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What Photography is?

Photography:

Photography is a portrait an interview series where we talked to as many different people as we could across the photography community. And I sent this question of What Photography is? It's really a portrait project is what it is.

But to gather the best and brightest minds in the photo business at least the ones that were available to come. Kind of create a little community you know with at the center obviously.

But at least the organizing factor and ask them this question, get their responses organized that together and then with that we have a general sense of what photography is at this time and place.

I think a lot of artist working with photography think about this question. I think it's true also of curators and anybody that's working in the field. Has asked themselves what photography is?

At some point the wonder what we're doing. You know? So, it's one of these mediums that's kind of constantly evolving. Part of this project too was figuring out where it is today and how that relates to the history of photography.

We had the idea of a portrait series for us. We wanted to create some kind of visual content. We do a lot of things about photography. So, we wanted to do something that is photography.

We thought well, who would we make portraits of? Who would people want to see portraits of? As our viewers on Explora for. And we thought of course people in the photography community.

The question is important to me personally but also in a broader perspective. Really the project is less about what I think photography is, and more about finding out with other people think it is.

Seeing the breath of photographic practice. When people are with you and they see what's going on, they open up a little bit.

And when that happened, usually the end of a portrait session we would say: Hey, anyone else you would recommend for this project? And almost everybody offered 3 or 4 names and we’d reached out to them and if they were available and we felt the work fit and we respected and liked their work, we asked them to be involved.

If they agreed, they were in. It was important for me as the photographer to come up with some sort of uniformity in the aesthetic with what we're doing. And because we're shooting over the course of several months of course, 1, the lighting is changing, the people are changing.

We wanted to make sure that each portrait sort of reflected the person that we were shooting. So, they're going to be different portraits. We had told hold something constant in this project.

And what we ended up doing in order to keep some semblance of uniformity, is we shot every image in the same location. We used the Penumbra Foundations Highlight Studios. Which is a natural light studio in Midtown (Manhattan).

North-facing light-beautiful light. Gorgeous space to shoot in. We got a backdrop from Oliphant Studios. So, hand-painted backdrop that we shot, and we made sure to include that in every single shot.

And we also decided to go with the monochrome palette. So, we took away the color to sort of simplify things and also to keep the images sort of aesthetically unified. There's the practical sense that we wanted a definition of photography.

And of course, there is no one definition. And people are reluctant to offer something like that, I think. Because first of all, who knows?

I mean there's so many different definitions. You don’t want to get nail down to anyone. We were a little bit worried going in that we might end up getting the same answer over and over again. That was our fear going into this project.

Photography rule of thirds:

Photography rule of thirds. All right so photography rule of thirds probably the most golden out of all the golden rules in photography and cinematography but before photography and cinematography were even created painters way way back of the day in the Renaissance time.

When there was new kind of paintings and styles coming out painters of that time wanted to create artwork that showcased more of the background so there was a conversation happening so that the subject.

When they used to paint the subject would be centered the most important part of the image would be in the center kind of like you know when you're playing darts right you're aiming for that center point whatever the bullseye at the center of the frame.

And they found that they could showcase more of the background and create more of this conversation by taking the character or subject out of the center and moving it along one of these intersecting lines in the frame.

There are nine equal blocks that you can divide each frame up into with four intersecting points placing your subject on one of these four intersecting point creates this much more dynamic communication or conversation really that can happen with the person viewing the artwork or photo or video or painting.

And then the subject is in that painting because when you have the subject in the center of the frame as you can see there's equal distance in all directions so this tends to make the viewers eye very static not moving no interaction when you take this point of interest here and you move it off to one of these intersecting lines.

What happens is it creates more of a dynamic images it allows the eye to come into the frame look at the viewer look at the background and have a communication have a conversation there make this energetic connection.

Between viewer and art or photo or video all these things so this is one of those original rules or really like concepts not really rule it's a concept or a theory behind framing that allows from much more dynamic images to be created so you can see with our lovely bottle Karissa.

