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.