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Street photography
Street photography is a captivating genre of photography that captures the essence of everyday life in public spaces. It is an art form that allows photographers to document the world as it unfolds, capturing candid moments and the raw emotions of people in their natural environments. With its roots dating back to the early 20th century, street photography has evolved and flourished, becoming a powerful medium for storytelling and self-expression.
By PLUMMER TYLER MARQUIS3 years ago in Photography
The Magic 🪄 of photography 📸
Photography has the ability to capture moments in time, evoke emotions, and tell stories that words cannot. It is a powerful medium that has been used to document history, showcase art, and preserve memories. From the earliest daguerreotypes to modern digital cameras, photography has evolved into an art form that has the power to move, inspire, and transform the way we see the world.
By Babatunde Hafeez Olakunle 3 years ago in Photography
Sitting Poses for Photos: Different Sitting Styles for Men & Women
Sitting poses are an essential aspect of photography that can make or break a photo’s composition. Choosing the right poses for pictures can help you create stunning portraits that capture the mood and personality of your subject. Well! In this article, we’ve compiled a list of the best sitting poses for photography. Whether you’re taking photos of individuals, couples, or groups, these poses will help you create captivating photos that stand out.
By CPI3 years ago in Photography
SELFIE WAVES
Here on July 1st of 2015 a long-standing ban was lifted visitors were finally allowed to take selfies at the White House and this is the first legal selfie ever taken on a White House Tour but a year before the ban was lifted in February of 2014 Vsauce met with the president and secretly took an illegal selfie while on the toilet In The West Wing thanks Obama, why is he admitting to this crime now? well a lie can't be covered for too long,so it's time for the truth. who took the first selfie really? It is the oldest known self-portrait a depiction someone made of themself that includes Head and Shoulders it was sculpted more than three thousand years ago by Pharaoh akhenaten's first Chief Royal sculptor. A man named Beck next to himself Beck sculpted his wife to Heart making this also a contender for oldest known Asy but the roots of the selfie goes back further than this. We have been making things that resemble ourselves in whole or in part knowingly or not for as long as there's been cause and effect. Just looking into a pool of water creates some kind of selfie, A Primitive ephemeral one you can't preserve or send to anyone but it is undoubtedly an image of the self made by one self even the earliest life forms on Earth were capable to some degree of self-discrimination they could distinguish themselves from the environment around them which they have inside in some chemical form or a crude pre-conscious sense of themselves I call things like that first wave selfie. First wave selfies are unintentional automatic or accidental resemblances something makes of itself in whole or in part like prehistoric human Footprints or the mental images animals have of their own bodies the first big leap in selfie history The second wave began with the first intentional depictions of oneself second wave selfies include everything from Chauvet caves 32 000 year old hand stencil prints to the paintings of Jan Von Ike and Judith leister but in the 19th century self-depiction changed in another Major Way a technology emerged that allowed likenesses of the self to be made faster and with less skill that seemed more accurate less mediated and more indexical than ever before. Photography ushered in the third waveselfie in the fall of 1839 outside his family's lamp and chandelier store in Philadelphia thirty-year-old Robert Cornelius stood completely still for about 15 minutes in front of a camera he built using a modified opera glass and a sheet of silver plated copper the result was a significant image it could be found on his gravestone in Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery. The Smithsonian calls it the first selfie but they also don't in that same fall of 1839, A man named Henry Fitz Jr took a photograph of himself in Baltimore Smithsonian Magazine and pretty much everyone else has called cornelius's Selfie the first but in their archives the Smithsonian calls Fitz Juniors the first the reason for this confusion is that honestly we don't know which of these came first all we can be sure of is that neither of them is the first equally by a Frenchman wrote of taking a photo of himself in 1837 two years before these but it's been lost and other even earlier examples may have been lost as well because these are photographs people took of themselves it's largely uncontroversial to call them selfies but you know they're not like selfie selfies if you've seen my video is cereal soup you know what I just did there contrastive Focus reduplication that's when you repeat a word in order to focus on prototypical examples in contrast to edge but the point is no one called these selfies when they were taken they were photographic self-portraits the word selfie wouldn't even exist for another 160 years after they were taken so at some point between this and this our relationship to self-depiction changed and our vocabulary had to expand to discuss it. What rough Beast emerged to make the coining of selfie necessary well let's keep going around 1846 Czech photographer MV lobethal took the earliest known selfie with a mirror this of course would become a classic selfie technique mirrors provided an easy early way to capture the self with a camera but in my opinion this mirror selfie from around 1900 is the most arresting I think you die at least three times once when your body stops living again usually sometime later when your name is spoken for the last time but now thanks to photography more and more of us are able to save ourselves from the third the last time and image of you is seen. The identity of this woman is unknown that makes it the oldest known selfie taken by a person whose name we