Photography is about capturing beauty in ordinary things through perspective and composition. It is a way of looking at the world and finding the essence of a subject. When taking portraits, photographers should frame their subjects to focus attention, consider backgrounds, experiment with different angles and shots, make subjects comfortable, and highlight each subject's uniqueness.
Photography is about capturing beauty in ordinary things through perspective and composition. It is a way of looking at the world and finding the essence of a subject. When taking portraits, photographers should frame their subjects to focus attention, consider backgrounds, experiment with different angles and shots, make subjects comfortable, and highlight each subject's uniqueness.
Photography can serve different purposes and genres. The purposes of photography include creative expression, documentation, communication, and storytelling. Common genres of photography are landscape, portrait, street photography, events, and photojournalism, each with their own stylistic techniques and goals.
The document provides a history of photography, outlining some of the major developments from the earliest techniques like heliography and daguerreotype in the 1800s, to important camera innovations such as the camera obscura, pinhole camera and use of lenses. It then discusses the invention of photographic film, the rise of handheld cameras for mass markets, and the transition to digital photography in the late 20th century as camera technology became integrated into mobile phones.
The document describes the evolution of early cameras from the camera obscura to the pinhole camera. It discusses how the camera obscura was the predecessor to the modern camera and provided a means for artists to draw accurate images projected through a pinhole. The document then outlines the basic materials needed to make a simple pinhole camera using a box, foil or lid, needle, and tape and provides examples of the process.