Monday, May 12, 2014

Weekly Vocab

Exchangeable image file format is a standard that specifies the formats for imagessound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other systems handling image and sound files recorded by digital cameras

TIFF is a computer file format for storing raster graphics images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and both amateur and professional photographers in general.

geotagged photograph is a photograph which is associated with a geographical location by geotagging. Usually this is done by assigning at least a latitude and longitude to the image, and optionally altitude, compass bearing and other fields may also be included.

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Crime


Weekly Vocab

prime lens is either a photographic lens whose focal length is fixed, as opposed to a zoom lens, or it is the primary lens in a combination lens system.

wide-angle lens refers to a lens whose focal length is substantially smaller than the focal length of a normal lens for a given film plane

 Calypso 35mm film camera was conceived by the marine explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910—1997), designed by Jean de Woutersand manufactured by Atoms in France.

Through-the-lens (TTLmetering is a photographic term describing a feature of cameras capable of measuring light levels in a scene through their taking lenses, as opposed to a separate metering window

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