have forgotten this is the oldest known example of the classic outstretched arm selfie technique it was taken by Joseph Byron in 1909 images like these were a significant step toward the eventual fourth wave selfie the presence of a camera or arms or poles in the shot evidence of how it was made are Hallmarks of the modern day selfie stereotype for example a 2013 ad campaign for the cape times reimagined famous historical photographs as selfies and in every single one an arm connecting the subject to the camera was used five years after Byron's armed selfie Anastasia nikolivino Romanova the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and great-granddaughter to Britain's queen Victoria and Prince Albert took a photo of herself she was 13 years old at the time, so many have claimed it to be the first selfie ever taken by a teenager but that's not true in 1852 61 years earlier British chemist William Henry Perkin took a photo of himself when he was just 14. However even though Anastasia wasn't the first teenager to take a selfie in another way she was unlike Perkins whose shot feels like a self-portrait she took pictures that feel much more like we today would call selfies the photos she took were personal, she sent them to friends to share in her mood and daily life she posed with fake novelty teeth in 1915 or 16. four years after taking the famous selfie her camera was confiscated and not long after Bolshevik revolutionaries executed her and her entire family together in a basement conclusive evidence of her death in 1918 wasn't uncovered until 2007. although her work was cut short she pioneered the use of Photography as a social behaviour as a way to communicate not just commemorate she has been called the Kardashian of her day but despite her influence she was more of a trendsetter for hairstyles than photography she didn't usher in a worldwide shift in Behavior were young people everywhere started taking selfies camera manufacturers didn't rush to make self-portraiture easier and articles weren't written about how great or how scary it was that young people were taking pictures of themselves though the modern day selfie still wasn't born it continued to gestate and kick within the womb. One such kick was the use of sticks and pulls to activate a camera's shutter in 1925 newlyweds Arnold and Helen Hogg used a long Pole to take this picture in 1934 Helmer Larson used a fallen tree branch to snap selfie with his wife Naime in Sweden on Reddit Chooch 37 shared his grandfather using a selfie stick in the late 1940s An early depiction of what is now the recognizable human selfie, If you Google self-portrait you get a lot of self-portraits there's only one image that shows someone making a self-portrait Norman Rockwell's famous triple self-portrait but if you Google selfie a lot of what you get aren't selfies they're pictures of people taking selfies four the selfie as we know it today the pose of taking one is just as if not more Salient than the actual result blogs and articles containing outrage over people taking selfies in inappropriate places or when they should be behaving differently rarely complain about the actual images they dislike the performance In 2015 Joanne paternapatania published a book of pictures of people taking selfies from which she had removed the environment giving us what feel like selfie poses preserved in specimen jars the idea that those taking photos can be a nuisance didn't begin with selfies far from it there's a long tradition of photographers especially tourists raising eyebrows for being annoying centering themselves over the location and being predictably heard like for example the Pisa pushers found in Italy the modern day selfie that was to come however makes a person look like a tourist everywhere they go not because everything suddenly became a landmark but because people have always loved looking at themselves and as cameras became smaller and easier to handle it was inevitable that people would start snapping more self-portraits. Vivian Dorothy Meyer took really cool mirror selfies in the 1950s and 60s but she kept them to herself her selfies were unknown and unpublished during her lifetime a couple of years before her death she failed to make payments on a storage unit she rented and her Works were auctioned off six months after her death in 2009 a collector who had acquired them uploaded her images to Flickr and they went viral inspiring exhibitions a documentary, a road in Paris was even named after her the popularisation of instant cameras in the 60s and 70s made taking selfies physically and mentally easier.. you didn't need to know how to develop the film yourself or feel self-conscious turning in selfies to be developed but instant cameras with mirrors on the front didn't come around until decades later, selfies still hadn't reached a Tipping Point. In 1983 Hiroshi wada submitted a patent for a telescopic extender for supporting a compact camera an early selfie stick and two years,Lester wisbrod started what was to become a personal tradition using his new auto focusing compact camera to snap selfies with famous people Whiz broad was the pioneer of the celebrity selfie still though no one was using the word selfie, selfies hadn't become a thing yet but then something happened in Japan in 1995 19 year old toshikawa haromi known as hero mix was nominated for the new Cosmos of Photography award by world renowned photographer Nobi Yoshi araki she submitted a portfolio of snapshots she'd taken of her daily life and she won the grand prize, there was already a unique culture of photo diary and photo booth use among young people in Japan but hero mix's sudden Fame amongst teenagers and the educated Elite made the practice a thing suddenly young people all over Japan wanted to be like her. The New York Times called it Hero Mix syndrome increased demand for cameras that made self-portraiture and proto-instagramming easier LED camera manufacturers to speed up the release of features that served immediate frequent photography Hero mix took a lot of photos tens of thousands and her work generated polarised reactions some critics adored her While others found it all baffled now by the time selfies were called selfies the same