16 April 2011

Photography (Definition)

Easier - Photography is the art or job of taking or making photographs. It is the creation of images by exposing film or a computer chip to light inside a camera.

Harder - The word photography comes from Greek words meaning to write or draw with light. Photography is a process of making pictures by the action of light. Light is reflected from an object to form an image on a material sensitive to light.

Most pictures are made using a device called a camera. A camera works somewhat like the human eye, capturing reflected light from objects and through a camera lens and focusing those light rays into an image. Traditionally cameras recorded the image onto film. More recently through the development of computer chips, many cameras capture their images on a computer chip. The computer chip then allows the conversion of the image to digital data. Regardless of whether the photography is film or digital-based, the images can be made permanent and seen by an unlimited number of people.

Photography Quotations

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. (Ansel Adams)

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. (Ansel Adams)

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. (Ansel Adams)

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators. (Ansel Adams)

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing. (Layne Staley)

Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost. (Donald Rumsfeld)

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing. (Robert Mapplethorpe)

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence. (Robert Mapplethorpe)

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography. (Robert Mapplethorpe)

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing. (Syd Barrett)

First Known Use of PHOTOGRAPHY 1839.

Rhymes with PHOTOGRAPHY

autography, cacography, cartography, chorography, chronography, cosmography, cryptography, demography, discography, ethnography, filmography, geography, holography, lithography, lymphography, mammography, mythography, nomography, orthography, phonography, pictography, planography, pornography, reprography, sonography, stenography, thermography, tomography, topography, typography, venography, xerography, xylography