Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Weekly Vocabulary Assigned: 5/27/14 Due: 5/30/14

Zone system-  is a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development, formulated by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer.

Bromoil Process- was an early photographic process that was very popular with the Pictorialists during the first half of the twentieth century.


Photo-Secession- was an early-20th-century movement that promoted photography as a fine art in general and photographic pictorialism in particular.

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Project number 1 / 15 pictures put into GIF or collage


Weekly Vocab Assigned: 5/20/14 Due: 5/23/14

Speed Graphic camera- is an excellent American made hand-crafted wood camera

Contax camera-  was a camera brand noted for its technical innovation and wide range of Zeiss lenses, known for their high optical quality.

Polariod Spectra- introduced the Spectra system of cameras in 1986. It was an all-new line of cameras, and had a corresponding new film.

Weekly Vocabulary Assigned: 5/12/14 Due: 5/16/14

EXIF-Exchangeable image file format is a standard that specifies the formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras , 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- a digital photo or other object on a Web site or in a document refers to the attachment of geographical identification data.

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

GIF File Social Issue


15 Photos- Social Issue
















Weekly Vocabulary Assigned: 5/6/14 Due: 5/9/14

Prime Lens (FFL)-  lens is one that has just one focal length only (in contrast to a zoom lens that covers a wider range of lengths). Prime lenses come in a wide range of focal lengths from wide angles through to the very longest of tele-photo lenses used by many sports photographers and paparazzi.

Wide- Angle Lens- can be a powerful tool for exaggerating depth and relative size in a photo.

Calypso underwater camera-  is a high-performance underwater camera suited for various underwater applications up to 90m deep.

Through-the-lens (TTL) metering 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.