Pictures By Cornell Capa

Cornell Capa was a working photojournalist in the United States. This pictures move me because they are some of American most prominent figures in history, Babe Ruth changed the game a baseball, while John F. Kennedy did many things to pull the United States up after World War II.

When you look at the babe Ruth picture its look, as it was a cloudy morning. He is pose seems so confident as he waits to bat. In the background you can see the crowd. Also I like how the player is not the center of the photo.

In the John F. Kennedy picture, you can see one of America’s greatest public speakers rallying up the crowds. The picture was taken from a lower angel. Making the person look taller and adding more power to the photograph. 

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Mikhael Subotzky

Pasvang, Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison

This photo taken by Mikhael Subotzky demonstrates how the use of a linearly constructed composition enhances an images visual appeal and impact. 

- SC

Thomas Hoepker

When looking at the Magnum website, it took me some time to find a photographer who had clear lines. I found Thomas Hoepker's work and many of his pieces still seemed irregular; however, I found these two-Portugal and Famine & Small Pox-from two of his photo essays. I feel that these two photos show a similar line pattern.

Portugal

Famine & Small Pox

I feel that both of these photos express three lines. Two vertical and one horizontal. I see one vertical one both sides of the photo and a horizontal line in the background about halfway up the page.

-Minnie

Harold Edgerton

I have found many amazing photos from Harold Edgerton and I really like his work. He has a very creative mind an interesting way of capturing the image he wants. I find the pictures he has created are very interesting and I hope you like them too.

- Ryan Ingala

Cibelli117- Photographer Rene Burri

I was unable to upload 2 of his photos for comparison, but if you look at his profile on magnumphotos.com you will notice that he uses very high contrast in his photos. He also uses several directions of line, almost in a haphazard way. I enjoyed Rene Burri's photography.

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Erich Hartmann

Erich Hartmann

USA. New York City. 1977. Laser light on wall above sleeping woman.

Erich Hartmann

The flask contains cystosine, one of the four major ingrediants in DNA and a key to all life. The cells are stored in the freezer for preservation, they are pure evaporated DNA which are being prepared in the Genex Corporation Lab.

 

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Two different pictures, yet the techniques of light are expressive: cold light as a symbol of separation and a warm light from inside as a symbol of life and its secrets. 

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Rolleiflex Twin Reflex Camera

The Rollei was created in 1929. It was a twin reflex camera. A twin reflex camera is a type of camera with two lenses of the same focal length. One is used as the lens that takes the picture and the other is used for the waist-level viewfinder system. The viewfinder uses a 45-degree mirror, a matte focusing screen and a pop-up hood. The viewfinder matches the image size on film.

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Eadweard Muybridge: First Action Photos

1878: First Action Photos
English photographer Eadweard Muybridge, using new emulsions that allow nearly instantaneous photography, begins taking photograph sequences that capture animals and humans in motion. His 1878 photo series of a galloping horse, created with 12 cameras each outfitted with a trip wire, helps settle a disagreement over whether at any time in a horse's gait all four hooves leave the ground. (They do.) It also causes a popular stir about the potential of cameras to study movement. Muybridge goes on to create hundreds of image sequences with humans and animals as subjects. These photo series are linked to the earliest beginnings of cinematography.

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Thomas Easterly: First Photo of Lightening

1847: First Photo of Lightning
In 1847, early photography pioneer Thomas Easterly makes a daguerreotype of a bolt of lightning—the first picture to capture the natural phenomenon. Primarily a portraitist, Easterly also makes pictures of landscapes, unusual for daguerreotypists.

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history of photography

The word photography comes from the Greek words phos (light)  and graphein (writing). The word was coined by Sir John Herschel in 1839. The first successful picture was produced in 1827 by Niépce, using material that hardened on exposure to light. This picture required an exposure of eight hours. Later Daguerre discovered a way of developing photographic plates, a process which greatly reduced the exposure time from 8 hours down to half an hour. Later he also discovered that an image could be made permanent by immersing it in salt. In 1851 a new era in photography was introduced by Frederick Scotto Archer, who introduce the collodion process. This process was much faster than conventional methods, reducing exposure times to 2 or 3 seconds. In 1884 George Eastman introduced flexible film. Four years later he created the box camera, and photography could now reach a much greater number of people.

