Friday, December 20, 2013
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Weekly Vocab
Fill Flash: Photographic technique used to brighten deep shadow area; useful when the subject is backlit
Documentary Photographer: Photographer whose main job is to chronicle significant and historical events, such as a war photographer.
Magnesium Flare: Specific component made of magnesium used to illuminate backgrounds and subjects in photography, such as dark caves. Similar to a flash, but used to capture colors such as those of sparks from construction as well
Pretty significant example of fill flash |
Liberation of Bergen-belsen Concentration Camp, April 1945 |
Handheld flare like those used in concerts or photography with a long shutter speed |
Monday, December 16, 2013
Weekly Vocab
Ambrotype: 1850s-invented-photograph that creates a positive image on a sheet of glass using the wet plate collodion process, invented a few years earlier by Frederick Scott Archer.
Tintype: Photograph 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 during the 1860s and '70s.
Heliography: Photographic process invented by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce around 1822, using Bitumen of Judea, a naturally occurring asphalt, as a coating on glass or metal. It hardened in proportion to its exposure to light. When the plate was washed with oil of lavender, only the hardened areas remained. (kind of like mehndi)
Daguerreotype: Image formed on a silvered metal plate - or brass or copper - which was exposed to halogen fumes such as iodine, bromine, and chlorine in subdued light and transported to a camera via a light-tight plate holder.
Weekly Vocab
Long Exposure Photography: Photography using a long duration shutter speed to capture movement or light as well as blur, smear, or obscure those elements
Sunrise in the Alaskan forest |
Light Painting: Type of photography done by extending the shutter speed and using a moving light source to create patterns or shapes. Can also be created by moving or the camera or using a hand-held light source to light the subject
Glowing Guitar |
Solargraphy: Type of photography used to capture and track the moments of the sun
Six month track of sun from Helsinki, Finland |
Calotype: Early photographic process dating back to 1841 which uses paper coated with silver iodide
Negative of The Sphinx |
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
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