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

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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