Capture: Reflected light from an object passes into a camera and then onto a light sensitive surface.
Process: The captured image is turned into something we can see.
Store: The image is put into something we can keep such as a printed photograph. I.E. an online photo album.
Analogue photography uses the 8mm or 35mm film.
USB & Removable Card: Both are possible to remove the data or footage from the device ready for possible storage on a computer.
WiFi & Bluetooth: Both are possible to remove the data or footage from the device ready for possible storage on a computer without the need for any wires.
RAW Files: files that have not been processed by the camera. RAW files are more likely to be a bigger size when storing them on the computer's drive. As well as this, not all editing programmes can edit or copy these pictures.
JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group. Most pictures are stored as this because it saves space. However by saving space, it strips away the best quality of the image, as well as compressing it.
The Internet is most likely to have more JPEG quality pictures because of loading time because of lack of quality.
Bitmapped Graphics Format - .bmp: used initially by Microsoft Windows graphics subsystem.
PICT - .pct: introduced on the Apple Macintosh computers as its standard digital image format.
Tagged Image File Format - .tif: Best to store high colour digital images. Best for printed pictures.
Photoshop Document - .psd: edit pictures in adobe photoshop
Graphics Interchange Format - .gif: world wide web use.
Monday, 8 February 2010
Monday, 1 February 2010
Photo Ethics - Ways To Change A Picture
Changing a images perspective or meaning could be done through the context in which the photograph is given in will change the viewers opinions. By changing the the context, you are automatically changing the viewers perspective.
For example, the picture above may just show a crowd of people with a child holding a flag standing opposite a backdrop of a sea of soldiers. If someone was to show this picture during a lesson, the viewers point of view would be different to someone else's view if it was shown on a political campaign.
Another way of changing a picture would painting someone out or cropping the picture. If we look at the original picture to the one above, it would create a different meaning.
We can see that the original picture has G.W Bush standing on a podium creating a point for a political ad campaign. The effect of the picture has been changed due to the podium being there. It has more of an impact without G.W Bush in the picture.
Changing the frame of the image can completely change the way someone would see the exact same picture e.g cutting a particular person out for more of an impact on the viewer or cutting a particularly bad object out the image to make the subject seem less important as well as having less of an object.
For example, the picture above may just show a crowd of people with a child holding a flag standing opposite a backdrop of a sea of soldiers. If someone was to show this picture during a lesson, the viewers point of view would be different to someone else's view if it was shown on a political campaign.
Another way of changing a picture would painting someone out or cropping the picture. If we look at the original picture to the one above, it would create a different meaning.
We can see that the original picture has G.W Bush standing on a podium creating a point for a political ad campaign. The effect of the picture has been changed due to the podium being there. It has more of an impact without G.W Bush in the picture.
Changing the frame of the image can completely change the way someone would see the exact same picture e.g cutting a particular person out for more of an impact on the viewer or cutting a particularly bad object out the image to make the subject seem less important as well as having less of an object.
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Semiotics & Representation
Semiotics is the study of sign systems or images. Each person has a different view on what they see so the way one person sees an object/image, may be different to someone else's interpretation of the same object/image.
Semiotics allows media texts to be taken apart or de-constructed to show its meaning. Semiotics also shows that meaning develops at the simplest levels.
A signifier would be the word or object itself. A signified is the meaning to that particular person. This means that the signified would change from person to person. For example, 'rose' would be the signifier, where as a picture of the rose could be the signified.
A denotation is a single, basic or literal meaning from the original object, almost 'say what you see' points. A connotation is a suggested level of meaning from the object. The connotations often lead on from the denotations originally drafted from the object as well as having personal opinions involved. If someone sees an object negativity, this may come across or be reflected in the connotations.
Semiotics allows media texts to be taken apart or de-constructed to show its meaning. Semiotics also shows that meaning develops at the simplest levels.
A signifier would be the word or object itself. A signified is the meaning to that particular person. This means that the signified would change from person to person. For example, 'rose' would be the signifier, where as a picture of the rose could be the signified.
A denotation is a single, basic or literal meaning from the original object, almost 'say what you see' points. A connotation is a suggested level of meaning from the object. The connotations often lead on from the denotations originally drafted from the object as well as having personal opinions involved. If someone sees an object negativity, this may come across or be reflected in the connotations.
Monday, 4 January 2010
Photo Journalism
Photo journalism is the idea of being able to create a still frame of reality, as it happens. This has meant that more and more people have been able to view what was happening at the same time.
Henri Cartier-Bresson is supposedly known as the 'godfather' of photojournalism. By being able to create stills in reality without pausing to think. Henri would see something that appealed and waiting for an extra character, i.e a bicycle, to pass through the frame which in turn gave the picture a sense of movement and freedom.
Henri Cartier-Bresson first used a Leica camera, which allowed one eye to see through the camera and the other being able to see what else was going on, possibly outside of the frame. This meant that Henri was able to see something appealing, and wait for the frame shot to be improved. One of his most famous pictures was the Behind the Gare St. Lazare, Paris. The movement and freedom shown in pictures is expressed here more then others, the movement of the person moving forward; jumping over the puddle is shown by the position of his legs as well as his second foot 'hovering' above the puddle. Freedom is shown by the ripple marks in the puddle, spreading out until the waters edge.
The decisive moment is where the shutter button is pressed at exactly the right time, to get the best picture from the surroundings and objects. This is partly influenced by the few seconds before the moment.
Henri Cartier-Bresson is supposedly known as the 'godfather' of photojournalism. By being able to create stills in reality without pausing to think. Henri would see something that appealed and waiting for an extra character, i.e a bicycle, to pass through the frame which in turn gave the picture a sense of movement and freedom.
Henri Cartier-Bresson first used a Leica camera, which allowed one eye to see through the camera and the other being able to see what else was going on, possibly outside of the frame. This meant that Henri was able to see something appealing, and wait for the frame shot to be improved. One of his most famous pictures was the Behind the Gare St. Lazare, Paris. The movement and freedom shown in pictures is expressed here more then others, the movement of the person moving forward; jumping over the puddle is shown by the position of his legs as well as his second foot 'hovering' above the puddle. Freedom is shown by the ripple marks in the puddle, spreading out until the waters edge.
The decisive moment is where the shutter button is pressed at exactly the right time, to get the best picture from the surroundings and objects. This is partly influenced by the few seconds before the moment.
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