light painting

Weekly Vocabulary

Fill Flash: the technique of using a flash to lighten an area, fill flash adds extra light to a darker image to brighten the image and avoid shadows casted.

Documentary Photographer: a photographer, either professional or amateur, that takes photos of events or places, some times of historic values.

Magnesium Flare: a form of flash that can be used to light a scene. By igniting the magnesium, it creates a the illumination needed to light a scene.

Black and White Image

Image in text

Weekly Vocabulary

Ambrotype: a positive image created on a sheet of glass. The glass is dipped in silver nitrate and then exposed to the image, creating a negative image, which appears as a positive when reflected by light.

Tintype:  a positive image that is created on a thin sheet of iron, which is dipped in dark lacquer or  enamel.

Heliography: Using Bitumen of Judea, a photograph can be created by covering a piece of glass or metal. It hardens from sun exposure, creating harder spots. These spots then appear on the image when oil of lavender is spread on the image.

Daguerreotype: the first publicly announced photograph, which uses exposed light and halogen fumes to a silver metal plate, to create a negative. It can later be developed in a dark room.

Ghost Image and Pen Tool

Weekly Vocabulary

Fisheye: a lens that can be attached to a camera to create a visual distortion. Being able to achieve wide angles, a hemispherical image is created.

Macro: extreme close up photography where an image is taken on a smaller object and enlarged with detail.

Telephoto lens: a long focus lens that takes long focus images. By bending the light inside the lens, the physical length is shorter than its focal length.

Weekly Vocabulary

• Long Exposure Photography: The use of a long time opening for the shutter to capture light over a period of time. In the process, the light can be moved as its being captured to create shapes and words.
• Light Painting: using a long exposure time, light can be moved in the image as it is being captured to create pictures and words.
• Solargraphy: when a lensless camera is used with a long exposure time to capture the paths and movements of the sun.
• Calotype: an early process of photography that uses paper covered with silver iodine. The paper is then exposed to light, which cause all the affected areas to turn dark.

Vocab Definitions

Rule of Thirds: a rule for alining images, two horizontal and two vertical lines are used to divide an image into 9 equal parts. A specific focal point is ten used to center the image.

Depth of Field: a technique of how sharp, in focus, a particular part is in an image. To show the importance of a particular point, a low DoF is used. When a whole image is important, a large DoF is used.

DSLR( Digital Single-Lens Reflex) camera: A camera with a single, light capturing lens. This allows the viewfinder to have the same image as the image sensor.

silhouette internet picture

silhouette

Vocab

METADATA: data of data. Tells the viewer information about camera used and pixels in an image

DPI: number of dots in an image per inch

PPI: the number of pixels in an image per inch

weekly challenge: faceless portrait

Film vs. digital sites

http://www.prophotos.net/digital_article03.html
http://photography.about.com/od/filmvsdigital/a/FilmVsDigital.htm

Film vs. Digital

• Film Advantages:

Overall, there is a lower startup cost.

Film captures detail in blacks and whites better

Allows more errors in minor focusing  

Allows more errors in exposure

The film captures a higher resolution

• Film Disadvantages:

Film cameras are generally heavier than digital cameras

Film takes up more space

The film becomes a continuing cost

The film must be developed before it can be viewed

Dependent on labs to developed the film unless you have a darkroom

• Digital Advantages:

Cameras are lighter than film cameras

Memory cards are small and can store more images than a film camera

Images can be viewed as soon as it's taken

Images can be edited

Can print only the images you like and discard the rest

Cameras have built in filters

• Digital Disadvantages:

There is a higher initial cost for the cameras

Detail can be easily lost

Higher possibility of losing progress due to equipment crashes 

Difficult to capture in low-light environments

Cameras lose their value faster than digital

Self Portrait

Weekly challenge: Animal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Definitions
1. Aperture-the hole or opening on a camera that controls the amount of light that hits the film or image sensor.

2. Shutter Speed-the amount of time the camera's shutter is open when taking a photograph

3. ISO-the archive file of an optical disc. it is an image that is uncompressed and does not use a particular format disc.

 

 

 

 

This photograph by Annie is interesting in the way the darker colors bring a darker feeling to develop the overall picture. Using the contrast between the light and shadows, they bring harmony to the overall picture.




The picture here by Annie uses value and color very well. The pink from the dress and roses draw your eyes to look at the entire page, instead of just one focal point. The brightness seems to give an overall value that is very joyful.

Shape:

 Line:

 Color:

 Value

 Texture

 Harmony

 Contrast:

 Movement:

 Rhythm:

Balance:

 

Homework

Digital photo definitions

Line: an element in photography to divide or seperate different parts of a picture, a line can enhance the quality of the image by creating seperartion and possibly balance between the different figures.
Shape: a shape is another element in a photo. Defined as a two-dimensional figure, a shape can become a form , or a three-dimensional figure, with proper development from lighting and seperation.
Color: color in an image are the natural colors that are found from the rays of light.  With lighting adjustments and editing, an image's natural color can become whited out or unnatural fluorescent colors.
 Value: it is the level of brightness of pixels or colors in a frame
Volume/Form: it is the way the colors, shapes, or lines in a picture create a well working image with harmony between each other.
Balance:A secondary point of interest to counter the main focus, and creates harmony by filling in the empty space.
Harmony: the overall balance of the image, that creates a sort of unity between the objects in a picture.
Contrast: the brightness range in an image. As the contrast in the image increases, the brightness also increases.
Movement and rhythm: these two terms refer to the flow of an image. As the viewers eyes move through out the image, the creator puts patterns inside the image that creates a commonality and unity in the image.  
Texture: used to describe either the feel of a two-dimensional piece of art, or how a three-dimensional actually feels.