That when she's framed on one of these intersecting lines on the Third's there's a much more dynamic communication going on here the eye comes into the frame analyzes it sees the background goes back into the subject.

When was photography invented?

Photography was concocted in 1826 or 1827 By Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

History of Photography:

History of Photography. This is a brief glance at how photography has created photography is depended on the revelation that on the off chance that you jab an opening in the mass of a darkroom.

You make camera obscura light going through the gap is anticipated topsy turvy and holds shading and viewpoint the primary authentic notices of camera obscura in pinhole photography are by old thinkers drab Aristotle and Al Hassan in 1490.

Leonardo da Vinci records nitty gritty portrayals of camera obscura and utilizes it to follow stuff by the 1700s camera obscura gadgets are normal and there's proof to recommend specialists like Rembrandt Vermeer and Caravaggio use them gee drawing in 1724.

Johann heinrich shelton finds that substances blend in with silver nitrate respond to light sadly the images fade soon after until one day in 1826 the world's first photograph is taken by josef nietzsche for Niepce and france using a procedure called heliography voila this exposure takes several days.

And you can see the sunlights of both sides of the building after his death meet Jay's partner Louie de Guerre continues his working makes the main down to earth photographic procedure in 1833 the daguerreotype in 1839.

The French government purchases and announces the daguerreotype allowed to the world this is when cool stuff begins happening like the principal photograph of a human in spite of the fact that this presentation endured around seven minutes a man was getting his shoes cleaned and was standing flawlessly still along these lines leaving a mark on the world.

This was additionally the primary photograph with Sol and obviously the world's first selfie is taken by a person named Robert Cornelius and people going to human it wouldn't take long for naked photography to commence too in 1840.

Henry Fox Talbot discloses the calotype a procedure dependent on negatives that takes into account paper duplicates to be made anyway Talbot attempt to charge permit expenses for the calotype so it didn't generally get on contrasted with the Gare whose name is currently one of 72 names engraved on the Eiffel Tower Talbot spent his life fighting lawsuits and eventually gave up on photography.

You could say Talbot became a big negative in the end it's also important to mention the commitment of Sir John Herschel who distributed numerous fundamental research papers in begat the term photography from the Greek expressions of light in drawing by the 1850s.

Portable photograph studios were extremely popular in light of the fact that photographs must be created nearby introduction times were around three minutes in length so individuals use neck supports and medications to keep still it's additionally why no one grinned in early photographs.

What could be the world's first Photoshop happens in 1861 the head of Abraham Lincoln is set on an increasingly honorable body the world's first shading photo is likewise delivered it's of a bow in 1871.

Richard Leach Maddox who had a remarkable mustache imagines the gelatin dry plate this implies littler cameras and no tripods important extraordinary fruitful chap currently here's a cool story.

Brother so as to settle the discussion of whether each of the four of a pony's hooves ever at the same time leave the ground Englishman Edward my extension sets up twelve cameras with wire triggers.

In the way of a dashing pony the world's first photograph arrangement demonstrates that they do in 1885 George Eastman founder of Eastman Kodak invents roll film the first handheld camera the Kodak goes on sale in 1888.

Why Kodak because Eastman just like the letter K the Kodak came preloaded with a hundred exposures that needed to be sent back to the factory for processing and reloading when the roll was finished.

Long exposure photography:

long exposure photography essentially refers to leaving the shutter speed the shutter speed leaving the shutter open for an extended period of time so it allows more light into the sensor.

And there's more motion blur so it can create some really cool effects if you're still a little bit unsure about what I'm actually talking about then here's some examples I think even doing it on the escalator could be really cool.

Because you have it's still right here then everything that's still around it which will be the steps will be in focus and still but everything else will be blurred.

I'll just keep it short and sweet the slower the shutter speed the more light is gonna be let in and the more motion blur the faster the shutter speed the less lights will be allowed in and the less movement obscure everything being equal in case you're accomplishing something like evening time photography.

