Golden Hour (5+)

LEADING LINES (5+)

Photography Words and Terms

AESTHETIC - The qualities that combine to make something look the way it does.













CAMERA OBSCURA - A blacked-out chamber with
a small hole through which light gets compressed. First
written observation was by Mo Ti, in China, circa 400 BC.










EXPOSURE - The length of time light enters the camera
OVER EXPOSURE - Too much light
UNDER EXPOSURE - Too little light














FOCAL POINT - The center if interest/activity













EXPOSURE TRIANGLE -














APERTURE - Opening into the camera










SHUTTER - Mechanism that allows light to
enter the camera for precise period of time.






ISO - the sensitivity of the sensor/film.








WHITE BALANCE (WB) - The Temperature
Of the Light being photographed.






APERTURE & DEPTH OF FIELD - Aperture is
the size of the opening into the camera, and the larger
the aperture the smaller sliver of focus you will have.


HISTORY & ARTISTS:
Joseph Nicephore Niepce
Made the world's first photograph in 1827
The exposure time was approx. Eight hours.

View From The Window at Le Gras. France. 1827.

FIRST PHOTO OF A PERSON - 1839
BY LOUIS DAGUERRE












http://mashable.com/2014/11/05/first-photograph-of-a-human/#sisMPxIjigqH

MATTEW BRADY
Civil War PhotoGrapher
1860s


EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE
1830-1904
English
Pioneer In Photographing Motion
Created the Zoopraxiscope (1879)
"The Gallop"


Juliet Margaret Cameron
1815-1879

  Known for soft focus and 'painterly' quality of her images
  She was panned as not serious enough as a photographer
  Accepted by painters more than photographers

Edward Curtis
1868 - 1952
Photography & Ethnologist
Focused on documenting the american west


Jacob Riis
1849-1914
Grew up in poverty.
Considered to be the father of photojournalism
Photographed the tenements/ Slums of NYC to raise awareness of the poor.

Lewis Hine
1874-1940
Photographer and Socialist
Used Camera for social change and refrorm
Photographed mines, cotton mills and factories to document working children




HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON
1908-2004
A master of street photography.
Known for the decisie moment


Manuel Àlvarez Bravo
1902-2002
Pioneer of artistic photography in Mexico.
Most important figure in 20th-century Latin American photography.Captured the history of Mexican society and culture Street photography, folk art & rituals, human interaction.


ART THEORY & AESTHETICS

Contrast- The difference between light and dark
Value- The intensity of a color
Hue- the color
Shade- Adding black to a hue

Rule of Thirds
A compositional theory where the main subject matter is placed in an intersecting point based on a division of thirds vertically & horizontally. 

PINHOLE NEGATIVES & POSITIVES

Pinhole negatives and positives
Tünayden.