CHAPTER 7:

PHOTOGRAPHY
Importance of Photography

It tells what we find beautiful,

fascinating, funny, delicious, meaningful
and inspiring.

Itallows us to showcase our style,

interests, relationships, and adventures,
to mark the passage of time.
  
Photography

• Is from two Greek words photos or phos,

for “light” and graphe, for “lines” or
“drawing”.

• Is described as the art in creating or drawing

durable images by recording light using
either photographic film or image sensor.

• It was first coined by Sir John Herschel in

a lecture before the Royal Society of
London.
The Digital Era of Photography

Digital Photography - is the art of manipulating and producing digital

pictures.
• It uses electronic photo detectors to capture the image focused by
lens.

Capture Image – is a stored as a computer file ready for digital

processing, viewing and publishing.
The Technique in Photography

• originated during early-to-mid 1600s.

• It started from the camera’s

predecessor known as the camera
obscura a Latin word which means
“dark room”. It was a box where in
when the light went through the
pinhole it formed an image on the
glass.
• The Famous Artist of The Renaissance who used
the Obscura were:

 Leonardo da Vinci  Michael Angelo

1820’s

 Joseph Niepce ­– a French

scientist improved the
lithography.
 Lithography – a method of printing
technique which is based initially onto glass
using a variety of materials : (mainly,
bitumen, a light reacting asphalt)
1990

 George Eastman – who

was the founder of the
Eeastman Kodak
Company.
 Kodak – the first camera open to the public.
 October 17, 1969
Willard Boyle and George Smith of the Bell Laboratories
invented the Charge-Coupled Device (DCC)
Charge-Coupled Device (DCC) - a type of sensor
that is used to capture an image by taking the light
and translating it into digital data.
 December 1975

• The first recorded attempt in the building of a

prototype digital camera was made by Steven
Sasson – an engineer at Eastman Kodak this
camera weighed 9 pounds and can record black
and white images to a cassette tape.

• To view the photos, the Kodak engineers had to

develop a unique screen.

• It was able to capture a 0.1 megapixel image

(10,000 pixels) and took 23 seconds to record a
copy to the tape.
 1988

• The first real digital camera that recorded images as a computerized

file was produced by the Fuji DS-IP. During this year, the first JPEG
and MPEG standards were fixed. These standards set in place a
universal format which allowed images (JPEG) and video (MPEG) to
stored in a compressed form which can be recorded to a 16 MB internal
memory card.
 Rule of Thirds Composition
• One of the main factors that differentiate a great
photograph from an ordinary one is composition,
or how are objects/subjects placed in the shot.

The Rule of Thirds- is a great compositional rule for

painting and photography.
Is also known as the guideline which applies to the
process of composing visual images like in painting,
designs, and photographs.
 
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 1990

Dycam Model – became the first commercially available

digital camera. It also sold the Logitech Fotoman. It used a
CCD (Charge Couple Device) image sensor, stored pictures
digitally, and connected directly to a computer for download.