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I am not sure if I posted this in the right spot!
Photography  was derived from the Greek words photos ("light") and graphein ("to draw"). It was first used by scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel in 1839.
Next, Alhazn, an authority of optics in the Middle Ages who lived around 1000A.D. invented the first pinhole camera and was able to explain why images were upside down.
In 1827, Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image with a pinhole camera.
In 1829, Louis Daguerre, the inventor of the first practical process of photography, formed a partnership with Joseph Nicephore Niepce to improve the process Niepce had developed.

In 1839, Daguerre invented a process that created a lasting image, one that would not change if exposed to light and named it the daguerrotype. In 1839 he also sold the rights to daguerrotype to the French Government and sold copies of the process in a book. By 1850 there were over 70 daguerrotype studios in New York City alone. 

Henry Fox Talbot, an English botanist and mathematician and a contemporary of Daguerre, invented the first negative from which multiple positive prints were made.

Several more advances were made, all the way up until the present day where we continue to use photography and a variety of different cameras, none of which would be possible if these few men discovered what they had. 

-Mary Capaldo

Dennis Stock Photography - LH

Both photographs were done by Dennis Stock. He was sent by the Magnum photo agency to follow hollywood celebrities and document their lives. Working in black and white, he took timeless images of Hollywood legends and jazz greats, while also documenting subcultures of the age, from motorcycle gangs to hippies. These 2 photos are both of the hollywood icon James Dean. Both capture Dean's coolness and attitude. The second image is one of his most famous. It was published by Life magazine. Dean here is walking in the rain in New York's Times Square, shoulders hunched over with a cigarette dangling from his lips. The magazine claimed the image defined the cool and celebrated Dean, before he died in a car wreck not too long after.  The images although different in composition and form demonstrate Stock's style and representation of the actor. 
 

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Tele Lens Info-Kendra

"By tele lenses we mean anything with a longer focal length than 50mm. They range from short teles of about 70mm to very long ones of more than 500mm, which are used for capturing action at major sporting events or wildlife shots.
With a telephoto lens you can crop in tightlyon the subject, to capture detail or isolate it from its surroundings which makes for compositions with lots of impact.

A further advantage of a telelens is that, since it has limited depth of field, it keeps the background out of focus. The longer the focal length of the lens and the wider the aperture, the less depth of field there is. Thus it follows that focusing with a tele is much more critical as there is not much room for error. A long telephoto at maximum aperture will only give a few inches depth of field for a subject five meters away.

As opposed to wide-angles which open up perspective, tele lenses compress space, making subjects in a scene appear closer together than they actually are.
When using a telephoto it is especially important to hold it steady, as the effect of camera-shake will be magnified as the lens gets longer. A useful guide would be to use a shutter speed equal to the focal length of the lens or one stop faster to be on the safe side." 


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Important Photo

Omaha Beach, Normandy coast. First wave of American troops landing on D-Day, 1944. Robert Capa's photos taken this day are the only existing images taken of the historically pivotal battle. 

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Rodeo, New York City, 1955

Robert Frank's (1955) Photo:

Trolley - New Orleans (from "the Americans")

I chose this picture because I found it very interesting the image he captured. This picture is from 1955 during the Civil Rights Movement. This photo is also from the South, which made it even more prevalent. If you look at the people on the bus, you see that there are white women and children in the front of the bus and black men in the back. This is the typical scenario that you read about in the history books, and he captured it perfectly on film. I love that he captured this moment in our history and there are no captions necessary to describe it.

Most Important Photo

In Remembrance of September 11th by Thomas E. Franklin

When I was asked in class what my most important photo, this was the first image that popped into my mind. Whenever I think about September 11th, this is the one photo that pops into my mind. You could ask me about any photo, and I most likely would not be able to describe it, but this picture is extremely vivid in my mind. I think it holds a lot of importance to the important date in American History of Sep. 11th. But it also links to the famous photo from World War II.

