Tuesday, February 25, 2014

20 Motion Photos




















Weekly Vocabulary Assigned: 2/25/14Due: 2/27/14

  1. soft focus is a lens flaw, in which the lens forms images that are blurred due to spherical aberration.
  2. Surrealism, movement in visual art and literature, flourishing in Europe between World Wars I and II.,  grew principally out of the earlier Dada movement.
  3. Cropping refers to the removal of the outer parts of an image to improve framing, accentuate subject matter or change aspect ratio.
  4. Anamorphic format refers to the cinematography technique of shooting a widescreen picture on standard 35 mm film or other visual recording media with a non-widescreen.

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Weekly Vocabulary Assigned: 2/19/14 Due: 2/21/14

GIF- graphics file format: a service mark for a format for graphics files, widely used on the World Wide Web.

Zoopraxiscope-  is an early device for displaying motion pictures. Created by photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge in 1879

Kinetoscope-  is an early motion picture exhibition device. The Kinetoscope was designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole.

Chronophotography-  is an antique photographic technique from the Victorian era  (beginning about 1867–68), which captures movement in several frames of print

Monday, February 10, 2014

Weekly Vocabulary Assigned: 2/10/14 Due: 2/12/14

Conceptual Photography- is one of those ways, that you can get your concept across the mind of the viewer using just the contents of a photograph.

Stock Photography-  are professional photographs of common places, landmarks, nature, events or people that are bought and sold

Microstock Photography-  is a type of stock photography where amateur and hobbyist photographers submit photos for online distribution at a much lower cost

istock Photography- is the supply of photograph licensed for specific uses. It is used to fulfill the needs of creative assignments instead of hiring a photographer, often for a lower cost. Today, stock images can be presented in searchable online databases.

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

10 Pictures. Story- walking the Golden Gate













weekly vocab Assigned: 2/4/14Due: 2/6/14

Pop Art-  was the art of popular culture. It was the visual art movement that characterised a sense of optimism during the post war consumer boom of the 1950's and 1960's.

Dadaism Dadaism or Dada is a post-World War I cultural movement in visual art as well as literature (mainly poetry), theatre and graphic design.

Photomontage- is the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining two or more photographs into an illusion of an unreal subject.

Constructivism- was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1919, which was a rejection of the idea of autonomous art