The Camera

The Camera

1. The camera obscura effect was achieved by having a completely dark room with having a tiny little hole in the wall that subbed for a camera lens, by projecting and focusing the light onto the wall of the dark room.
2.  The invention in the 17th century that helped Isaac Newton come closer to creating the modern camera was perfecting and understanding the optics and processes of making a high quality glass lenses.
3.  Niepce created the last missing piece to the puzzle of creating a camera. And that was film.
4.  Modern digital cameras use the same process of having the light pass through the lens, into the camera, and exposes the film to create a photograph.
5.  Digital cameras use an electronic sensor to capture images.
6. The difference between the Auto Mode and the Program mode is that the Auto Mode will control the  flash and the exposure. Program Mode has automatic-assist, just point and shoot.
7.  The portrait mode is used for the attempt to blur out the background, and the camera will use the fastest lens there in the settings.
8.  Sports mode is used to freeze motion while the camera will use the highest shutter speed possible to capture the moment.
9. You would half press on the trigger button for a focus lock. During the process of focusing, the camera will show a blinking focus indicator. When it stops blinking, the camera is focused and ready to take pictures. While holding the camera in the half press, take time to explore the composition of the screen. Then take your shot!
10.  The first symbol means the flash is disabled and there is no flash. The mood of the photo is more dramatic when there is natural light.
11.  The second symbol means the camera will automatically put on the flash if the camera thinks there needs to be more light.
12. If there is too much light, the picture will end up looking washed out.
13.  If there is not enough light, the picture will be too dark.
14.  A stop is the relative change in the brightness of light.
15.  One lightbulb plus another will increase the light in the photo by one stop.
16.  If you add another stop, you would have to double the light to have four lightbulbs in the end.
17.  A longer shutter speed gives you more light into the film than a shorter shutter speed.
18. A shorter shutter speed will allow little light into the film forming a darker lit picture.
19. The aperture controls how much light gets into the film.
20.  You can increase the amount of light when adjusting the aperture by having the aperture on a setting where it is more open to bring in more light.

Great Black and White Photographers, Part 2

Garry Winogrand  

                        Garry Winogrand was born January 14, 1928 in New York, New York. Garry went to study painting at City College of New York and he also went to Columbia University to study painting and photography. He attended The New School for Social Research to go to a photojournalism class. Garry Winogrand's job was a photographer, writer, and also taught photography to students at the University of Texas. Some of the books written and published by Garry Winogrand are The Animals, Women are Beautiful, Public Relations, Stock Photographs, The Man in the Crowd, and The Game of Photography. Winogrand died March 19, 1984 in Tijuana, Mexico.

Photographs by Gary Winogrand: