial and/or natural lighting to snap pictures of various people, places and things in a variety of settings. Photographers typically do marketing and advertise services to attract clients analyze and decide how to compose a subject,use various photographic techniques and equipment capture subjects in commercial-quality photographs…

Ritchin and Balsamo. From the four reads of the week by Ritchin and Balsamo, my main takeaway from Ritchin was the advancement of digital photography and how it has made it easier for photographers to tell their story through imagery, plus the added effect that tells a false story and Balsamo the unconscious consequence of technological innovations on culture. “Photography, as we have known it, is both ending and enlarging, with an evolving medium hidden inside it as in a Trojan horse,…

In this research paper, I will be talking about the equipment used to become a photographer. Photography requires a numerous amount of equipment to become a photographer. Photography shows way beyond than what is just on in the photo, it shows emotions. A method of recording images by the actions of light, or related radiation, on a sensitive material. I will be presenting to the panel of judges a portfolio of all the photographs that I have learned to take with different equipment, effects, and…