Photography

What Is Photography?

Photographs are amazing.  Through photographs, history is preserved - children's first steps, disappearing landscape, rare, endangered animals. 

Photographs evoke the essence of places we have not been, we perhaps will not return to, and should never forget.  

With a photograph, someone can be brought from his or her spot on the globe to someone else's.  They can stand in the midst of a pine forest or walk in hushed silence through the musky light of a swamp. Photographs have introduced families and told the story of lives intertwined forever.  

Photographs "become" through making choices and great photographs become through making right choices.  Right choices are the direct result of the knowledge of the photographer.  Great photographs are NOT, however, strictly the result of owning fancy equipment.  

Life breathes through pictures just as sure as they are seen.

Photography: Structurally Defined

Photography is the art, science, and practice of creating pictures by recording radiation on a radiation-sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or electronic image sensors. Photography uses foremost radiation in the UV, visible and near-IR spectrum. For common purposes the term light is used instead of radiation. 

Light reflected or emitted from objects form a real image on a light sensitive area (film or plate) or a FPA pixel array sensor by means of a pin hole or lens in a device known as a camera during a timed exposure. The result on film or plate is a latent image, subsequently developed into a visual image (negative or diapositive). 

An image on paper base is known as a print. The result on the FPA pixel array sensor is an electrical charge at each pixel which is electronically processed and stored in a computer (raster)-image file for subsequent display or processing.

What is Photography to you?

Responses

Photography is something really magical to me - capturing a still, perfect moment in time, that would otherwise have passed unnoticed, and preserving it forever. I love taking photographs of people; every face tells a story, and I think there is something profoundly beautiful in old, wise faces. By, Pazit

A still, recorded moment in time. By, Southern

A picture taken with a camera. By, Bastion

Photography translates from Greek as "drawing with light" or "painting with light". I think this defines it pretty well! You are creating a work of art, and your media is light that your camera captures..... By, Lem 

It literally means "light and writing." By, Sakura

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