Photography

Photography is a large part of our everyday entertainment. Photography has become a hobby in many ways; it provides a means of recording and preserving peoples most memorable experiences but also offers a means of self-expression. The only problem is that many people have become familiar with casual cameras, which are easy to use and fairly inexpensive but requires little thought or design elements. Casual cameras, or “snap shot” cameras, are mainly automatically operated and are just point and shoot operated. However, with manual cameras, the photographer can control how the picture comes out and be proud that they created that photograph. On the other hand, with manual cameras there is more room for error than with automatic cameras, most of the times the results come out to the photographer’s advantage. A photographer’s wonderland is in The Dark Room. In the dark room, a photographer can do pretty much anything to make a negative do what they want. Negatives can be enlarged, cropped, repeated on a single sheet, merged with many other negatives, and burned or dodged to show more or less contrast to effect the outcome of the resulting photograph.

In black and white photography, there are many different types of cameras available. There are large format cameras, simple basic cameras, viewfinder cameras, rangefinder cameras, instant cameras, unusual cameras, twin lens reflex cameras, and single lens reflex cameras. In black and white photography there are many other aspects and equipment that go along with the different types of cameras to produce an image. There are different types of exposure meters, film, lenses, components and selecting of an image, light qualities, as well as the types of images that can be produced such as landscapes and portraits along with many other types. In black and white photography, these different aspects and techniques give the photographer the control they need to produce amazing photographs.