Digital photography

Why Photoshop Needs to Change Did you know, according to Paige Woldt’s slideshow, 99% of photos in ads and magazines have been retouched by photoshop similar photographic enhancements? Photoshop is an Adobe software used to edit images.. The use of photoshop to make people look perfect is wrong. When people look at these magazines with photoshopped images they think that this is what they're supposed to look like. However, photoshop itself is not a bad thing. As Ms. Summers says in Don’t let…

Books are tools which people use find truth and wisdom; pictures are the important role for more understanding. After years and years of improving, pictures have become an important part of readings, especially in the range of Encyclopedia and history; therefore, considering a picture for a certain part in history is critical in different circumstances. For example, consider a picture for CPR, well known as the Canadian Pacific Railway, there are three pictures available: The first one is…

Nettie Wild’s intellectually provocative composition, titled Uninterrupted, is a stunning representation of the essentiality and effectivity of moving images. Projected as large-scale images, the spectacle utilizes the pillars and underside of Vancouver’s Cambie Street Bridge as its film screen to exemplify the major disconnect between our city and the river habitat below. Uninterrupted- comprised of vivid illustrations and breathtaking scores composed by Owen Belton- demonstrates the impact of…

If Hank Willis Thomas was trying to get a message across, he did so with success. At first, I was a bit confused when I stood in front of the image, then a sign a said: “Do not be afraid to use your flash photography.” Upon turning on my iPhone camera light I was taken back. Here is this huge dark installation that at first glance appears to be just black come to life. This famous photograph brought out so many different dark emotions. The darkness of the installation…

Photography is not just strictly visual, it is influential, subjective, objective, and impactful. It is a means and a medium to bring about change in society or the world. The camera is a small but powerful tool to bring about social change but to also share an image, an image captured in a moment of time. In a quote by renowned American photographer Aaron Siskind, “Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little…

Migrant Mother” photograph is an eminent portion by Dorothea Lange that was captured during the notorious Great Depression in the United States in 1936. Dorothea Lange is well known for her pictures taken all through the great depression. Dorothea photograph “Migrant Mother” was documented the most popular photograph during great depression in the 1930’s. At first sight, inside the picture you can see a woman who looks worn-out and very tired. Nearby her, there are two younger…

creativity of the photographic eye. Before my attendance with this school I had only searched for a ways to provide certainty through community service; this physically provided less fortunate with that value of certainty. I have always thought photography to be powerful means of providing certainty that we all crave in our lives today. Our world we live in is full of color, creativity, and others persuading to invoke feelings visually. In middle school I knew I could make a difference in some…

Body image is defined as how one views their own body, for example, how it looks, how it feels and how it moves. One’s perception of their body is molded by insight, emotion, and physical perceptions, but can change depending on the mood and environment. Because adolescents undergo significant physical transformations to their bodies during puberty, they are likely to experience highly distorted images of their bodies. Body image is strongly affected by self-esteem and more so than by…

Eadweard Muybridge was the first photographer to capture motion with still images, create a new medium, and invention. His first work of art capturing motion was his piece called “Cantering, Saddled” on December of 1878. Printed on collotype, a method of printing high-quality prints by using hardened gelatin without the use of a screen, on 19x24 ⅛ inch sheet, can now be viewed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Collotype uses heat and cold water treated dichromate-sensitized gelatin which is…

On October 21st 1967 Bernie Boston while working for the Washington Star (a well-respected newspaper agency at the time) took the photo that would later define an entire decade. Oddly enough, the photograph was originally rejected by the Washington Star’s editor for being irrelevant and therefore was never published by the Washington Star. The photo earned its reputation when Boston submitted it into several photo competitions. My goal is to give this photograph the chance that the Washington…