The entirety of the time picture takers will have a moderate shade speed so they're able to bring in more of the light without sacrificing the quality by upping the ISO your only problem with having a slow shutter speed.

It's not really a problem but well yeah it is a problem if you try doing it handheld there's gonna be camera shake because you think about it the slower the shutter speed the more the movement obscure.

There is so as long as that shade is open it's catching each and every piece of light that is coming into the edge and if that bit of light changes which it will if you are moving around so it's gonna look all blurry and old motion blurry or let's be realistic it's not like you're going to have perfectly still hands.

When you're taking your photos so what you need he's a tripod next thing is to just find a location a lot of the time people take long exposure pros of cars going by so the lights on the front and the lights on the rear that's why in the law of those photos you'll see a beam of red lights and a beam of yellow lights because the yellow lights are the front lights and the red lights that realize.

I want to find a place where it's really even and there's yellow lights on one side and red lights of one this is good right here because got the cars on this side and then the tram on this side so we'll just wait for the cars to go by and then a trams go by it's all about timing.

That's the thing probably gonna have to take a fair few photos before I get a good one because I currently have it set at the shutter is set to 3 entire seconds so not 1/3 entire seconds and an opening of f9.

So it's quite shut off or a transient brisk another cool thing about long presentation photography is water has swells but since of the movement obscure in light of the fact that it's still it really smooths out those waves.

And makes it resemble it's totally splendidly level so we'll do that right here on the arrow so many more things that could have touched on with long exposure photography.

Leading lines photography:

Leading lines photography. I just have some pictures on the ground and start so the first piece for leading lines is Victor background so if I look at this photo by unrepairable found one more famous apparently.

The story is walking on the valley to keep the man man turned on and credited with one gets a shot but I love about the shot did of course it's wrong we had when two men face also ranking female it is in the original image.

There's a slight little white barrel run Memphis and I think that would she'd by dodging the photos it gets back from Davis film obviously and wonder way to integrate the feature photography is when we're walking down alleyways walk about from crease open certain.

Boulevard retreats look for the leading lines and try to get subjects head looking straight at me and also it's very critical for me to previously to crouch down tsimko just to make sure those the high position is dead center in the meadows middle of this valley.

One tip to shoot vertical so odd into the photo that I shot by recently and Vietnam and when I made this image I saw just we design on the bottom to bring one straight up command and for me the cherry on top it it's more detail like is fika commands like this one so the way.

I like to shoot these kind of photos is if I switch from via magnetic lock why not vertical tune to work better another practical tip shooting leading lines and start is wait there is really called efficient technique where we look for in the cheesy background.

And just wait for the right subject or fish tend to the brain so this is a photo that I shot in Korea 2009 I believe and the way I shot this image is I saw this nice leaving lines in the background waited for somebody to enter the frame.

And I just got lucky that displayed in umbrella and all white came in the second automatic photo she saw me slightly lowered umbrella to cover her eyes and I think that's why I actually made the shot so you can see all the bleeding lines which are pointing to that direction or vice versa the lines of the point or chase delicate flip or arrows so one day I'll shoot him street photography.

After work this is about 2011 Santa Monica in Los Angeles and I do distinction sculpture nearby in my workplace she the leading one in the bottom of the frame and it's waiting for somebody to enter the frame not sure how long awaited.

Lady's tenure to me and I just got lucky that demanding the bicycle came and time to perfectly and I might have taken two or three four days and it settles it tip number five drops down is the footage. So this is the some information about leading lines photography. Expectation you delighted in it.

Self portrait photograph:

Self portrait for me personally there are so many times when I'm in the mood to shoot or create but there's no one around to do it with so today I'm going to go over some of my favorite tips and techniques.

That I use when taking my own self portraits so let's get into it starting off some things you'll need to capture the perfect self portrait some kind of camera like a point-and-shoot DSLR or even an iPhone it could totally work quite.

