Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Weekly Vocab

35mm camera still film cameras were developed that took advantage of the 35 mm format and allowed a large number of exposures for each length of film loaded into the camera.

The Bang Bang Club was a label primarily associated with four photographers active within the townships of South Africa between 1990 and 1994, during the transition from the apartheid system to government based on universal suffrage

Zoom lens is a mechanical assembly of lens elements for which the focal length (and thus angle of view) can be varied, as opposed to a fixed focal length

National Portrait Gallery is an historic art museum located at 8th and F Streets NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Founded in 1962 and opened to the public in 1968, it is part of the Smithsonian Institution. Its collections focus on images of famous Americans. The museum is housed in the historic Old Patent Office Building.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Social Issue

I plan on choosing crime as my social issue.

Weekly Vocab

Freelance is a person who is self-employed and is not committed to a particular employer long-term.

VII- is a photo agency representing 30 photojournalists, known for its focus on conflict photography.

Realism- in the arts may be generally defined as the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic and supernatural elements

Monday, April 7, 2014

Architecture

Weekly Vocab

Bauhaus, was an art school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught


Telephoto lens is a specific type of a long-focus lens in which the physical length of the lens is shorter than the focal length

Photomicrograph, is a photograph or digital image taken through a microscope or similar device to show a magnified image of an item

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Clone Stamp


Weekly Vocab

Vest Pocket Camera- Pocket camera that was widely used during WW1.

Meniscus Lens- Lens that has two spherical lens

Rapid Rectilinear- is a lens that is symmetrical about its aperture stop with four elements in two groups