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• In photography, pictures (called photographs) are recorded by capturing light on film or an electronic sensor through a lens, allowing them to be manipulated and then reproduced later. The term derives from Greek and translates as "drawing with light."Capilano College: A Brief Introduction to Photography

• Fast Facts

  1. Types of photography: Black and white, Color, Digital
  2. Uses of photography: Commercial, Artistic, Journalism, Events, Wildlife, Conceptual, Pornographic, Fashion
  3. Materials: Camera, Film, Lighting, TripodPhoto.net: Photography
  4. Notable photographers: Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Anne Geddes, David LaChapelle, Annie Leibovitz, Paul Outerbridge, Paul Strand, Andy Warhol

• Tips

  • When photographing people or groups, use a plain backgroundKodak: Top 10 Tips for Great Pictures
  • Use a flash when taking photos outsideKodak: Top 10 Tips for Great Pictures
  • Try to utilize natural light when photographing indoorsKodak: Top 10 Tips for Great Pictures
  • Avoid harsh shadowsKodak: Top 10 Tips for Great Pictures
  • Use natural "leading lines" to focus the viewer's eyes on your subjectKodak: Top 10 Tips for Great Pictures

• Early History

  The ancestors to the modern camera, the camera obscura and its cousin, the pinhole camera, are sometimes credited to the Middle-Eastern scientist and philosopher Ibn al-Haytham, who lived around the year 1000 AD. Variations on these ideas, involving the use of light to project still images, were described in writing much earlier, including some references by the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle.

  In the 1820s, the practice of chemical photography was developed, along with the first permanent photographic image, a representation of a building taken by French inventor Nicephore Niepce. After the development of the daguerrotype in 1837, British inventor William Fox Talbot refined an earlier process he had developed into something called a "calotype," a similar process that would record images in less time, thus making it more practical for taking portraits of humans.

  Photographic "plates" were replaced by more modern film stock after an 1884 breakthrough by George Eastman.scphoto.com: History - What is Photography?

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