Key verse for the class

Col 3:17

And whatsoever ye do in word or

deed, do all in the name of the

Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God

and the Father by him.

Photography can be used anywhere!

• Family

• Sports

• School

• Business

• Travel

• Church

• Hobby

Photography Class Content

• History of Photography, the Camera and Film

• Learn the parts of a typical film and digital camera

and how to use them correctly

• Be able to use and understand photographic terms

• Learn to correctly compose a photograph

• Be able to use a computer to acquire, store, edit

and print a digital photograph

• Learn to use Adobe Photoshop to work on digital

images

• Learn to use your photographic skills to support

the other things you do while in school and life

after school

PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS

TEXTBOOK

Photography Class Pointers• Complete all assigned reading and study questions on time

• Take plenty of digital images

• Learn to correctly hold and use your camera

• Become very familiar with your camera manual

• Learn correct photo techniques by practice

• Learn to use the computer to store and edit your digital

photographs with Adobe Photoshop

• Read and study extra photographic articles and examples

• Include your last name and first initial as the first part of every file

name for projects turned in-Example: smithjfallcomposite-No

name no grade-put your name on your projects when required

• Ask for help early in the project not when it is almost due

• Backup your files on a regular basis-there will be a class hard

drive for you to use

Ps 101:3

I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I

hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall

not cleave to me.

The rule for subjects in Photography Class

will be: If the picture is in good taste, is clean

and does not bring dishonor to God, then

take it. There will be NO pictures that will

compromise your testimony for God or the

testimony of the school.

Some my favorite photographs

• Photographs are a way of remembering what you have seen and where you have been

• Photographs can be used to preserve memories

• Photographs can be used to tell a story

(“One photograph is worth a 1000 words”

Old Chinese Proverb)

To write with light.

Comes from the ancient

Greeks.

What does the word

photography mean?

Some important dates, events and people in the History of Photography

The camera was invented

many years before film was

available to record the image

that the camera captured

through the lens.

11th Century-invented in

Arabia and used to observe

solar eclipses.

Means “dark room”.

First published illustration of the

camera obscura, 1545

Portable camera obscura-1685.

1810

Camera

Obscura

Johann Heinrich Schulze

Discovered that

silver nitrate

darkens upon

exposure to light.

Thomas Wedgewood

Created the first

photogram.

Sir Humphry Davy worked with Thomas

Wedgewood in this area of photography.

Joseph Nicephore Niepce

Made the first

paper

negative.

Sir John Herschel

Discovered a

suitable

photographic fixing

agent for paper

images and gave the

new medium the

name photography.

First known photograph made on metal

by Joseph Nicephore Niepce.

“View from

My Window

at Gras” 1826

Louis Jacques Daguerre

Developed a

method of

making a direct

positive image on

a silver plate

called a

Daguerreotype

after the inventor.

Complete daguerrotype outfit.

First human form ever photographed, 1839.

All other moving objects did not show up in

the long exposure.

William Henry Fox Talbot

Developed a

paper negative

from which an

infinite number

of paper

positives could

be printed.

Above is a Talbot

photograph from 1844.

Below is a

Talbot

photogram

from 1838.

William Henry Fox Talbot’s Calotype of 1841.

Frederick Scott Archer

Developed a process that

resulted in a negative image

with the fine detail of the

daguerreotype and could be

reproduced over and over

again.

Thomas Sutton

Invented the first SLR

Camera that was also a

panoramic camera.

The halftone process

made it possible to put

photographs in books

and newspapers.

George Eastman

Introduced roll

film and the

simple Kodak box

camera. Made

photography

available to

everyone.

Early Kodak advertisements for their cameras.

Kodak ad

selling the

portability

of their

new

Brownie

cameras.

Auguste and Louis Lumiere

Introduce the first practical color photographic

process.

Edwin Land

Developed

Polaroid black

and white

photography-

camera and

film.

Invention of color

Polaroid photography.

1969George Smith and Willard Boyle invent

the charge-coupled device (CCD), the

image sensor that is the heart of all

digital cameras, at Bell Labs in Canada.

Kodak and Steve Sasson invent the

world’s first digital camera

1981

Sony released the Sony Mavica electronic still

camera, the first commercial electronic camera.

1987

Kodak invents the

world’s first

megapixel sensor.

Digital Cameras have come a long way!

Some important People in the history

of photography.

Photographed the American Civil War.

Matthew B.

Brady

portrait of

General

Robert E.

Lee.

Matthew B.

Brady portrait

of Abraham

Lincoln used on

the $5 bill.

Margaret Bourke-White

Documented the Great Depression and

World War II.

W. Eugene Smith

Documentary

photographer

of the Great

Depression and

World War II.

Developed the zone theory

in Black and White

photography and really

gave photography the status

of an art. Known for his

B&W landscape

photographs.

Photographer and mountain climber

There are many other men and

women that were involved in the

history of the development of

photography. This is only a partial

list. Notice that no single person is

credited with the invention and that

the people involved in the

development of photography came

from all around the world. It is

truly an international invention.

Review Questions

1. What does the word photography mean and what

language does it come from?

2. T or F The camera was invented after film was

invented.

3. What was the name of the first camera like device,

when was it invented and what was it used for?

4. In what year was the original No. 1 Kodak camera

perfected?

5. What was discovered by Johann Heinrich Schulze

and in what year did he make this discovery?

6. Who created the first photogram?

7. What happened in the year 1816 that was

important to photography and who invented it?

8. What did Sir John Herschel invent in photography?

9. In what year and by whom was the first known

photograph taken?

10. Who developed a method of making a direct

positive image on a silver plate and in what year?

11. Who invented the SLR and in what year?

12. Who invented roll film and in what year?

13. Who invented B&W Polaroid photography?

14. Who was Matthew Brady?

15. What was the name of the woman photographer

known for her documentation of the Great Depression

and WWII?

16. Who developed the zone theory of B&W

photography and took photography to the status of an

art?

17. T or F Photo grapy was basically invented in the

United States.

Now go to the next slide to see how you did on the

review.

1. What does the word photography mean and what

language does it come from? To write with light, Greeks

2. T or F The camera was invented after film was

invented. F The camera was invented long before film.

3. What was the name of the first camera like device,

when was it invented and what was it used for?

Camera Obscura, 11th Century, observe solar eclipses

4. In what year was the original No. 1 Kodak camera

perfected? 1888

5. What was discovered by Johann Heinrich Schulze and

in what year did he make this discovery? Discovered that

silver nitrate darkens upon exposure to light, 1727

Answers to the Review Questions

6. Who created the first photogram? Thomas Wedgewood

7. What happened in the year 1816 that was important to

photography and who invented it? First paper negative, Joseph

Nicephore Niepce

8. What did Sir John Herschel invent in photography?

Discovered a suitable photographic fixing agent

9. In what year and by whom was the first known photograph

taken? 1826 Joseph Nicephore Niepce

10. Who developed a method of making a direct positive image on a

silver plate and in what year? Daguerre, 1839

11. Who invented the SLR and in what year? Thomas Sutton, 1861

12. Who invented roll film and in what year? George Eastman, 1888

13. Who invented B&W Polaroid photography? Edwin Land

14. Who was Matthew Brady? Civil War Photographer

15. What was the name of the woman photographer

known for her documentation of the Great Depression

and WWII? Margaret Bourke-White

16. Who developed the zone theory of B&W

photography and took photography to the status of an

art? Ansel Adams

17. T or F Photography was basically invented in the

United States. F- Invented in many countries around the

world.

How did you do? Do you need to go back and review

this again?