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16
Oct
2011
HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY UP TO 1888
For those of us alive today, we have witnessed the advent of the digital photography age. A huge bulk of youthful men and women even have their very own cameras. Social networking websites these as Facebook motivate their members to upload several albums to create a type of picture-journal for your daily life. Let us just take a search back at the background of cameras and photography to see just how far this art form has occur.
One popular, early ancestor of present-day photograph-snappers had been named digicam obscuras. They did not function in the way we believe of cameras as a substitute, they ended up more like projectors. In historical instances, digicam obscuras ended up only in a position to undertaking upside-down, yet proportionate, in color, and in standpoint. The very first digicam obscura was designed by Alhazen, and was truly referred to as a pinhole camera at 1st. In the 18th century, men and women figured out how to turn the picture appropriate aspect up employing mirrors.
In 1727, Professor J. Schulze unintentionally designed the initial photosensitive substance when he mixed chalk, nitric acid, and silver. He noticed that when this compound was uncovered to sunlight, it darkened. Some ... [more..]
11
Jul
2011
WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY TECHNIQUE – POSING AND P...
Photographing The BrideYour wedding photography technique will improve dramatically if you pay particular attention throughout the day to the Brides appearance. She is the most important person in your photographs. Before firing the shutter always check that she is looking her best. Pay specific attention to the stance of the Bride. She should be posed by asking her to stand at a slight angle to the camera. The foot nearest to the camera should be extended forward three or four inches towards the camera with the knee slightly bent. Now ask her to transfer her weight to the foot farthest away from the camera.Her head should be turned towards the camera and tilted slightly. Avoid straight limbs, for example arms and wrists should always suggest a gentle curving, almost flowing movement.Flowing LinesWhen you are composing a full-length portrait of the bride, make sure that you position the bouquet where you would a fig leaf! When you place the bouquet in this position the arms will look more graceful.Ensure a gentle curvature of the elbows. If you allow the bride to hold the bouquet higher than this, you cover the detail in the waistline and body of the dress, and you ... [more..]
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06
Jul
2011
THE HISTORY OF REPORTAGE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY
Reportage Wedding Photography is still thought by many to be a recent trend in photography. In fact it has a long heritage and was often called candid photography in the context of a wedding. Seen by extreme traditionalists (a rare breed now) as a new fad, it was felt to threaten the supremacy of the medium format camera with its staged shots and posed set ups.In the old style, photographers always had a big camera set up on a tripod and even a hood over the head of the photographer. This Very formal and very posed art of portraiture was born, like so many of today's cultural norms, of technological limitations. Way back when, photographic technology required long exposure times, long winded plate or film changes and "keep still" poses. Fast 35 mm film basically solved this problem, again with certain limitations. Lighter cameras holding rolls meant that photojournalistic techniques could be applied to wedding photography.The game changer was that wedding photography needed no longer to be posed. Wedding Photography could now become Reportage Photography. Precious moments, unrepeatable in a pose are only possible with the participants being unaware that a camera is in use. Fast film offered this to ... [more..]
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