midterm Flashcards
year photography was invented
1839
one person accredited with inventing photography
- louis daquerre
- Joseph Niepce
- Fox talbot
“decisive moment”
Henri Cartier
group members of F/64
- Ansel Adams
2. Edward Weston
invention of digital photography began in
1980s
Sebastiao Salgado
renowned documentary photographer who took photographs of gold rush in his home country of brazil
subject of Cindy Sherman’s photographs
Herself
Robert Frank
an important swiss photographer who wrote The Americans in 1958
rule of thirds
imaginary guidelines in which the image is divided into thirds; two lines horizontal and two lines vertical. Image is most pleasing to the eye when it follows this rule as it creates balance and order.
horizontal lines
imply tranquility and are considered stable
ex: bow of a ship aligned with ocean horizon is calm
high camera point
gives viewer a sense of power or control over the image/scene
repetition
appeasing to the eye as it creates visual patterns, our emotional response to a single design element is multiplied when repeated, patterns also emphasize symbolism and increase volume of an image
diagonal lines
evoke sense of movement or speed, ladder leaned against house implies up and down movement
light meter should be
centered
Good setting for ISO and two effects of increasing your ISO
- 100
- ,camera requires more or ((less)) light and has larger grain or noise
Auto White balance
Different lights create different temperatures, AWB automatically adjusts the white balance in order to make colors as accurate as possible
-balances the majority of light
Bracketing
- Taking the same photo with an accurate exposure but changing the shutter speed and aperture
- we do this to see the effects of aperture (depth of field) and shutter speed
hue
a gradation or variety of a color; tint/shade
saturation
intensity or purity of a color
value/intensity
lightness or darkness of a color
Complementary colors
- red/green
- yellow/purple
- orange/blue
Cool color
blue which has a calming and serene psychological effect to the viewer
Good method for setting levels
dragging sliders to the beginning and end of the histogram
tools for density
- burn and dodge
- paint with light
- curves
tools for contrast
- curves
- levels
- brightness/contrast
tools for color
- hue/sat
- levels
- selective color
brush soft when painting with light
to edit the photo in a natural and realistic way
good opacity for painting with light
10%
two methods to adjust the yellow duck in bathtub
- marquee tool
- paint brush
two files that don’t compress
- tiff
- psd
file type and size of image for internet
- JPEG
- 8 x 10 @ 90 dpi
F stops (small to large hole)
f/64 f/45 f/32 f/22 f/16 f/11 f/8 f/5.6 f/4 f/2.8 f/2 f/1.4
shutter speeds (fastest to slowest)
1/1000s 1/500s 1/250s 1/125s 1/60s 1/30s 1/15s 1/8s 1/4s 1/2s 1s 2s
John Berger ways of seeing focuses on reproduction of
original artwork
exposure=intensity + time (E=it)
exposure=F stop (int) + shutterspeed (time)
What ratio or percentage of space in front of your primary plane of focus is in acceptably sharp focus in your image
1/3 in front and 2/3 behind
photographic term for interior lighting and what color is it
- tungsten
- yellow/orange
If both complementary colors were in an image together, which would pop?
red, yellow, and orange; because warm colors always pop
In Learning to See Creatively, Brian Peterson quotes Henry David Thoreau as saying, “The question is not what you look at, but what you _________________.” As a photographer what does this mean to you?
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