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Monday, December 14, 2015

Weekly Vocabulary 12/14/15

Brownie Camera: Brownie is the name of a long-running popular series of simple and inexpensive cameras made by Eastman Kodak.
The Brownie popularized low-cost photography and introduced the concept of the snapshot.

Leica Camera: a German optics enterprise and manufacture of Leica cameras.

Magnum Photos: An international photographic cooperative owned by its photographer-members, with offices in New York, Paris, London and Tokyo. According to co-founder Henri Cartier-Bresson "Magnum is a community of thought, a shared human quality, a curiosity about what is going on in the world, a respect for what is going on and a desire to transcribe it visually."

Monday, December 7, 2015

Weekly Vocabulary 12/7/2015

Large Format Photography: Large format refers to any imaging format of 4×5 inches (102×127 mm) or larger. 

Miniature Faking: Miniature faking, also known as diorama effect or diorama illusion, is a process in which a photograph of a life-size location or object is made to look like a photograph of a miniature scale resource.

View Camera: The view camera is a type of camera first developed in the era of the daguerrotype (1840s-'50s) and still in use today, though with many refinements. It comprises a flexible bellows that forms a light-tight seal between two adjustable standards, one of which holds a lens, and the other a viewfinder or a photographic holder.

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Weekly Vocabulary 12/2/2015

Premo Camera: box camera is a simple type of camera, the most common form being a cardboard or plastic box with a lens in one end and film at the other. They were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The lenses are often single element designs meniscus fixed focus lens, or in better quality box cameras a doublet lens with minimal (if any) possible adjustments to the aperture or shutter speeds. Because of the inability to adjust focus, the small lens aperture and the low sensitivity of the sensitive materials available, these cameras work best in brightly lit day-lit scenes when the subject is within the hyper focal lenses for the lens and of subjects that move little during the exposure — snapshots. 

Photo-secession: The Photo-Secession was an early-20th-century movement that promoted photography as a fine art in general and photographic pictorialism particular. 

Pictorialism: refers to a style in which the photographer has somehow manipulated what would otherwise be a straightforward photograph as a means of "creating" an image rather than simply recording it.

Friday, November 20, 2015

Elements of Art and Principles of Design

Elements of Art
Principles of Design

Line


Shape


Color


Shape


Texture


Space


Value


Pattern


Contrast


Emphasis


Proportion


Order/ Harmony


Movement