debate was started again but it was about the behaviour Hero mix had brought into focus more than a decade before you know, it's hard to say who took the first selfie but in my opinion Hero mix took the first selfie selfie her work hastened and christened the arrival of the fourth wave selfie. The selfie as we know it today now if it hadn't been her it would have been someone else people love looking at themselves and it was becoming easier and easier to do so but Hero mix popularised taking pictures of yourself as a social sharing activity more akin to speaking than remembering less a memory than a message nowhere is this more clear than in the story of the first camera phone picture on June 11 1997 while his wife was in labor Philippe Khan Jerry rigged together a makeshift system involving his star attack flip phone a Casio QV and a Toshiba laptop when his daughter was born he took a photo with the camera and used the laptop and phone connection to immediately email the image to more than 2 000 people social media is strongly associated with the fourth wave selfie but as we've seen it wasn't its origin instead social media was simply a mouth that showed up later and demanded to be fed them online we have no bodies we can't just walk in and be seen we have to upload images of our bodies for them to be there. Selfies are an easy solution because they don't require other people's help but on top of that there's a sense in which a photo of yourself taken by someone else is that person's point of view it's their story but a selfie well a selfie's point of view doesn't belong to another person when I look at a selfie of you I'm not a third Observer looking at you through someone else's eyes it's just me looking at you selfies allow us to be online first hand not second hand in the same way that brown bears who migrated to the cold lands of the north evolved pale guard hairs and became polar bears as humans migrated into the cold lands of the screen they evolved Selfies by 2006 everyone knew that something was happening the New York Times published an article that year about how young people were suddenly taking a lot of photos of themselves, was it weird? what did it mean? not once in the article is the word selfie used but it could have been because sometime between 1995 and 2006 the word selfie was born selfie with a Y had been a word since the 1600s it meant self-centered or selfish but selfie with an ie is new. The earliest recorded usage of it is from a September 13 2002 post on Dr Carl's self-serve science Forum Australian Nathan hope uploaded an image he took of how busted up his lip had gotten and he wrote sorry about the focus it was a selfie hope has been hailed as the inventor of the word selfie but says himself that he probably heard it somewhere else first which is likely the word selfie is a hypocrism a pet name an affectionate familiar cuter version of an existing word. Australians are famous for doing this barbecue Barbie mosquito mozzie Australian Aussie self-portrait selfie they don't only use I.E they love o s and Z too Australian English has given us probs Rando totes saws preggers and yes even doggo Myspace was an early incubator of thriving selfie colonies but in 2004 when Facebook launched as a serious social media platform for people at Elite universities, there was a brief feeling that selfies were falling out of favour however when the iPhone 4 debuted with a front-facing camera in 2010, the selfie was declared officially back. In 2013, usage of the word selfie had jumped 17 000 percent in the last year and Oxford dictionaries declared it the word of the year everyone knew what a selfie was we started calling things that existed before the word selfies as well but that is an anachronym a word used out of place in time anachronyms can be words that have lingered around too long like when we say we're dialing a number on a smartphone even though actual turning dials are no longer involved or when we call this tinfoil although it's actually the cheaper and more durable aluminum foil that superseded, it anachronyms can also be words from today like selfie that barge back into the past like calling these medieval Church singers the first boy band nailing down the definition of a selfie in the modern sense is tricky of course does a selfie need to be a photograph if not why? if so, do I need to be holding the camera? does the use of a timer or a drone I'm not even touching mean that it's not a selfie or just a different kind of selfie? are humans a selfie since God made us in His image? because of questions like this, I prefer what I've been saying in this article just allow a selfie to mean anything that something has made that resembles itself or part of itself that covers a lot of stuff but can be broken down into four waves . A. First wave selfies are unintentional B. The second wave began with the first deliberate depictions of oneself C. The third with photography's promise of recognizable self-depictions that were significantly more accessible D. The fourth wave is when selfies became a thing a cultural phenomenon motivated by a desire not just to have images but to be images throughout the 20th century especially we found ourselves increasingly surrounded by images news and travels and products and stories the entire world outside our head could be seen like never before not in person but through images in the midst of this, Image world was the human animal an organism that got to look at images but wasn't one which was too bad because to be an image was to be something, well selfies gave us that power they put it in our own hands photography allows more of us than ever before to delay the third death but the fourth wave selfie flattens the boundaries of time and space now we can be anywhere whenever does my face need to be depicted for it to be a selfie. Well in October of 2013 Kim Kardashian posted an image on Instagram within a month selfie had been added to the Urban Dictionary a belfie is a selfie of your butt but selfie selfie belfie guides and histories and even a Selfie stick soon followed and this all raises a serious question about Society if a selfie of your butt is called a belfie shouldn't a selfie of the face be called filthy?
