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Friday, November 20, 2015

Weekly Vocabulary

Camera Obscura is a  darkened box with a convex lens or aperture for projecting the image of an external object onto a screen inside.




Speed Graphic Camera is a two shuttered camera that took pictures slowly.




Contax Camera has really good resolution and is high quality.

Andreas Feininger

                           I really like the contrast between the dark and the light in the city.

          I like this picture because it just looks mysterious with the smoke coming out of the train.

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Cubist Portrait











Margaret Bourke-White






                                       
I like the bold and strong colors used in this photo,
she looks passionate and dedication to what she does





                                          This picture is very calming and has a natural atmosphere.

Monday, November 2, 2015

Diane Arbus

                                          I like the playfulness and happiness in this picture.
                               I enjoy the background as well as the characters in the picture.

Weekly Vocabulary

Raw is a file that contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. 

Tiff is a flexible, adaptable file format for handling images and data within a single file, by including the header tags the image's geometry.

JPEG is a lossy compression technique for color images. Although it can reduce files sizes to about 5% of their normal size, some detail is lost in the compression.



Herb Ritts


                              I like the contrast from the dark and light, swell as the shadows.
                                   I like the simplicity and class that this picture portrays.

Week Vocabulary

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.

Documentary Photographer usually refers to a popular form that's used to chronicle both significant and relevant to history and historical events and everyday life. 

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