Writing with light

Weekly Vocab

1. Fill Flash- is a photographic technique used to brighten deep shadow areas, typically outdoors on sunny days, though the technique is useful any time the background is significantly brighter than the subject of the photograph, particularly in backlit subjects

2. Documentary Photographer-usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle significant and historical events

3.Magnesium Flare-a brilliant white flare containing metallic magnesium wire or ribbon

Photography Challenge 1-30

#1 Self Portrait

#2 What I wore

#3 Clouds

#4 Something green

#10 Childhood memory

#11 Something Blue

#12 Sunset

#15 Silhouette

#18 Shoes

#23 Sun Flare

#24 Animal

#26 Close up

#28 Flower

#29 Black & White

#30 Reflections

#9 Someone you love
Sister

#6 From low angle

#27 From a distance
after winning the game vs Monte Vista

Black & White PSD

Weekly Vocabulary

1. Ambrotype- is a photograph that creates a positive image on a sheet of glass using the wet plate collodion process 

2. Tintype-  is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of iron coated with a dark lacquer or enamel and used as the support for the photographic emulsion

3. Heliography-  A device for transmitting messages by reflecting sunlight

4. Daguerreotype-  An early photographic process with the image made on a light-sensitive silver-coated metallic plate

49ers Image In Text

Weekly Vocabulary/ Photography Lenses

1. Fisheye- a lens that is wide angled
2. Macro-is extreme close-up photography, usually of very small subjects
3. Telephoto-is a specific type of a long-focus lens in which the physical length of the lens is shorter than the focal length

Ghost Image with wrapping

Ghost Image

Vocab 11/21/13

1. Long exposure photography- involves using a long-duration shutter speed to sharply capture the stationary elements of images while blurring, smearing, or obscuring the moving elements

2. Light painting- a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera

3. Solargraphy- is a photographic method for recording the paths of the Sun

4. Calotype-was a refinement of the process of photogenic drawing, offering a much more sensitive medium through its use of the latent image phenomenon

Vocab

Rule of thirds-The basic principle behind the rule of thirds is to imagine breaking an image down into thirds (both horizontally and vertically) so that you have 9 parts
Depth of field- the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image

DSLR-digital single-lens reflex camera, is a digital camera combining the optics and the mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a digital imaging sensor, as opposed to photographic film.

Spiderman Spiral

Silhouette self Portrait

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Silhouette

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Vocab

Metadata- describes how and when and by whom a particular set of data was collected, and how the data is formatted
DPI- dots per inch, a measure of spatial printing or video dot density
PPI- measure the number of pixels per line per inch in a digital photo

Weekly Challenge

Something Blue

Print Vs Digital photography Pros & Cons

Print
Pros:
-cheaper cameras than digital
-more exposure
-black and white value
-gives you the ability to develop a photo
-has more art to it

Cons:
-takes a long time to develop photos
-no ability to capture a lot of photos at one time
-not able to preview photos
-you need a dark room
-you need to keep buying film

Digital
Pros:
-ability to take lots of pictures at one time
-you are able o edit photos on softwares
-ability to share photos online
-photos are stored all in a memory card
-more functions you can use

Cons:
-extremely expensive
-requires a computer to edit photos
-more fragile
- can easily lose whites and blacks color value
-battery life

Sources
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/filmdig.htm
http://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/digital-camera-vs-film-pros-and-cons/

Weekly Challenge

 

Close up

Triangle of Exposure

Definitions- 3

Aperture-is a hole or an opening through which light travels
Shutter Speed- is the length of time a camera's shutter is open when taking a photograph
Iso -Film speed is the measure of a photographic film's sensitivity to light, determined by sensitometry and measured on various numerical scales

Self Cartoon

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Self Cubist

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Cartoon

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Cubist filters

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Portrait

Antonio's Photoshop picture

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Elements of Art

PICS

 FORM

 COLOR

 BALANCE

MOVEMENT

 LINE

RHYTHM

CONTRAST

VOLUME

VALUE

 TEXTURE

HARMONY