1. PHOTOGRAPHY
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2. OVERVIEW
• Early Photography
• Photo Vocabulary
• Best Practices

3. EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY
• Louis Daguerre
• 1830s: invents daguerreotype
process along with partner
Nicéphore Niépce
• Declines a French patent and
accepts an annual stipend

4. EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY
• Samuel Morse
• 1839: meets Daguerre in France
• Is there pursuing a French patent
for his telegraph
• Exchange of discoveries
• Interest in visual arts

6. EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY
• Mathew Brady
• 1840s: learns daguerreotypy
from Morse
• Becomes the most famous
American maker of visual images
• Extensively documents the
American Civil War
• A major originator of popular
culture and celebrity

7. EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY
• William Henry Fox Talbot
• 1840s: develops the paper-based
process we now call
photography
• Photography takes awhile to
catch on in America
• Eventually becomes the
dominant medium for visual
images

8. EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY
• Daguerreotype
• Taken on glass and/or metal
• A single, positive image

9. EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY
• Daguerreotype
• Taken on glass and/or metal
• A single, positive image
• Highly detailed
• Hard to share

10. EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY
• Daguerreotype
• Stereograph
• Hugely popular
• Two almost identical images

11. EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY
• Daguerreotype
• Stereograph
• Hugely popular
• Two almost identical images
• When seen through a viewer,
popped out in 3D

12. EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY
• Daguerreotype
• Stereograph
• Cartes-de-visite
• Also very popular

13. EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY
• Daguerreotype
• Stereograph
• Cartes-de-visite
• Also very popular
• Precursor to modern-day trading
cards

14. EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY
• Hercules Florence
• 1830s: developed a
photographic process in Brazil
before Daguerre and Talbot
• Coined the term fotographie

15. EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY
• George Eastman

16. EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY
• George Eastman
• 1884: patented the first camera
using rolled film
• 1888: Invented the first Kodak
camera
• This paved the way for the
motion picture industry
• It also made it possible for
cameras to not only be used by
professionals but also by
consumers

17. PHOTO VOCABULARY
Orientation: Landscape or Portrait

18. PHOTO VOCABULARY
Horizon Line

19. PHOTO VOCABULARY
The Rule of Thirds

20. PHOTO VOCABULARY
Framing

21. PHOTO VOCABULARY
Cropping

22. PHOTO VOCABULARY
Depth of Field

23. PHOTO VOCABULARY
Exposure: Underexposed or Overexposed

24. PHOTO VOCABULARY
Exposure: Underexposed or Overexposed

25. BEST PRACTICES
Check the Entire Frame

26. BEST PRACTICES
Consider Lighting

27. BEST PRACTICES
Consider Lighting

28. BEST PRACTICES
Consider Lighting

29. BEST PRACTICES
• Check the Entire Frame
• Consider Lighting
• Photographing People
• Obtain Permission!

30. BEST PRACTICES
• Check the Entire Frame
• Consider Lighting
• Photographing People
• Obtain Permission!
• Show Personality

31. BEST PRACTICES
• Check the Entire Frame
• Consider Lighting
• Photographing People
• Obtain Permission!
• Show Personality
• Insinuate Motion

32. BEST PRACTICES
• Check the Entire Frame
• Consider Lighting
• Photographing People
• Obtain Permission!
• Show Personality
• Insinuate Motion
• Capture Spontaneity

33. BEST PRACTICES
• Check the Entire Frame
• Consider Lighting
• Photographing People
• Obtain Permission!
• Show Personality
• Insinuate Motion
• Capture Spontaneity
• Obtain Permission!!!

34. CONCLUSION
• The history of photography involves
technology but also culture
• Creating images in an educational
or professional context requires
different standards than you are
used to in your personal lives
• The ability to create photographic
images in many ways creates a
fundamentally different reality