Digital photography

Images have been a communication venue since the ancient era, although alphabets have been a dominant form of communication for the last 2,000 years. Recently, with the development of digital technologies, it has become much easier to create, deliver, and access visual information. As a result, images are gaining new attention as a venue of communication. The use of visual information is pervasive, from professional and commercial purposes to entertainment. This is especially true in social…

M. Night Shyamalan’s 1999 psychological horror film, The Sixth Sense, tells the story of a young boy named Cole (Haley Joel Osment) with the ability to interact with dead people. After meeting a washed up child psychologist named Malcolm (Bruce Willis), Cole learns to cope with his curse. In the film’s conclusion, Malcolm realizes that he is dead, no different than the poltergeists plaguing Cole. The epiphany was shocking to Malcolm, but hints scattered throughout the film provide the audience…

Photos are a record of fleeting moments. Photos tell a story through the eyes of the photographer. Black and white photography can express a story that color photography simply cannot. Thus, when color is removed, the viewer can get an enhanced impression of the models personality and what the photo says about the relationship between the artist and the viewer. Alfred Stieglitz was an inspirational photographer who understood how to capture moments that expressed his feelings towards his models,…

play music. When her father was stationed in Phillippines during the Vietnam War, Leibovitz began taking more and more pictures. When she attended San Francisco Art Institute, she started to study painting and through those years she developed her photography skills. In 1970, she applied for a job with Rolling Stone magazine. “Leibovitz was on the scene at the White House the day President Richard Nixon resigned from office in 1974.” While all the other photographers had put their cameras away,…

The picture I chose is of me in Colorado, taking a senior picture. I chose it because I think it makes me look good. People choose to present themselves in a way that’s seemingly more aesthetically pleasing than the other people they interact with, or because they want to feel good about themselves when they post it. I chose it because it caught what I perceive as the best view of me - externally. Photos only focus on the external and what’s skin deep. My skin was filtered to be clearer. I can…

In the 1973 version of The Exorcist, director William Friedkin presents the story of a possessed little girl. In the movie the little girl, Regan, is possessed by a demon and her body is completely taken over by it. The movie’s opening scene provided the clues towards later answering who the demonic is in the movie. Throughout the entire film you see occurrences of the demon taking over the actions and bodies of its host. The opening scene is an example of when the demonic over took the…

“A picture is worth a thousand words.” This popular quote means that a picture can tell a story just as well as a large amount of text. Painters try to convey a message through their artwork. Salvador Dali is a better painter than Claude Monet because the style of his art was more relatable to the people, his artwork is more popular and different, and he had more meaning behind his artwork. Salvador Dali tried to connect with the people. He would paint his feelings and many people could connect…

Soon after the invention of photography, people began to speculate what it would be like to capture moving images. Early on, the idea was pursued by scientists wishing to study motion through photography. There were several innovators around the world in the 1800s, when cinema technology began: among them Thomas Edison, Louis and Auguste Lumière, Georges Méliès, and many others. Eadward Muybridge was one of the first to use photographs to capture motion through an experiment to see if a horse…

photo, taken by Gustave Le Gray in 1857, is one of the first examples of a combination print. To produce this image, Le Gray combined two separate negatives (one of the sea and one of the sky) into one composite seascape. During this time period, photography was often regarded as an objective record of truth and reality, a notion that Le Gray challenged in performing this manipulation. In addition, by working with two separate negatives, Le Gray was able to overcome the inability of early…

Why was photography important during the Civil War. Hook: Photography, meaning “drawing with lights” in Greek, is an art as well science of capturing light and storing it on some medium. Photographs have been used for over a century now for capturing moments of mankind and things around him, although photography dates back to 4th century B.C. But since its use, arguments have fired up to know whether photography can reflect the truth, the reality or instead push us away from it. Photography is…