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| User: | photobasics (1710546) Photography Basics
Learning about and improving on photography... |
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| Name: | photobasics | |
| About: | This is not a community to have your photographic works critiqued; there are plenty of those out there. This is a community to learn more about the art, science, and technique of photography. The word "photography" is of Greek origin and means "light writing". The essentials of photography have been known for many years, but it wasn't until the 1800s when they were combined into the photographic print process. Photography has a history that some find fascinating and some could care less about. Early photographic materials were radically different from current materials, but those efforts helped to define photography and eventually lead to modern techniques. Light is - and always has been - the basic element of all photography and is controlled to form an image. Many people will debate what is or is not photography, but any process that involves the capture of light to form an image is photograpy...it doesn't matter if you use film cameras, digital cameras, or other devices to do this (e.g. scanner-captured work). Photography is an art. Photography is a science. Photography is a creative process. But good photography requires some technical competenece...some knowledge of the subject. And that is the purpose of this community. As mentioned, we don't critique your work here. What we do is help you to better understand photographic ideas, techniques, and processes. All photography-related subjects are up for discussion...learning about aperature, focusing, color, the principles of light, flash photography, time-lapse photography, copyright and legal aspects, basic digital photograph manipulation (color correction, cropping, re-sizing, and the like), composition, common camera features, modeling, and how to improve on your technical or creative abilities...these are examples, but any subject is fair game. Your fellow photographers - newbie or veteran - are often your best resource. And this community aims to pool those resources to help us all improve.  The three guidelines...
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| Interests: | 83: 35mm, architectural photography, art, artistic nudes, b&w, black and white photography, camera shops, cameras, candid photography, color photography, composition, creativity, darkroom, developing, digital cameras, digital photography, fashion photography, female form, film, filters, flash cards, flashes, galleries, glamour photography, human body, human form, image making, image manipulation, imesho.com, landscape photography, large format, lenses, light, lighting, lomography, macro photography, male form, medium format, modeling, nature photography, negatives, perception versus truth, photo art, photograph manipulation, photographers, photography, photography advice, photography books, photography news, photography reviews, photography techniques, photojournalism, photos, photoshop, portfolio, portraits, portraiture, printing, prints, reflectors, scanners, self portraits, self-portraits, slave units, slides, snapshots, social documentary, still life, street photography, strobes, studio, taking pictures, techniques, the human body, time, time-lapse photography, travel, tripods, vintage cameras, visual art, webcams, zoological photography, zoom lenses | |
| Maintainers: | 1: texmorgan | |
| Moderators: | 1: texmorgan | |
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| Account type: | Basic Account | |
