Photography what is it? 10 tips for amateurs (LINK)
October 10th 2007 04:38
This definition comes from Wikipedia which states a photograph (often shortened to photo) is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see. The process of creating photographs is called photography.
Motion pictures, such as film or video, are generally considered to be sequences of photographs.
A CCD is a charged-coupled device
A CMOS is complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
Now, if you really want to know what that means, put on a comment and I'll tell you next time. For all intents and purposes the next two images show the difference.
CCD image sensors are often used in the professional security cameras, so stop worrying.
CMOS sensors are often used in the cameras for computer.
But compare the two images and then we'll move on to some easier stuff.
Exactly What Is a Photograph?
Monday, Dec. 20, 1976 By ROBERT HUGHES {Time Magazine Article}
This was written in 1976
At 64 (as was the situation, then) Harry Callahan undoubtedly ranks as one of the world's great living photographers.
So that's something to think about, isn't it?
But what do most amateur photographers do wrong. You'll find it all in the link above but just to wet your appetite:
1. Images are too cluttered (less is more)
2. There is no Bad Weather in Photography
3. No Patience
4. The Digital Attitude
5. The Photoshop Attitude
6. Unwanted things in a scene
7. Always shooting from eye level while standing up
8. Placing People in the Picture
9. Not including other people
10. Wrong Perspective
Now you'll find lots of images to illustrate and written discussion, so rush to the link, you'll love it.
But don't be deterred he's probably been doing it full time for years.
And I'll give you some of the images which should be helpful.
Images later in the day.
Motion pictures, such as film or video, are generally considered to be sequences of photographs.
A CCD is a charged-coupled device
A CMOS is complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
Now, if you really want to know what that means, put on a comment and I'll tell you next time. For all intents and purposes the next two images show the difference.
CCD image sensors are often used in the professional security cameras, so stop worrying.
CMOS sensors are often used in the cameras for computer.
But compare the two images and then we'll move on to some easier stuff.
CMOS view
CCD image
Exactly What Is a Photograph?
Monday, Dec. 20, 1976 By ROBERT HUGHES {Time Magazine Article}
This was written in 1976
One of the most eye-haunting images in the big retrospective of 195 photographs by Harry Callahan is called simply Eleanor, Chicago, 1949. It is the broad, pale face of a big-jawed woman—in fact, Callahan's wife, Eleanor Knapp—rising from Lake Michigan. Her eyes are closed. Her dark hair, parted in the middle, falls in thick ropes that swash in the water. Because the body is hidden by the murky wavelets, the head has a dreaming, apparitional quality, a look reinforced by the waving tendrils of hair. Yet nothing about the photograph invites one to read it as a narrative of emotion. The camera's rendering is exceedingly spare, fastidious in its detachment. Its formal rigor—down to the last rhyme between the wet locks and their paler shadow on the water's wrinkled skin—is intimidating. This Midwestern naiad, one realizes, is Callahan's Mona Lisa.
At 64 (as was the situation, then) Harry Callahan undoubtedly ranks as one of the world's great living photographers.
So that's something to think about, isn't it?
But what do most amateur photographers do wrong. You'll find it all in the link above but just to wet your appetite:
1. Images are too cluttered (less is more)
2. There is no Bad Weather in Photography
3. No Patience
4. The Digital Attitude
5. The Photoshop Attitude
6. Unwanted things in a scene
7. Always shooting from eye level while standing up
8. Placing People in the Picture
9. Not including other people
10. Wrong Perspective
Now you'll find lots of images to illustrate and written discussion, so rush to the link, you'll love it.
But don't be deterred he's probably been doing it full time for years.
Oh, my Gosh!
And I'll give you some of the images which should be helpful.
Guess
This?
or That?
This
or That?
Images later in the day.
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