Photography is an art, and practice of creating images that can be used to preserve memories of special occasions or moments, tell a story, send a message or can be used in a professional manner like for business, science, keeping records and manufacturing, storing information it is also a form of entertainment. these images are created by a camera that has a light sensitive material, a lens is used to focus on the object or image and its light reflected is on the light sensitive material inside the camera this results in an electronic charge at the pixel by the electronic image sensor which is electronically stored in the form of a digital file that can be processed and viewed on a paper base known as print or can be viewed digitally, photography has gained popularity these days with the development of digital cameras that are easy to use and maintenance free there are many companies like Nikon, Sony, Kodak, Canon, Fuji etc. that have a wide collection of digital cameras in the market this is giving rise to many amateur photographers who opt photography as a hobby and later develop it a s a profession, there are many courses that can be done to learn photography and it can also be learned under the assistance of a professional photographer.
There are many great photographers in the world some of the famous photographers are Nick UT he is an award winning photographer who won the Pulitzer award for ending the police action in Vietnam by his real image capturing.
Steve McCurry the famous Nat-geo photographer for in incredible work. He is most famous for his picture of an Afghani refuge girl Shabbat Gula with striking eyes.
Helmut Newton the famous fashion photographer for his incredible portfolios in the fashion industry.
Edward Muybridge the famous pioneer photographer who did the pioneering using still photos
Dorothea Lange was a famous documentary photographer his most famous work is the migrant mother.
Alfred Eisenstaedt was a famous German photographer who had mastered the art as a photojournalist.
Ansell Adams for his landscape photography, Derothea Lange for his documentary photography, Yousuf Karsh for his portraits, Henry Cartier for his street photography, James Natchway the famous war photographer.
Popular Photography is also known as pop photo it is the world’s largest monthly photography magazine. its publisher is Jeffery Roberts and editor-in-chief is John Owens, It has a single copy sale of 400,000 with over 2,000,000 audiences.
The term photography was first used in 1839 by Sir John Herschel in his lecture, The term was taken from the Greek word photos and graphe which means drawing with light. Chinese philosopher Mo Di and Greek scientist Aristotle and Euclid first described a pin hole camera in the 4th and 5th century, the first permanent photograph was developed in the year 1822 by French inventor Nicephore Niepce after him his assistant Daguerre continued his work and developed the concept he first took a person’s photograph in 1838 using the concept of a pinhole camera. William Fox Talbot in 1935 was the first to use the concept of negative printing but the photo was like a blue print image. Prokudin Gorskii in the year 1915 developed the first monochrome (black and white) these type of developing ruled for many years some of the classic pictures available are in monochrome only. It was in mid-19 century that colour photos were developed by James Clark Maxwell.
Photography is an art there are many thing to keep in mind before taking a photo some of the tips of photography are.
- Identify the need and purpose of the picture plan the picture by keeping the purpose in mind.
- Select the object or an image that has to be captured, go to its eye level this makes a magnetic effect.
- Background selection is also important choose a plain background to enhance the image.
- Move closer to the object through zoom in option, so that you can capture the minute details and give the picture a live effect and makes the image more attractive.
- Centre your focus on the object adjust the object in the middle of the frame before clicking the picture.
- While clicking at night or during winters make arrangements for other source of lights and slow down the shutter speed.
- Select an appropriate flash range images appear dark from a distance use the flash to enhance the lighting.
- Edit the final picture before printing remove the additional objects in the background arrange the frames change the backgrounds add some more colours before printing the final image.
