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