Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Weekly Vocabulary

1. Zone system- is a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development
2 .Bromoil Process- was an early photographic process that was very popular with the Pictorialists during the first half of the twentieth century
3.Photo-Secession- was an early-20th-century movement that promoted photography as a fine art in general and photographic pictorialism in particular

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Weekly Vocabulary

1. EXIF- Exchangeable image file format 
2. TIFF-  is a computer file format for storing raster graphics images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and both amateur and professional photographers in general
3.Geotagged Photograph-  is a photograph which is associated with a geographical location by geotagging

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Weekly Vocabulary

1. Prime Lens (FFL)-  is either a photographic lens whosefocal length is fixed, as opposed to a zoom lens, or it is the primary lens in a combination lens system
2. Wide- Angle Lens-  refers to a lenswhose focal length is substantially smaller than the focal length of a normal lens for a given film plane
3. Calypso underwater camera-  35mm film camera was conceived by the marine explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910—1997), designed by Jean de Wouters and manufactured by Atoms in France
4. Through-the-lens metering-  is a photographic term describing a feature of cameras capable of measuring lightlevels in a scene through their taking lenses, as opposed to a separate metering window

Social Issue GIF: Gangs


Friday, May 2, 2014

Weekly Vocabulary

1. 35 mm camera-  is the film gauge most commonly used for motion pictures and chemical still photography 
2. Bang Bang Club- was a label primarily associated with four photographers active within the townships of South Africa between 1990 and 1994
3. Zoom lens- a lens allowing a camera to change smoothly from a long shot to a close-up or vice versa by varying the focal length.
4. Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery-  is an historic art museum located at 8th and F Streets NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Weekly Vocabulary

1. Freelancer- working for different companies at different times rather than being permanently employed by one company
2. VII Photo Agency-  a photo agency representing 30 photojournalists, known for its focus on conflict photography
3. Realism- the attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Friday, April 11, 2014

Weekly Vocabulary


1. Bahaus- was an art school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught
2. Dallmeyer Telephoto Lens-  is a specific type of a long-focus lens in which the physical length of the lens is shorter than the focal length
3. Photomicrograph-a photograph of a microscopic object, taken with the aid of a microscope

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Weekly Vocabulary

1. Vest Pocket Kodak-  was a "vest pocket" strutfolding camera advertised as "The Soldier's camera" during WWI
2. Meniscus Lens-  a convex-concave lens and is thicker at the center than at the edges
3. Rapid Rectinear Lens (RR Lens)- is made of a symmetrical pair of cemented doublets

Clone Stamp

Before

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Friday, March 28, 2014

Weekly Vocabulary

1. Photodetector- a device that detects or responds to incident light by using the electrical effect of individual photons.
2. Infrared-  having a wavelength just greater than that of the red end of the visible light spectrum but less than that of microwaves
3. Light-emitting diode-  is a two-lead semiconductor light source that resembles a basic pn-junction diode, except that an LED also emits light
4.Thermal imaging camera-  is a type of thermographic camera used in firefighting

5 Panoramic Pictures






Thursday, March 20, 2014

Weekly Vocabulary

1. Panoramic Photography-  is a technique of photography, using specialized equipment or software, that captures images with elongated fields of view
2. Colour Banding-  is a problem of inaccurate colour presentation in computer graphics
3. Dither-  to reduce distortion of low-amplitude signals.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

20 Motion Pictures


Weekly Vocabulary

1. Magnum Photos-  is an international photographic cooperative owned by its photographer-members, with offices located in New York, Paris, London and Tokyo.
2. Black Propaganda- is false information and material that purports to be from a source on one side of a conflict, but is actually from the opposing side
3. White Propaganda-  propaganda that comes from the source it claims to come from
4. Grey Propaganda-  propaganda that does not identify its source

Friday, March 7, 2014

Weekly Vocabulary

1. Staged Photography-involves a performance enacted before the camera, taken to the arrested dramas of tableaux vivants and poses plastiques
2. Tableau Photography-pictures as of a scene
3. Pictorial Photography-  is the name given to an international style and aesthetic movement that dominated photography during the later 19th and early 20th centuries

Football 2013 10 photo GIF


Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Weekly Vocabulary

1. Soft Focus-is a lens flaw, in which the lens forms images that are blurred due to spherical aberration
2. Surrealism-a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind
3. Cropping- taking a certain part of a picture
4. Anamorphic Format-refers to the cinematography technique of shooting a widescreen picture on standard 35 mm film or other visual recording media with a non-widescreen native aspect ratio

Friday, February 21, 2014

Weekly Vocabulary

1.GIF- animation in a photo
2. Zoopraxiscope- an early device for displaying motion pictures
3. Kinetoscope- an early motion-picture device in which the images were viewed through a peephole
4. Chronophotography-  is an antique photographic technique from the Victorian era, which captures movement in several frames of print

GIF Animation


Monday, February 10, 2014

Weekly Vocabulary

1. Conceptual Photography-  a type of photography that illustrates an idea
2. Stock Photography-   the supply of photographs licensed for specific uses
3. Microstock Photography-  a type of stock photography where amateur and hobbyist photographers submit photos for online distribution at a much lower cost than those sourced from typical stock photo vendors
4. istock Photography-  is the supply of photographs licensed for specific uses done by one person

Thursday, February 6, 2014

10 Photo Story











Pop Art


Weekly Vocabulary

1. Pop Art-  is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States
2. Dadaism- an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century
3. Photomontage- The technique of making a picture by assembling pieces of photographs, often in combination with other types of graphic material.
4. Constructivism-  was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1919, which was a rejection of the idea of autonomous art

Friday, January 17, 2014

Weekly Vocabulary

1.Collage- a set a photos put all together
2. Sepia Toning-  toning is a method of changing the color of black-and-white photographs
3.Selenium Toning-  is a chemical process carried out on silver-based photographic prints
4. Duotone- a halftone illustration made from a single original with two different colors at different screen angles.

Personal Triptych Photo