History of photography

Today’s society is revolved around one thing: social media. Teenagers and young adults all around the world are addicted to their cell phones and, most importantly, their social media profiles. We live in a world of likes and followers where the higher numbers you have, the more “popular” you are. Teenagers and young adults are exposed to edited pictures of men and women, which causes them to have a pessimistic body image about themselves. They tend to believe that these are real life images,…

Against the background of the First Opium War (1840–42), Western photographers visited China for the first time, accompanying Western military personnel, missionaries, and consular officials. The earliest recorded photographic activity in China by Western photographers was in July 1842, only three years after the invention of the medium. Dr. Richard Woosnam (1815–1888) and Major George Alexander Malcolm (1810–1888) made daguerreotypes at Yangtze (Yangzi) River during the final stages of the…

Human beings are by nature, more visual learners than anything else. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and that’s true. Visuals are seen everywhere in the media and on the internet to grab the audience’s attention and to draw emotion needed in order to be effective. Effective visuals must contain the right combination of argument, purpose, and tone. A powerful and effective visual is the one that grabs at the audiences heart strings or emotion and makes them sympathetic to the…

In Benny’s Video the audience saw how graphically intense a scene was when we did not actually get to see it at all. Haneke in a way blind us from the film, when Benny shoots the little girl for the first time all we see is her moving out of the frame while she screams. The sound of her screams is all we hear from her, while we see Benny freak out and try to reload the gun as he shoots her again. This take happens all in one single frame, so Haneke forces us to see this girl getting shot to…

tuff not only American men are but how strong of a county we are! As the firefighters stand on top of rubble, they still raise the American flag to show there is hope! I feel that the picture was taken to capture this devastating moment in American history so that we can always stay in touch with it and never forget. The background is not very clear, just like how Americans felt at the time of the attack. The dust is there but is not thick enough to hide the rubble from the crushed twin towers.…

Ezra Stoller has an uncanny ability of careful attention to capture the perfect vantage point, lighting conditions and framing composition — building, or non-architectural element — as a trinity to comment on the structures. Due to this, architects would commission Stoller to “Stollerize” their buildings for his photographical technique to manifest in their architecture. Stoller’s iconic images are typically shot in crisp black-and-white to extensively define modernist architecture (in the late…

The main people featured in the movie are the photographer Raúl Cañibano, the photography professor Ron Herman and the Director Mary Skinner. The film is talking about the Cuba photographer Raúl Cañibano's photos taken in Cuba. In the movie, it shows us a large amount of photos taken by Raúl Cañibano. The film is 28 minutes in total. It talks about the background of the photos, which are the everyday life of the Cubans. The photographer go back to the cities that he lived when he was young and…

will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.” My thoughts: It is tempting, but too easy, to think of Ansel Adams as simply the Norman Rockwell of landscape photography, immensely popular but insignificant. Every year there is yet another books produced capturing some aspect of his career, another calendar featuring his breathtaking black-and-white views of Yosemite Valley in California. Adams photographs…

photos. Some basic information on him is that he was born in July 9 of 1937 from Bradford, U.K. After he was done with school, 1960s, he moved to Los Angeles, where he then painted his first paintings. But by 1970 he went into photography. With his new lifestyle in photography, he named his collages “joiners”. The joiner I will be critiquing is a collage of his self and with a cigarette in one of the photos. He looks away from the camera at different angles. The lower the photo is on the…

capturing wide-angle images of up to 180 degrees. These photos will have some distortion on the edges created by the wide angle of the picture. This makes for a hemispherical or panoramic image. Macro: This type of lens is made to be used for close-up photography where the small subject you are taking a picture of will appear to be larger than life. They come primarily with 1:1 magnification levels. Wide-angle: This type of lens can capture images at a wide angle, which helps to capture more of…