Module 1: Digital Photography Critical Analysis

Digital Photography
1. Introduction A sailor planting a wet one on a nurse, Man walking on the moon, a student standing up to a line of tanks, and the horrifying moment a plane crashed into a skyscraper.

Figure 1 –"V-J Day, Times Square, 1945", a.k.a. "The Kiss" “Man on the Moon, Apollo 11, 1969” "Tiananmen Square, China, 1989" “9/11 Attacks, New York City, 2001”

All of these iconic images from history would be nothing but memories without the invention of photography. The power of photography has allowed us to see distant places, events before our lifetime, people from foreign lands and tragedies including war; all through the view of a lens. In just under 200 years, photography has transformed the world we live in enabling us to see not only beyond the boundaries of time and location but also beyond the range of human vision through macro, infrared and high-speed photography.

Figure 2 – High Speed Photography, Bullet shot through an apple

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Module 1: Digital Photography Critical Analysis

Photography has changed a lot since its inception, what once was a painstakingly slow process involving specialized equipment and chemicals has become a revolutionary digital medium accessible by virtually anyone. 2. A Brief History of Cameras While the founding ideas behind what would become photography date back as far as the ancient Romans, the real history of cameras starts in the 17th century. Photography’s history revolves the pioneering attempts to reproduce images, regardless of the success or failure of these early photographic attempts. The first relevant device to appear in the history of photography is a device known as a Camera Obscura. The Camera Obscura consisted of a box that had a tiny hole at one end. An inverted image and enlarged version of what the small hole was viewing would