Aperture refers to the opening of a lens diaphragm through which light passes. Photographers can manually control the aperture by switching to ‘A’ or ‘AV’ mode and then changing the f/stops using the dial on their camera It is generally written as numbers such as 1.4, 2, 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11 and 16. The lower the f/stop, the bigger the hole, meaning it lets more light into the picture and it is a larger aperture. The higher the f-number, the smaller the hole, meaning less light is let into the photo and the aperture is lower.
Aperture also effects the Depth of Field. The wider the aperture, the less depth of field you capture, causing a blurred background as the focus point is on the subject. The smaller the aperture, the deeper the depth of field, resulting in a sharper background.
The word Photography literally means ‘drawing with light’, which derives from the Greek photo, meaning light and graph, meaning to draw. Photography can mean so many different things to people and make people feel different emotions.
Camera Obscura
A camera obscura is a dark room with a small hole in one wall. When it’s bright outside, light enters through the hole and projects an upside down image of the outside world onto the wall opposite the hole. Artists from the Renaissance onwards used a camera obscura, Latin for dark chamber, or a small hole in the wall of a darkened box that would pass light through the hole and project an upside down image of whatever was outside the box.
Example of how it works
Nicephore Niepce
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, commonly known or referred to simply as Nicéphore Niépce, was a French inventor, usually credited as the inventor of photography and a pioneer in that field. He created the first permanent photographic image in 1827.
Louis Daguerre invented a method and called it “daguerreotype.” His method, which he disclosed to the public late in the summer of 1839, consisted of treating silver-plated copper sheets with iodine to make them sensitive to light, he would then expose them in a camera and “developing” the images with warm mercury vapor.
Daguerre took the first photograph with a living person in 1838 or 1839. It is a view of a busy street, but because of the exposure time was at least ten minutes the moving traffic left no trace. Only the two men at the bottom left corner, one apparently having his boots polished by the other. The men were in one place for long enough to be visible.
Henry Fox Talbot
William Henry Fox Talbot FRS FRSE FRAS was an English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries.
Richard Maddox
Richard Leach Maddox was an English photographer and physician who invented lightweight gelatine negative plates for photography in 1871.
George Eastman
George Eastman was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream.
The Brownie was a series of cameras made by Eastman Kodak. Released in 1900, it introduced the snapshot to the masses. It was a basic cardboard box camera with a simple convex-concave lens that took 2 1/4-inch square pictures on No. 117 roll film. It was conceived and marketed for sales of Kodak roll films.
An Eastman Kodak 2-D 8×10 can be sold in good condition for $468 in 2021. A vintage Kodak Retina II 35mm camera with leather case sold for about $220.
Film/Print Photography
Film, also called motion picture or movie, series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen by means of light. There are three general types of film cameras: SLRs, compacts, and rangefinders. As a film set photographer, you work for a studio and shoot photos during the production process that can be used for marketing and other promotional activities.
Digital photography uses cameras containing arrays of electronic photodetectors interfaced to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to produce images focused by a lens, as opposed to an exposure on photographic film. There are two types of digital image files fall into one of two categories: vector or raster. Each format has advantages and disadvantages in different situations, so knowing the properties of each can help determine which format is the best choice for any project.
What is purpose of photography?
When you take a photograph and share it with others, you’re showing a moment that was frozen through a picture. This moment can tell someone many things, from the environment to what people are doing.
Leap into the void
‘Leap Into the void ‘
Leap into the void is an example of where photography can be interpreted in many different ways. Viewers may feel fear but be intrigued to keep reading into the image and the story behind it. Some may believe this is a live image of what happened, but instead is a set up staged picture. Two images were taken one with men ready to catch him in tar-pooling and then he was cut out and put into empty image creating a documentary photography. It was in this mass-produced form that the artist’s seminal gesture was communicated to the public and also notably to the Vienna Activists. The photograph may have some representation of the world at the time in the 1960s.
‘photographs confuse as much as fascinate, conceal as much as reveal, distract as much as compel. They are unpredictable communicators.’
This quote relates to the image as the image confuses the audience as to why he jumping off the building but also fascinates. The image distracts but compels you to dive deeper into the story behind it. This is what makes the photograph so interesting as the viewer has so many questions, they start to research and look further into the meaning.
Still life photography is a genre of photography used for the depiction of inanimate subject matter, typically a small group of objects.
Because still life’s are in fact still, they became photography’s favourite subject back in its earliest days. Soon after the creation of the first ever photograph in 1839, it was convenient for pioneer photographers to take pictures of something that’s not moving. The reason was simple and technical enough: exposures were fairly long, so long it even took days for an image to come to life, so an inanimate object was perfect for the occasion. These works tended to resemble still life depicted in paintings, so much they even used the same objects and arrangements. As the photographic camera improved, still life was no longer a necessity, but it nevertheless remained one of the most attempted types of photo making Today, this kind of photography mostly lives in form of advertising shots, as their demand on the market is quite high, but its existence in terms of the arts certainly did not go cease either, as many photographers still do it for pure aesthetic reasons, for instance.
Where still life photography originated
still life photography’s origins reside in the early 20th century. Art photographers emerged such as Baron Adolf de Meyer. The Baron was known for his highly artistic approach to photography, as he employed darkroom techniques and used soft-focus lenses to create photographs that looked like drawings, which was fashionable at the time.
John Baldessari is an American photograph who was born on the 17th of June 1931 and died on the 2nd of January 2020. He lived and worked in Santa Monica and Venice, California.
John Baldessari was known for his pioneering use of appropriated imagery. By blending photos with painting and text. His photos examine the plastic nature of artistic media while offering commentary on our contemporary culture.
Adobe Lightroom classic is an editing software where photographers can edit there photos. its like photoshop just a bit worse.
this is the library section of Lightroom where you can see all your photos, you can also make a collection to organise your photo. For example if you have a lot of photos then you can put your best photo in a collection. this is development this is where you can edit your photos and put filters on them if your in a rush to put them on a website or social media. on the right is where you can manual edit the photos and on the left is already set filters for your photo.
Lightroom classic was made on the 19 of February 2007
When using Lightroom Classic you are able to filter through your photos and choose the best ones for you.
You can pick and discard each imagine using white and black flags and with the photos you pick you are able to rate out of 5 stars then colour code with a red amber green system to decide which photos will be in final use.
This systems allows you to avoid clutter and becoming overwhelmed with too much to choose from.
In the image above is my catalogue after using the filtering system, as you can see i have a significantly reduced the amount of photos to choose from allowing me to make sure I have the best result.
Collections
Here we made a collection to help organise to allow me to find my pictures easier using the collections as if they are sub folders.