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Jean Gaumy's Photo (1986) of Veiled Women Practicing Shooting

Finding an interesting photo was a little more difficult than I thought it would be. I ended up finding this photo and I was consumed by it. It's very intriguing that Islamic Women are shooting guns. It goes against most popular beliefs that Muslim women don't stand up for themselves or have a "proper" place in their society. I thought it was a photo that I'd want to share with the class because I've never seen anything like it.

-Minnie

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Robert Frank-Sick of Goodbys

I liked this photo for a variety of reasons.  First, I love the dark and light contrast.  I also really like pictures with words in them, so this appealed to me.

 Pulitzer Prize Photograph by Kevin Carter.  Kevin Carter was a South African photojournalist who photographed many different scenes in Africa, including public slayings in South Africa.  In early 1993, he went to Sudan, where he took the photograph above.  It depicts a small child taking a break on its way to a feeding center.  Carter hoped the Vulture would spread its wings and it didn't so he chased it away.  He did not know what the fate of the child was.  He later won the Pulitzer Prize for this photo, but received a lot of criticism.  He eventually comitted suicide in 1994 by carbon monoxide poisining.  In his suicide note, he wrote that he was depressed, moneyless, and suffering from the number of disturbing pictures he took throughout his career.

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IMAGE SENSOR

An image sensor is a device that converts an optical image to an electric signal.

Technology / CCD vs CMOS

There are two technologies for an image sensor.

A charge-coupled device (CCD) is an analog device. When light strikes the chip it is held as a small electrical charge in each photo sensor. The charges are converted to voltage one pixel at a time as they are read from the chip. Additional circuitry in the camera converts the voltage into digital information.

A CMOS chip is a type of active pixel sensor (APS) made using the CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) technology. An active-pixel sensor is an image sensor consisting of an integrated circuit containing an array of pixel sensors, each pixel containing a photodetector and an active amplifier. APS is an alternative to CCDs.

Advantages of APS sensors (based on CMOS technology):

1. Consume less power than a CCD 2. APS sensors can combine the image sensor function and image processing functions within the same integrated circuit, so they are faster and less expensive. 3. Windowing readout. 4. Advanced white balance control.

Image sensor format / Aspect ratio

The image sensor format of a digital camera determines the angle of view of a particular lens when used with a particular camera. 35 mm film format is used as a reference to the digital cameras.

Image sensors in digital cameras tend to be smaller than the 24 mm x 36 mm image area of full-frame 35 mm cameras, and therefore lead to a narrower angle of view (aspect ratio 3:2).

The most common aspect ratios are 4:3 and 3:2. Nowadays most digital cameras use sensors around the size of APS-C film with a crop factor of 1.5-1.6. Crop factor is the ratio of a 35 mm frame's diagonal (43.3 mm) to the diagonal of the image sensor. Advanced Photo System type-C (APS-C) is an image sensor format approximately equivalent in size to the Advanced Photo System "classic" size negatives. These negatives were 16.7 × 25.1 mm and had an aspect ratio 3:2. For Nikon cameras: the alternative name for APS-C format is DX technology.

So a modern digital camera is more likely to have either full-frame format or APS-C format (DX Nikon).

Resolution / Pixel count

The number of pixels n for a given maximum resolution (w horizontal pixels by h vertical pixels) is the product n = w × h. Basically, higher resolution means more image detail, but resolution in pixels is not the only measure of image quality. Average resolution of the modern digital cameras varies from 10 to 20 megapixels, but can be up to 60. Effective pixels are the number of pixels that contribute to the actual image. This is always less than the total number of pixels (some are covered with a black due to establish a type black level and others are cropped from the edges). Sometimes there are engineering difficulties that also limit the number of effective pixels.

Conclusion

Now we can read the specifications, for example SONY DSLR-A580Y SMOC sensor APS-C size 23.5 x 15.5 mm, total pixels 16.7 megapixels, effective pixels 16.2 megapixels.

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Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange is a pioneer in photography and a great influencer of modern documentary photography. She is known for her empathy towards her subject matter and for getting out of the studio and taking photographs of real people and places. She is best known for her photographs of the depression and japanese internment.

Her 1936 photograph Migrant Mother, is her most well-known photograph.

Dorothea worked with the Farm Security Administration and is credited for making the struggles of immigrants and poverty-stricken populations to light.

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