Photography

• Photography - The art of capturing light with a camera, usually via a digital sensor or film, to create an image.
• • With the right camera equipment, you can even photograph wavelengths of light invisible to the human eye, including UV, infrared, and radio waves.
• What is Photography used for?

  • Creating art
  • Documenting events
  • Producing commercial work
• • Pictures of poverty may carry emotional overtones that may solicit action or awareness from their audience
• Examples of Photography Subjects

  • Landscape photo showcasing icebergs in Greenand
• Examples of Photography Subjects

  • Wildlife photo that features a waddle of King penguins on South Georgia Island
• Examples of Photography Subjects

  • Architectural details from the sublime Temple of Heaven in Beijing, China
• Examples of Photography Subjects

  • People photos including formal portraits, candid moments, and sports and action photography
• History of Photography

  • The word, derived from the Greek "photos" meaning "light" and "graphein" meaning "to draw", was first used in the 1830s
• History of Photography

  • The first permanent photograph was captured in 1826 by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in France
• History of Photography

  • "View from the Window at Le Gras" by Joseph Nicephore Niepce
• • Color photography only started to become popular and accessible with the release of Eastman Kodak's "Kodachrome" film in the 1930s
• • Louis Daguerre invented The Daguerreotype (first commercial photographic material)
• • The Daguerreotype is what really made photography a practical reality - although it was still just an expensive curiosity to many people at this point
• • Alfred Stieglitz was a photographer but he was also one of the first influential members of the art community to take photography seriously as a creative medium
• • Alfred believed that photographs could express the artist's vision just as well as paintings or music
• • Dorothea Lange was one of the most prominent documentary photographers of all time, and the photographer behind one of the most influential images ever.
• • Dorothea's photos shaped the field of documentary and showed the camera's potential as a storytelling and reportage tool
• • "Migrant Mother", Dorothea Lange's most famous photograph
• • Ansel Adams helped usher in an era of realism in landscape photography, and he was an early champion of the environmentalism and preservation movements in the United State
• • "The Tetons and the Snake River" by Ansel Adams.
• Do You Need a Fancy Camera?

  • Apple became the world's first trillion-dollar company in 2018 largely because of the iPhone and what it replaced: Alarm clocks, Flashlights, Calculators, MP3 players, Landline phones, GPSs, Audio recorders, and Cameras.
• The photograph is evident in nearly every aspect of modern life:

  • As a form of communication and documentation, photographs are present in newspapers, magazines, advertisements, posters, television, the Internet, passports, ID cards, archives, security and Surveillance Systems, forensics, and medicine.
• Photography in Domestic and Recreational Activities:

  • Most photographs produced today take the form of Snapshots documenting activities such as holidays and celebrations.
• Photography in Domestic and Recreational Activities:

  • With the prevalence of digital cameras and mobile phone cameras, these activities are also documented for display on photo-sharing websites and photo-based Social Networking Sites.
• Gear Needed for Photography:

  1. Camera
  2. Lenses
  3. Post-processing software
• Things that is optional, but can be very helpful:

  1. Tripod
  2. Memory cards
  3. Extra batteries
  4. Polarizing filter
  5. Flash