2010
09.02
The development of photography in history can be quite confusing and nailing down a timeline can be even more confusing. I’ll try to break down the very basic timelines of early photography here. Please keep in mind, many subjects involving timelines are very debatable. This is not the be all end all resource of early photography.
The principles of optics and the camera were known in B.C., though photography had a long way to go. In the 1500’s Leonardo da Vinci had made drawings of a camera obscura, a darkroom that went back to around 1000 AD, but it wasn’t until the 1600’s that Isaac Newton figured out white light, and the 1700’s when Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that when exposed to light, silver nitrate darkened.
It wasn’t until the 1800’s until photography got very, very interesting. Around 1825-1827, Joseph Niépce was credited with producing the first intentional photographic image. There w...
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2010
09.01
Nowadays internet has become a popular tool to share and promote everything, including photography works. You may also think the same and thus you want to establish an online photography gallery. This article gives the advantages and disadvantages of online photography gallery so you can be prepared on what you expect to get and problems that you will face.
The advantages of an online photography gallery
The most important advantage of an online photography gallery is the global audience that you can reach. This is an effective and the easiest way to introduce your photography works to the world. Internet is an excellent marketing tool if you understand how to use it properly. In addition, you can place an e-commerce capability in the gallery so visitors can buy your works directly from the site.
Making a personal online photography gallery is a good start, but you should not stop here as you need to display your talent as much as possible. The next step is to j...
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2010
08.31
When you began taking photographs you often wondered whether today was the day you would make a masterpiece and take a photo that was undoubtedly a work of art. This however would only come if you knew what your depth of field in photography was all about.
Many people don’t really understand what depth of field in photography entails. They may have actually seen it but they don’t know what it means and why photographers do it. I won’t lie as a beginner I didn’t have much of a clue on what I was doing until a great photographer showed me the light and how to use it. Some important facts that do go with this subject would be image magnification, lens aperture setting and the focal length of your lens.
Depth of field in photography can be simply slated as the amount of background scenery and foreground scenery that is portrayed in your photograph. Basically what this means whenever you are taking a photographic scene, the sharpness in front and behind of your spe...
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2010
08.30
As you advance in your photography skills, you might want to change the settings of your camera from auto to semi manual. This is because as your interests grow so does your skill in photography. As you move from auto settings that means you had the chance of learning more on how to adjust your settings to what you like and this way you get to improve your images according to how you like them.
Sports photography is a nice way in which you get to show that your semi manual skills are as good as you think they are. Taking photos of sports is not easy because you must set your lighting just right in order not to overexpose the image as well as set up your shutters so that they can work at the speed you need to get every move a player makes.
If you have trained to become a professional photographer than most of those settings won’t bother you. If they do then maybe you will have to go for more classes. You will obviously have to have the right accessories with you like ...
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2010
08.29
Different imagery appeals to different photographers. From landscape photographers to artistic nude photographers and everyone in between, the photography world is a cornucopia of different styles, processes, and techniques.
For amateur photographers, it is hard to know what you will eventually want to shoot as you’ve yet to experience the many different paths one can take, so amateurs are usually generalists – they’ll shoot anything and everything. As you progress through your budding career, you’ll quickly learn what you love to shoot and what you hate to shoot and you’ll develop your very own style.
Here is a summary of two different types of popular photography today:
Nude Photography
Very rewarding and artistic, capturing the nude has fascinated artists from all walks of life. Photographers can capture such glorious images that play with light and shadow, and that push the boundaries of everyday living. The limitless potential and taboo aura ...
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