Photography has been around since the beginning of time.

It has changed significantly through

the years until it is what it has become now, even today photography is still advancing. Let me

take you through photography history, Nicephore Niepce started this process called Heliography

invented in 1824. Heliography was used based off of light, natural sunlight, the sunlight is

reflected on a moveable mirror. For Niépce’s process he put the image obtained with bitumen

on a silver plate to be exposed for a few days. In 1832 they would put touches of lavender oil

distillation on the images which means it took the process an extra day. After this in 1833

Niépce died and his partner Daguerre invented the daguerreotype, which was the first process

that included a development stage.

A silver plate coated in silver iodide would be exposed in a camera obscura. Exposure time

was hardly 30 minutes. After a man named Hippolyte Bayard in 1839 discovered a way to

obtain positive images on paper. A sheet of paper covered with silver chloride was blackened by

light, then exposed to a camera obscura. Then the exposure time was 30 minutes to 2 hours.

To skip forward a couple years in 1888 Georges Eastman conducted the idea of a supple

base. Glass plates were replaced by celluloid rolls but photography was still missing color

reproduction. The first tries were in 1848 and 1851 but it was unstable. In 1896 Louis Hauron,

he made the first colorized photograph. For this process there were 3 filters red, yellow, and

blue. He obtained three positives that he dyed with the corresponding to each filter. Then he got

the restitution of the colors. The list of people goes on and on, the color process didn’t stop

there. It went on to Gabriel Lippman and R. Fisher. Which they got the process down and they

didn’t even work as a team! The process ended in 1911.

Composition sums up the regards of photography, the composition of a image is the way a

person puts their picture in frame to form the final image. You can alter the composition by

moving around, zooming in or zooming out, changing lenses, or changing your posture/position

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by crouching or kneeling. There is a endless hole for composition, you can do anything you

think of. Here is a quick 5 tips for using composition: Movement Of The Eye, Rule Of Thirds,

Border Control, Leading Lines, Rule Of Odd Numbers, but here’s a bonus tip: Have Fun!

Some types of photographers that I think are pretty interesting are: Ansel Adams, Dorothea

Lange, Robert capa, Richard Avedon, Annie Leibovitz, Steve McCurry, and Robert Frank. Let

me tell you about all of these amazing people. Ansel Adams was a American landscape

photographer and environmentalist known for his black and white images of the American west.

He lived until 1902-1984. Dorothea Lange was a American documentary photographer and

photojournalist. She was best known for her Depression era work for farm security

administration. She lived from 1895-1965. Robert Capa was a Hungarian war photographer and

photojournalist. He was considered by some of the best combat and adventure photographer in

history. He lived from 1913-1954. Richard Avedon was a American fashion photographer and

portrait photographer. The New York Times said that “ His fashion and portrait photographs

helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half century”. He lived

until 1923-2004. Annie Leibovitz is a American portrait photographer. Well known for her

engaging portraits, mostly of celebrities, which often feature people in intimate settings and

poses. She is still alive today, 69 years old, with children, and a amazing life. Steve McCurry is a

American photographer, he is a freelancer and photojournalist. His famous photo is the “Afghan

girl”, the girl with green eyes that sometimes appears on National Geographic. He is still alive

today. Lastly, Robert Frank, Robert Frank is a Swiss-American photographer and documentary

filmmaker. His most famous work is the book titled The American, about the outsiders view of

American society. He is still alive, 94 years old.

Photography has advanced since all of those people, today there is a way you can edit your

photos and it’s called photoshop. Photoshop is a digitally editing software, photoshop has

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layers. Meaning once you want to edit a photo you have to make a layer to edit it correctly and

don’t delete or mess up any other layer. You can cut out objects, delete objects without starting

over, adjust images, flip them upside down, plus other features for adjusting people in photos.

Photoshop was created by American brothers Thomas and John Knoll who then sold it to

Adobe.

Photoshop has a lot of cool tools that helps unleash your creativity. Sometimes for the “best”

photoshop you can pay to get exclusive features and a lot more tools. While I’m talking about

features here’s some: they have brush management, brush stroke smoothing, lightroom photo

access, curvature pen tool, paint symmetry, group layering, quick share, and still much more!

Benefits of photoshop are you can apply any feature or effect you want and get consistent

results. A lot of people use this software to create a better quality image, because it has many

features that hardly are in any other photoshop. Also saying that photoshop can make you

create insane pictures and possibly make images look so realistic with non realistic features.

Most importantly though we are talking about the camera here so let me explain how the

camera is operated and what’s inside. The basic camera parts and functions are mostly, image

sensors, memory cards, even user controls.

The minute you look through a viewfinder or press the shutter button that’s operating the

insides of your camera. The shutter button is what tells the camera how fast to open the shutter

to let that light in, it’s measured in seconds. Either your camera automatically does it for you or

you could adjust it on top of the camera or on your screen.

Now that mirror inside of the camera reflects the light coming through the lens up to a prism

(meaning a lot of mirrors). And in the viewfinder so you can view what you took a picture of.

When you press the shutter button the mirror pops up, the shutter opens, and then the light hits

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the image sensor to create the final image! It’s a easy process once you get the hang of it, I

assure you.

