PHOTOGRAPHY

You and your Camera

drawing with light

YOU, THE PHOTOGRAPHER

Good photographs come from developing an eye for a picture not from using banks of powerful studio lights, whirring motor-drives or two-foot long telephoto lenses. Success requires no more than the ability to make the essential creative leap from what you see to what will work as a photographic image
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YOU, THE PHOTOGRAPHER

Experienced photographers become adept at identifying interesting images largely because they spend a great deal of looking through the viewfinders of their cameras. Anyone can learn to see pictures in the same way. Look through the viewfinder frequently, even when you do not intend to take a picture.

YOU AND YOUR CAMERA

Photography combines different areas of skill:
* Ability to see creatively. * Identifying interesting and appealing visual aspects of the world around you. * Ability to translate these photographic ideas into pictures.

YOU AND YOUR CAMERA

A camera and film can become efficient servants of your creative impulse if you learn how to use them. You will handle a camera more confidently if you have a clear understanding of the basic relationship between camera, light and film.

THE CAMERA YOU SEE

Although cameras can be classified into groups according to film size or operating characteristics, all camera are basically similar and include six essential parts.

THE CAMERA YOU SEE

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A - Light-tight enclosure (camera body) B - Lens C - Iris diaphragm D - Shutter E - Viewfinder F - Film-support channel

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 35mm SLR No Parallax Era

THE CAMERA YOU SEE

THE CAMERA YOU SEE

35mm SLR

THE CAMERA YOU SEE

Digital Camera

THE CAMERA YOU SEE

Rangefinder Camera Parallax
Parallax

THE CAMERA YOU SEE

Compact 35mm Camera Parallax

THE CAMERA YOU SEE

Pocket Camera

THE CAMERA YOU SEE

Disc Camera

THE CAMERA YOU SEE

Instant-picture Cameras

THE CAMERA YOU SEE

Rollfilm Camera

ANATOMY OF A CAMERA
Light, Lens and Film
The word photography means drawing with light, a phrase that conveys both the creative and the chemical nature of the photographic process. A camera is simply a device for bringing together in a sharp image the light reflected from scene and allowing it briefly to touch a film material so sensitive that the light leaves a trace, which can be developed into a finished picture.

ANATOMY OF A CAMERA
Light
To form an image, light has only to pass through a pinhole into a dark area and fall on a screen

ANATOMY OF A CAMERA
Lens
The lens brings the image into sharp focus on the film. Moving the lens forward or back changes the lens-to-film distance, focusing near or far subjects.

ANATOMY OF A CAMERA
Aperture and Iris Diaphragm
The aperture regulates the light entering the camera, usually by means of an iris diaphragm. This is a continuously variable ring of overlapping metal blades.

ANATOMY OF A CAMERA
Aperture
Wide Medium Small

ANATOMY OF A CAMERA
Shutter
The shutter controls the length of time light falls onto the film. A common type exposes the film through an opening between two blinds that travel across the film.

The End

Hj.Iliyas Hj.Hashim KUiTTHO 2004