Friday, December 20, 2013

30 Photo Challenge

Something White

Something Purple

Something Orange

Something Green

Childhood Memory- Watching Football

Reflection

Bokeh

Sun Flare

Close-Up

My Car

From a Distance

What I Wore Today

Hand

Fruit

Something Blue

Animal

Something Pink

Faceless Self Portrait

Clouds

My Shoes

Flowers

From a Low Angle

People I Love

Eye

Technology

From a High Angle

Monday, December 16, 2013

Black and White PSD


Long Exposure Light Painting


Weekly Vocab.

Fill Flash: 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 photography: popular form of photography used to chronicle significant and historical events. It is typically covered in professional photojournalism, or real life reportage, but it may also be an amateur, artistic, or academic

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

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Ambrotypephotograph that creates a positive image on a sheet of glass using the wet plate collodion 
process

Tintypephotograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of iron coated with a dark lacquer 
or enamel and used as the support for the photographic emulsion

Heliography photographic process invented by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce around 1822,which he used to 
make the earliest known permanent photograph from nature

Daguerreotypefirst publicly announced photographic process

Monday, December 2, 2013


Fisheye:an ultra wide-angle lens that produces strong visual distortionintended to create a wide panoramic or hemispherical image

Macro:extreme close-up photography, usually of very small subjects, in which the size of the subject in the photograph is greater than life size

Telephoto:specific type of a long-focus lens in which the physical length of the lens is shorter than the focal length

Tuesday, November 19, 2013


Long Exposure Photography - using a long-duration shutter speed to sharply capture the stationary elements of images while blurring, smearing, or obscuring the moving elements

Light Painting - technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera


Solargraphy - technique in which a fixed pinhole camera is used to expose photographic paper for an extremely long amount of time


Calotype - early photographic process introduced in 1841 by William Henry Fox Talbot, using paper coated with silver iodide

Friday, November 8, 2013

Monday, November 4, 2013

Metadata Data about data. Metadata describes how and when and by whom a particular set of data was collected, and how the data is formatted.

DPI measure of spatial printing or video dot density, in particular the number of individual dots that can be placed in a line within the span of 1 inch (2.54 cm)

PPI measurement of the resolution of devices in various contexts

5 Pros of Print Photo: 

1) Printing your own photos at home is a convenient and quick


2) With simple photo editing techniques and limited skill, you can produce some add effects before you print them

3) You control the quality and finish of paper you use

4) Professional photo printing shop can do a great job for you and offer basic printing at a price that aren't too expensive.Also it saves you the hassle and they're adept at improving poor quality images and offering a good range of papers and finishes

5) Choose black and white or color

5 Cons of Print Photo:


1) Not straightforward 

2) Expensive to print your own photos at home.  If you need really high quality images, the sort of printer you’d need would be really expensive to buy 

3) High cost of the ink and paper 

4) Easier to go to a shop

5) Having to go to a shop, waiting to have your photos printed limited choice of paper type and finish
http://www.photopaperdirect.com/blog/?p=264


5 Pros of digital photo:

1) Immediate
2) Easy to change
3) Easy to distribute
4) Lighter cameras
5) Memory cards store more than rolls of film


5 cons of digital photo:


1) Higher initial cost of the camera
2) Need for a computer to process the digital photographs
3) Battery life as compared to the life of the battery inside a film camera
4) Longer shutter lag on many digital devices
5) Complex for new users


http://natalieroe7.blogspot.com/2012/10/pros-and-cons-of-film-vs-digital.html

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Aperture - a hole or an opening through which light travels

Shutter Speed - length of time a camera's shutter is open when taking a photograph

ISO - an archive file of an optical disc

Monday, October 14, 2013

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Shape

Volume

Balance

Harmony

Line

Texture

Color

Value

Movement

Contrast

Rhythm