Abstract: This chapter explores the role photographs play in everyday life and the various elements involved in photography. Some of photography's possibilities are discussed, with the understanding that photography is a combination of subjective thought, creative imagination, visual design, technical skills, and practical organizing ability. A broad look is taken at what making photographs is about, to put in to context and perspective thoughts. On the one hand there is the machinery and the techniques themselves. The variety of approaches to picture making is explored—aiming for results ranging from documenting an event, or communicating ideas to a particular audience, to work which is self-expressive, socially or politically or commercially informed for the family album or perhaps more ambiguous and open to interpretation. Photography is thought of as evidence, identification, a kind of diagram of a happening. The camera is a visual notebook. The opposite attribute of photography is where it is used to manipulate or interpret reality, so that pictures push some "angle," belief or attitude of your own. Photography is to do with light forming an image, normally by means of a lens. The image is then permanently recorded either by: chemical means: using film, liquid chemicals and darkroom processes, or digital means: using an electronic sensor, data storage and processing, and print-out via a computer. Composition is to do with showing things in the strongest, most effective way, whatever the subject.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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