Photo Manipulation.x

In todays lesson we looked and discussed the manipulation in photos. First we were given different photographs in small groups. We had to list the Denotations and Connotations for our picture. Once we had done this we had to decide on a story for the image. Our group were given a photo of buildings that had collapsed and covered in rubble so we decided that it was an image from the Kobe earthquake in Japan. We were then told that it was actually the recent earthquake in Italy. However, from doing this task we learnt how you can be confused by what a photo is about if its shown in certain ways.

We then looked at some images from the internet and how they have been changed and manipulated for certain reasons. In 1930 a man named Stalin began airbrushing his freinds who became enemies out of his pictures

History of Photo Journalism.x

Last lesson we watched a short insightful clip of The Genius of Photography. This showed how photography first started and how they first got the idea of creating images with camera obscura. The camera obscura was a small room with no windows in it. The would be a lens fitted in a wall and this projected images to the far wall opposite. The image appeared upside down and not very clear but it eventually would focus. However it was good for artists because they would copy and trace the image.

We then had to create a new blog for our project and create a timeline which showed when the first photograph was taken and who it was taken by:

.The invention of the daguerreotype: Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre invented the daguerreotype process in France. The invention was announced to the public on August 19, 1839
. The roll for the Kodak camera: George Eastman, 1888
.The first photographic camera: John Strognofe in 1685
.The first Leica camera: 1924: Leitz markets a derivative of Barnack's camera commercially as the "Leica", the first high quality 35mm camera.
.The first digital camera: 1975: Nicholas Nixon.

We then discussed the camera shutter and how it worked. The shutter controls the amount of time that the film is exposed to the light. The camera shutter has a range of different speed, from 4 seconds to 1/4000 of a second which on some cameras you can select a manual. We also spoke about the camera shake and how no matter how steady you may hold a camera there is still a camera shake. When you are holding a camera the speed of the shutter should'nt be lower than the focal length of the lens.

The Aperture is the opening and closing of the lens, it controls the amount of light that hits the film. The opening and closing is referred to as F numbers of F stop, the larger the F number the less light is exposed to the film and the smaller the F number the more light is exposed to the film.