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Snap shot or photograph
Have you ever seen someone in a football stadium take a point and shoot camera and try to take a picture of the game at night? Did the flash go off? Will that light actually hit the subject? Will the picture turn out? Is there a difference between a snap shot and a photograph? Students in this class should know the answers to these questions.
This section gives students who are new to photography insights into making good photographs. Yes, that is a clue to one question. A photograph is MADE not TAKEN. There is thought put into it. The photographer pays attention to the lighting and controls how it is captured by the camera and put onto the film. The photographer sees the picture in their mind BEFORE it is even taken.
Photography is the art of taking light reflected off of an object and capturing it by focusing it through a lens onto a piece of light sensitive material. The camera controls how much light is let in by two controls. One controls how much light gets into the lens and the other controls how long that light enters. Film is the recorder that stores the information about the object.
Photography is a young science with its first real access to the average person being less than 100 years ago when George Eastman invented roll film and the first box camera. We have come a long way since that time. This section of the web site will help fill the new photographer in on what it will take to make a good photograph. The skills, technical awareness and equipment needed to make a serious photograph are not the same as those needed to capture a "snapshot" with a simple point and shoot camera. Good luck as you explore the process.
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