Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Thursday, May 29, 2014
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
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
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
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
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
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
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
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
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
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
Friday, February 14, 2014
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
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 31, 2014
Thursday, January 23, 2014
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.
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