12 Days of Christmas

Mr. Lambert's Retirement! :(

Turtledove

Weekly Vocab

Zone System:  photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development, formulated by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer; a systematic method of precisely defining the relationship between the way they visualize the photographic subject and the final results



Bromoil System: an early photographic process that was very popular with the Pictorialists during the first half of the twentieth century; soft qualities based on the oil print



Photo-Secession:  an early-20th-century movement that promoted photography as a fine art in general and photographic pictorialism in particular; belief that what was significant about a photograph was not what was in front of the camera but the manipulation of the image by the artist/photographer to achieve his or her subjective vision.

Red Bride

Day in the Life: Prom/Ball 2014

Weekly Vocab

Speed Graphic Camera: commonly called the most famous press camera; a slow camera. Each exposure required the photographer to change the film sheet, focus the camera, cock the shutter, and press the shutter, coining the phrase "Just one more!" since lots of shots were missed




Contax Camera: a brand of camera noted for its technical innovation and wide range of Zeiss lenses, known for their high optical quality. Its final incarnation was a line of 35 mm, medium format, and digital cameras 



Polaroid Spectra: Classic Polaroid camera with a manual flash and self-timer; produces images slightly larger than 600 and SX-70 images.