Literally anything that has a self timer on it but today I'll be using my Nikon at z7 and most likely switching my lenses throughout shooting next thing you'll need is a tripod or some kind of stand where your camera is absolutely safe from any Falls.

I'm not telling you to avoid the stacked pillow technique but I also am don't do that but we've all been there moving on we want to pick a solid location and also start visualizing a concept in our heads if we want this self-portrait to be a next level we want to prepare by treating this like we're shooting an actual model or a friend.

For me I'm gonna utilize parts of my room for this shoot because we have some nice natural light coming in through these windows I'd also rather not be outside where people can see me taking pictures of myself.

But that's just me and because we will be in the photo ourselves so we want to also think about what we're going to wear sounds pretty simple but having a nice outfit and frame can do a lot to complement your final image.

So just think about the colors and the patterns involved in where you're gonna wear and just make sure it doesn't take away too much or distract from your final photo so now that we have the gear we're using a location and an outfit in mind let's get into more of the technical stuff for the first image.

That I have in mind to capture it actually doesn't call for a tripod so for those of you who are about to stack your camera on some pillows you're in luck for this specific shot we'll be shooting a mirror selfie but a dope mirror selfie so this semi full-length mirror.

That I just recently purchased is enough for latching to the top of a door but today we're gonna hook it up to the top of my blinds probably not the safest thing to do but the natural light coming in through my windows it was just too perfect next you're going to want to think about your background and foreground objects.

That are appearing in your photo from mine I'll be bringing in this light-up headboard into frame also be hanging up some additional string lights to add some more interest and warm into my overall shop I suggest taking advantage of things you have around your space and just kind of thinking outside the box of what will look good now.

I'll be attaching my 35 millimeter F 1 point 4 onto my z7 with this glass being perfect for portraits it'll give us a perfect end result with the low aperture kind of blurring out visual points that we're shooting directly through a mirror and this just adds some overall mystery to our final photo.

And because we don't need a self-timer for this shot we'll just be making sure our manual settings are in good shape.

I believe my shutter was somewhere around 1 in 250th or 200 just because we weren't moving it too much maintaining our ISO wasn't even a problem.

Because of how much additional light we added into the frame and here's the final photo for the next self-portrait.

I have in mind I'll be accessing the self timer function within my camera so it'll be super helpful if you have that within yours as well and because I'm visioning this image to be a bit more colorful than our previous shot.

Why photography is important?

Doesn't matter what a we love in the end what matters is the fact that we want to capture it be it in a memory or in any other medium snapshots everybody likes them and everybody takes them.

And took them nowadays it's easy for everyone to do so do we love them yes are we happy with them of course we are but are they photography nowhere near there are not easy photography.

if we describe the tiger free as a craft and just like hitting the sensor on a light hitting the firm's surface and this is where a responsibility of the photographer kicks in capturing a person like the person is means a lot.

More than just his shutter button it means also a lot more than knowing your camera settings you see people will cease whether we like it or not this is what people do I remember on my cousin she died at the age of nine after an accident on Linea Negra not only image.

I could find was that one when she had her first day at school when she was six years old or my other cousin died at the age of 19 in a car accident and I just have one image and the rest is just covered in my memories.

I stumble upon this image versus a photograph or two for my mother sitting in it Michelle technically they were very good did they really show how my mom was noble already showed is a woman on a chair looking into the camera waiting for instructions from the photographer.

This is it result is that I don't have a decent picture of my mother a lot of people don't have decent images of the loved ones and this is what I talking about when I say it's a responsibility of the photographer.

The important thing to know is that if you want to capture that rehearsal just like that person is you just need more than New York or your settings all of that you to connect and you need to know how loud connect and you might need to have that mental bond and you need to bond with your subject.

And then you get this split second and this can be the music the whole environment the most important thing what you need to know is that your subject needs to be comfortable with your surrounding with the whole ambience.

And then then you can take that image of your subjects that shows the person who's seeing right in front of you and this work it doesn't matter who or what you love the most important thing is that we want to capture it like it is.

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