record of real events, as seen in the late 19th century with civil war photography. Although there had been experimentation with various methods prior of technical photography prior to 1825, this time period is considered the beginning of modern photographic history, especially with the emergence of “Daguerreotypemania”.…
this concept applies to many aspects of life, including how we see each other. I want to view others and be viewed by others through the lens of creativity, understanding, and appreciation for all kinds of beauty. My identity is shaped by my interest in and demonstrated talent for photography. I continually observe people, places, and things with a photographic view. I have a creative curiosity and appreciation of differences that allows me to see the world in a different light. As I move…
as opposed to depending on a companion or with respect to do as such, regardless of the fact that they have a modern camera. Here are only seven of them: 1. Time Time is a key fixing in delivering great pictures and when you pay an expert photographic artist, one thing you can just about be sure of is that you will get a greater amount of their time than you would from a companion or relative. The picture taker will, before the photograph shoot, invest energy at a pre-shoot, meeting or…
throughout his career, which included most reputed ones like Magazine Photographer of the Year awarded by the National Press Photographers-Association and he was presented the Robert Capa Gold-Medal by the O.P.C (Overseas Press Club) for best published photographic reporting from abroad for encompassing courage and enterprise. He is the man behind the “Afghan Girl”,…
Wildlife photography has to be a passion, otherwise a photograph becomes just a picture. The discriminating eye behind the lens capturing the subject is more critical than the equipment or even the object of attention. Why? Because it’s an experiential and critical component to a loop of value that cannot be broken. Seeing, experiencing and sensing the spectacular or unusual, all come from the person behind the camera. The world is filled with the “spectacular and unusual”, but not with the…
Within a few years he soon realized he could make a living creating photographic images for shopkeepers and helping a political agenda. (Jackson, 1947) Frank Mowry, a New York photographer, from Rutland, Vermont, hired Jackson when he was just 13 years old, doing tedious work of retouching and adding color to photos…
The first photographer I have chosen is Ansel Adams. His photographes, were known as the first photo taken in 1927. He created a portfolio called “Parmelian Prints of High Siera”. This portfolio is well known in the photography industrie. In 1930, Adam dedicated his life to photography and became the owner of a studio that Virginia’s father owned. In that decade, Adam had many photographs shown at the Smithsonian Imstitute (1931). Later, he opened his own gallery and published “Making a…
On July 20, 1969, NASA successfully sent three men, Neil Armstrong, “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins, to the Moon for its Apollo 11 mission, one of the many missions in the Apollo program. About seven years after the landings, in 1976, a man named Bill Kaysing released a book title We Never Went to the Moon: America’s Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle, in which he claimed that the entire landing was simply a hoax. Since then, many people have read this book (or similar books) or heard about the…
Know Your Body - Eyes Introduction The eyeball lies in the cavity of the orbit. The eye is acted upon by muscles, blood vessels and nerves. The structure of the eye ball has been depicted in the following diagram. Fig: Structure of human eye What is making up of the eye? Conjunctiva: It is a mucous membrane which covers the under surface of the eye lids and is reflected form the eyelids to cover the anterior part of the eyeball up to the margin of the cornea. The three layers (see the diagram…
absorbed light rapidly, thus a tripod was no longer needed (“Around the World”). The exiguous amount of exposure time of the dry plate led to the design of camera shutters, which could open and close more quickly than the hand could remove and replace a lens cap. They allowed photographers to record movement, and permitted them greater mobility and anonymity. Along with that, a wider range of hues could be added to these photographs (Marien, 168). Another type of camera built during this time…