Next, the F-stop is where you adjust the aperture, the aperture is the size of the shutter

opening. The F-stop and Shutter are the most important because that will obviously let you take

the picture you want.

ISO control basically is it’s reading how accurate the exposure is.

This is the best way to describe the most important things to remember. Higher the ISO lower

the shutter speed, then smaller the opening the bigger aperture. You’ll get the hang of it!

Next, the Flash is a built in light for either darker spaces or for a area that you think needs more

light. The flash isn’t on all cameras though they can be manually put on your camera if you buy

the camera and the flash separately, the flash usually pops out the minute you slightly hold on

the shutter release button.

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 Lastly, the Lens Ring Mount. The Lens Ring Mount allows you to interchange lenses. The

metal ring on the front of the camera will allow you to change the lens, the way you know that

the lens is fully on is hearing a “click” sound and you’re ready to go! Then when you want to pop

the lens off there is a Lens Release button to the left.

If your a beginner it can be difficult to first get started and understand how everything works.

Also finding the right supplies can be overwhelming with a lot of options. But I do have some

recommendations, Canon has a kit full of lenses, lens caps, SIM cards, battery grips, filters,

macros, a monopod, a tripod, and most importantly the camera. You can buy this at a

convenient store such as Walmart they sell this kit for 530 dollars. And yes I know it can be a bit

pricey but it’s totally worth it in the long run without buying separate pieces. But for your first

time I’d say start off with a point and shoot camera, a point and shoot camera is smaller than a

Canon. A point and shoot is basically done for you, when you take a picture it will come out

perfect and it’s very simple to operate. It does autofocus, automatic systems, automatic

exposure, and flash units built in. Then as you progressively get use to the point and shoot

move up to a more professional camera.

Different Types Of Photography Colleges consist of: of course there are still many different

options but here’s some suggestions if you want to make this a career!

•Rochester Institute Of Technology:

Rochester is a private doctoral university in the town of Henrietta. Located in Rochester.

•School of Visual Arts:

School of visual arts is a multidisciplinary college of art and design known for its faculty and
innovative curriculum. Located in New York City.

•Pratt Institute:
Pratt Institute is a private, nonsectarian, nonprofit, school for higher learning. Located in
Brooklyn.

•Watkins College Of Art:

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Watkins college is from a creative economy and fast becoming world's most dominant economic
sector. You can do art, design, film, and a lot more. Located in Nashville.

•Antonelli College:
Antonelli College is for profit training, with the main campus in Cincinnati. Located in Cincinnati.

•New York Institute Of Photography:

New York Institute is a profit online school based out of New York City, offering different courses
in photography to different students all around the world. Located in New York

•Kansas City Art Institute:

Kansas City art institute is a 4 year college providing art, design and media. Located in Kansas

•Maine College Of Art:

In Maine College you’ll develop studio practice using your head, heart, and hands. Being able to
unlock your full potential. Located in Maine.

•Massachusetts College Of Art and Design: Students can explore photography as art with

personal vision and experimentation. You’d begin with black and white film with other schools

do, you can do landscape, documentary, or film making.

•Columbia College: This College is the most competitive and largest in the nation. You get over

200 working stations for photography, and dark rooms, along with dark rooms with over 150

enlarging stations.

•Yale School Of Fine Art: Highly selective MFA program only admits 9 students per year. They

critique a panel for a final review each term. This college focuses on the broad definition of

photography.

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•California College Of The Arts: For undergraduates this College is broken into 3 parts: framing

of students, instruction and critique from the real world. Students are encouraged to take

internships with the Bay Area, galleries, and magazines.

•Arizona State University: Arizona State University is considered one of the finest institutions in

the country. Also, the got ranked in the top 20 in the country.

•Virginia Commonwealth University: Students are taught technical and artistic skills. They have

a fairly wide concentration areas. Individuals can express themselves, and they were ranked 4th

among public programs.

All these colleges offer great opportunities and interviews so you can get a photography career.

And let allow you to be yourself and learn new experiences. They might be difficult at first but I

bet you’ll do amazing no matter what happens in this process. Plus I want to be a photographer

as you can tell, it’s a different experience and you wouldn’t be sitting around all the time, you’d

be out adventuring and taking amazing pictures.

Now I talked about the DarkRoom a little bit and I’m going to give you some “keys” to working

into it. Many photographers have tried using photoshop and adobe and found out the process

very difficult, intimidating, and annoying. As a photographer you know what you want your

photos to look like, sometimes technology can be annoying and frustrating so people use a

dark room to be that “photoshop”. Experimenting without fear is probably the best to do with

photography and using a dark room, often photographers are scared to excitement but you can

possibly do anything you think of. Basically, if you don’t know by now what a dark room is, it’s a

pitch black room you can go into and take as many photos as you want and you wouldn’t have

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to do any editing. Unless you wanted to but you get pretty accurate pictures in a dark room. I

never had used one personally but I’ve been in one and seen pictures that were taken in one.

The pictures are very crisp and kind of unreal looking. But some people recommend using film

photos because they are better to process and the generally look better.

I’d like to show you some pictures and explain what they are and what type of medium:

This is a portrait. Called The Smokey Stoke. About adults who smoke cigarettes.

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This is a landscape photo. But the artist didn’t give a description.

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But this is just a little example of what people can do. A little secret though: I think you can do

better than these photographers.

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