Photo Reflection On Class

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Photo 1: Reflection on the semester Throughout this semester, I learned many different things in Photo 1. In this class, I was introduced to the basic elements of photography. From learning about the history of photography, to creating black and white prints in the dark room, I learned the basics of photography. In the first portion of the semester, I studied the history of photography. This class taught me about various different famous photographs and what they did.Such as Joseph Nipce who developed an emulsion out of bitumen of Jeda, which is form of asphalt. Louis Daguerre who discovered that if the silver plate was idonized exposed first to light and then mercury and fixed with salt, a permanent image would result. William Henry Fox-Talbot’s first exposure produced a negative image on paper with silver compounds. Edward Muybridge invented the zoopraxiscope which produced a series of images of a moving subject. Mathew Brady took pictures in battle fields and George Estman. This class also taught me who the “pictorialist”, “naturalist”, and “practical” photographers were. This was my least favorite part of the class beacaue I don’t enjoy history and I like being able to do different hands-on things. Before beginning to take pictures with our camera, we made photograms. A photogram is a picture produced with photographic materials, such as light-sensitive paper, but without a camera. The photogram included opaque, translucent and transparent image. After creating the photogram, we took pictures using a pinhole camera. A pinhole camera is a camera made out of a light-tight box with a pinhole aperture and no lens. We used different exposure times with these cameras to take the picture. Using my pinhole camera I took a self-portrait, portrait with a friend, a double exposure shot, a motion shot, a picture of the outside of my house, a close up of objects

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