Photography

Photography

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CLASS LECTURE: (February 14, 2017)

Photography

• "Light Picture"
• MEDIUM = Light
• Photography was invented in 1826
• Light can transmit an image
• First noticed by seeing a reflection.
• "Light can reflect an image!"
• If you put a hole in a cardboard box, on the opposite side you will see an image, but fuzzy and upside down.
• Accuracy!

Camera Obscura

• "Box" "Dark"
• A dark area
• Originally used to project an image on a canvas to paint more realistically. 
• A camera obscure COULD NOT make photographs.
• Basically just a box with a hole in it.

Heliography

• "Sun Writing"
• Invented by Joseph Niépce in 1826.
• First photographic image!
• 8 hours of exposure time.
• Pewter plate was sensitized using chemicals (asphaltum). 
• Solvents were used to was away asphaltum that wasn't hardened by the light.
• Created an immediate positive image
• Couldn't be copied.

Daguerreotype

• Invented by a Frenchman named Jacques Louis Daguerre.
• Worked with Niépce.
• Improved and changed the way photographs were taken.
• Photographs had to be kept inside of a special box.
• Oxygen made it deteriorate.
• Mathew Brady
• His goal was to take a photo of every important person.
• Famous for taking pictures of the Civil War.

Kodak

• Eastman Kodak Company
• "You press the button, we do the rest"
• George Eastman

Photomechanical Image Recording

• Portraiture
• Images of people like Abert Einstein, Helen Keller, and Abraham Lincoln were captured, so we know what they look like years later.
•  Landscape
• Ansel Adams
• He had an unbelievable drive to capture images that he really wanted to capture.

Documentation

• Dorthea Lange

Purposes of Photography

• Fine Art
• Photojournalism

• Television
  
• Newspaper
• News Correspondent
• Documents the things that are happening. "Stuff that's going on".
• On the scene
• Shows an example of someone documenting the Vietnam era, and the photo of a couple celebrating the end of WWII
• Editorial Photography

•  Editorial Photography
• To convey a certain image about something or to sell a product.
• Advertising
• Fashion

Cinematography

• Kinemat = Movement
• Graphy = Picture

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CLASS LECTURE: (February 16, 2017)

We can watch classic films for extra credit! Just go to afi.com

We can watch anything OTHER than fantasy or science fiction films, unless you clear it with Bro. Griffin.

We can't watch anything that we have already seen.
We get 5 pts per movie you watch, and we have a limit of 5 movies we can get extra credit for.

Cinematography

• Kinemat = Movement
• Graphy = Picture
• We are adding motion to photography.
• Studies of Motion



Zoopraxiscope

• Eadweard Muybridge
• "Animal Locomotion" 1887
• Inventor of the "Zoopraxiscope"
• Origins of animation
• Principle
• Persistence of Vision
• Retention of a visual image in the mind.
• Zoopraxiscope
• Like a little toy



Celluloid Negatives

• A bunch of pictures on a wheel, and spun around.
• Celluloid Negatives
• Invented by Hannibal Goodwin, 1888
• Refined and marketed by George Eastman, 1889
• Thomas Edison was involved,
• Goodwin's next step was to create long strips of film where a series of still pictures could be captured in rapid succession.

Three Necessary Elements

1. Flexible Connected Images
• William Talbot - Celluloid
2. Artificial Light Source
• Thomas Edison - Light bulb
3. Projector
• Lumiere Brothers

Film Shorts

• First film in laboratory = "Fredd Ott's S Sneeze" 1894
• Thomas Edison, W.K.L. Dickson
• Forst Commercial film = "The Arrival of the Train" 1895
• The Lumiere Brothers.

Silent Film Era

• 1890's - 1927
• Charlie Chaplin, Auteur
• "Auteur" = Author
• Person who exerts great creative control.

Technical Advances

• Sound - 1927
• Color - 1930

Terminology

• Full shot - head to toe
• Medium shot - waist up
• Close up - Head & Shoulders
• Extreme Close Up - Part of face
• Long shot - distance
• Flashback - cut to earlier times
• Cross cut - Two or more scenes together
• Animation 
• Special Effects
• etc. ...

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