By Nora Dan-Harold3 years ago in Photography
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Title: The Art of Photography: Capturing Life's Moments Through the Lens Introduction (150 words): Photography is an expressive art form that has the power to freeze moments in time and evoke emotions. It is a medium through which we can document our world, share stories, and convey messages. Whether it's a stunning landscape, a candid portrait, or a powerful journalistic shot, photography enables us to capture the beauty, complexity, and diversity of our surroundings. In this article, we will delve into the multifaceted realm of photography, exploring its history, techniques, and impact on society.
By PRINCE TORI ELIZABETH3 years ago in Photography
Capturing the Beauty: A Colorful Sunset's Breathtaking Display
Capturing the beauty of a colorful sunset can be an awe-inspiring experience, and it’s no wonder why so many people try to capture this breathtaking display on their smartphones. With the advancement of technology, smartphones now offer high-quality cameras that can easily capture the stunning hues of a rainbow sky. If you’re wondering how to capture the beauty of a colorful sunset on your iPhone, here are some tips to help you get started.
By Lorraine Young 3 years ago in Photography
How to know if your photography is rising to that pro level?
Ooh! You have a phone with a camera, a subject before you, and the will to capture it. You take that stance, click the capture button, and view it back. You feel good about it. Sometimes confused. But one thing you surely feel is that you have captured something. Your pictures somehow give you hope of reaching an exhibition. But, are they really good? As a photographer, it can be tough to gauge when you're starting to level up your skills. Sure, your friends and family might say your photos are great – “These are some beauties you’ve clicked now.” But, are you really making strides toward becoming a professional? Trust me, this confusion is not only bewildering but obstructive too. So, how to come out of this bog? How to know if you’ve really captured something meaningful or just another trivial picture?
By Shivam 3 years ago in Photography
It takes far more than still hands and minds for Still-life photography
It is by far one of the easiest things in the world. Or at least it seems so to the naïve eyes. After all, what does it have? A bunch of inanimate objects captured from a bunch of angles. Right? Well, not quite. In reality, still-life photography is an art form that requires far more than just steady hands and a calm mind. One must have a creative vision guided by technical skills and attention to detail. Ignore any of these and you’ll soon find ghostly stillness and silence in your photography career. Let’s capture a few whys and hows of it.
By Shivam 3 years ago in Photography
The great ordeal of turning photography passion into a profession
It feels so unnatural. You grow up watching great photographers. You get aspired by the beauties they bring to the world. And one day, one of your pictures gets published in global magazines. But as pleasing as it seems, becoming a professional in the field of photography is not an easy air.
By Shivam 3 years ago in Photography
Confessions of A Very Amateur Photographer
Introduction I was posting on the Vocal Social Society Community Adventure Thread and I was shocked that I knew nobody, barring myself, who had posted in that community. Not one member of my Creationati or any of my other friends has posted in Photography.
By Mike Singleton đź’ś Mikeydred 3 years ago in Photography
Photography 8 Tips for Beginners
Starting out in photography is a wonderful time filled with creativity and discovery. Unfortunately, for many new photographers, their introduction to photography is a time of wrecked nerves, confusing advice from friends, and frustration as you learn a new camera and try to capture on film or digital media what you saw with your eyes.
By Samir Ali3 years ago in Photography
Difference between DSLR camera VS Point and Shoot Camera
Cameras come in many shapes and sizes, and each is used for a variety of needs. There are, however, two main types of cameras available today for the general consumer: the DSLR (or SLR) and the point and shoot.
By Samir Ali3 years ago in Photography
