Golden Hour Photography

Photography Words, Terms

Aesthetic-Refers to qualities that make something look how it does.

I'm drawn to the smoke and how it forms around the subject.

Camera Obscura-Latin for "dark chamber." A blacked-out room/chamber in which light from the outside is compressed through a pinhole. Discovered by Mo Ti in Chine, circa 400 BC/BCE.

Exposure- The length of time that light enters the camera and is recorded by the sensor/film.


Over Exposure- Too much light entering the camera.

Over

Under Exposure- Not enough light entering the camera.

Under

Focal Point- The center of interest/activity.

Exposure Triangle:

Aperture- The opening into the camera

Shutter- The mechanism that allows light to enter the camera for precise periods of time.

ISO- The sensitivity to light of the sensor/film.

DEPTH OF FIELD: The size of the opening into the camera, and the larger the apeture (opening), the smaller the sliver of focus you will have.

ISO:

The sensitivity of the camera

WHITE BALANCE (WB):
The temperature of the lighting being photographed.

FIRST PHOTO OF A PERSON - 1838

by Louis Daguerre

Boulevard du Temple, Paris

FIRST "SELFIE"
Robert Cornelius. 1839
Amateur chemist & photography enthusiast.
Philidelphia

Matthew Brady

Civil War photography

1860's

One of the events where the public saw casualties of war printed in newspapers.

EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE

1830-1904

English

Pioneer in photographing motion

created zoopraxiscope (1879)

Edward Curtis
1868-1952
photographer and ethnologist

DOROTHEA LANGE
1895-1965
Docomentary photographer and photojournalist
Began as a portraitist (in a studio)
During the Great Depression, she worked on the Farm Securities Administration to document the plight of the poor and forgotten
During WWII, documented the plight of Japanese-american citizens who were forced into internment camps. The photos were not seen during the war

Migrant Mother, 1936

White Angel Breadline, San Francisco, 1933

Pledge 

henry cartier-bresson
1908-2000
street photographer
decisive moment- the moment when visual and psychological elements

GORDON PARKS

1912-2006

Significant photographer of the Civil Rights movements

MANUEL ÁLVAREZ BRAVO

1902-2002

Pioneer of artistic photography in México

Most important figure in 20th-Century Latin America photography

Captured the history of Mexican society and culture

Street photography, folk art and rituals, human interactions

Art Theory & Aesthetics:

Contrast- difference between light and dark

Value- intensity of a color (or the BW)

Hue- color

Tint-addint white to a hue

shade- adding black to a hue

Scavenger Hunt

12 Midnight

Familiar

High Point

Love

Movement

Warning!

New/Old

The End

Oversized

Intimidating

Reflection

Closed

Energy

 

Music

Shadow (Boxing) 

Sharp

Soft

Too Much