...world. Few people know the actual history of both companies and the competition they have been in over the years. It’s an interesting history on how both companies started and how they have developed and challenged each other over the years. George Eastman, who was the founder of Kodak, started his business career as a 14-year old boy when he had to quit school and work to support his mother and two sisters. Mr. Eastman had a gift for organization and management while his lively and inventive mind made him a successful entrepreneur by his mid-twenties. What sparked the idea of a simple camera was that his coworker suggested he make a record of his vacation to Santo Domingo. As a result, he became absorbed with photography and wanting to simplify the photography process. Eastman started Kodak in 1880 and built it on four basic principles: mass production at low cost, international distribution, extensive advertising, and a focus on the customer. Later on he added the following policies: foster growth and development through continuing research, treat employees in a fair, self-respecting way, and reinvest profits to build and extend the business. Mr. Eastman started the company by manufacturing dry plates for sale to photographers. One mishap almost shut down the company when dry plates that were sold went bad. Eastman came up with a quick solution to recall the bad plates and replace them with a good product. His quick thinking saved the company and the company’s reputation...
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...Born into Brothels is a documentary focusing on the lives of a group of children who were born and live in the “red light” district of India, specifically the children of prostitutes. The documentary was well received by critics and won multiple awards, including an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. With such positive reception, it is important to examine what made this documentary so successful; its success can be broken down into two main components, method of delivery and subject matter. The film is shot almost entirely by a single camera, with no additional cameramen or microphone equipment. Much of the footage from the early part of the film was not intended to be included in the documentary, but was a side note of the Zana Briski’s original intent filming her experience in the red light district of India. However, as she got to know the children she began focusing the filming more on them and their situation. This leads the camera work related to the children in the early part of the file to be very rough, as Briski is often holding the camera while trying to interact with the children. When Briski is not holding the camera it is in a stationary position filming her, so it cannot capture the children’s part of the scene easily, only their voices. This is one of the film’s strengths, as it gives a first person feel to the storytelling, placing the viewer with the children and in the city just as Briski experienced it rather than just observing it in travel log...
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...Intro: Traffic light cameras are becoming more common at the major intersections in Colorado. The “Stop Running Red Lights” program was created to raise safety awareness and reduce traffic fatalities. Americans are in such a big hurry and there are more crashes at intersections from people trying to run the red light. Red-light cameras are designed to assist communities to control traffic in enforcing laws by photographing the vehicles as the driver’s run through the red light. However if your photo doesn’t come in clear they cannot prove who the driver of the vehicle was at the time of the offense. They began installing these cameras over the last seven years and overall they have not demonstrated a decrease in property damage or bodily injury.Two cities in Colorado, Fort Collins and Greenwood Village, have actually reported intersections where accidents have actually increased since they began enforcing the red-light cameras. The city is spending a lot of revenue installing these cameras and is this really about saving lives or just bigger revenue for “Big Brother”. This program has not demonstrated a significant reduction in bodily injury and proven to reduce the number of accidents involved at intersections. I drive down Santé Fe daily and I’ve observed many drivers’ speeding down the street to get past the light because the traffic line is too long. If Driver’s are now trying to speed through the light to beat the camera, how can this program be effective...
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...How does Cope so powerfully convey her feeling about the past in this poem? Wendy Cope is a very sarcastic and ironic and sarcastic poet and her poems often express different messages and feelings through her poems. She does this though her descriptive techniques her prevailing language and her ability to create a setting. This essay will look at how Cope powerfully conveys her feelings in the poem “On finding an Old Photograph.” In the poem Wendy effectively builds a picture for the reader to give them an insight on what the picture is like. She often does this by using onamatipia; “women dressed in white blouses that brush the grass.” The onamatipia occurs on the word ‘brush’ this helps make the poem all the more real for the reader. “In an apple orchard, sunlight patching his stylish bags;” this quote sets the place for the photograph again expanding on the ambience of the setting. Wendy moves on to mention the time and location, “Yalding, 1912”, the fact that this photo was taken in ‘1912’ is interesting because it is the year that the Titanic sank and this sets a bad tone for the poem, it implies to the reader that there are no good memories coming from this photograph. The descriptive techniques really do send across powerful feelings to the reader. Cope has written the poem in a very mysterious manner, it is made to clear to the reader that the poem is about her father as it mentions this is the first line of the first stanza but it is never clear who “a child with...
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...Elliott Brown Jr. Professor Deborah Willis Culture, History, Imaging, and Photography Studies December 6, 2011 Model as a Muse In my short career as a conscious photographer, which stems back to my junior year of high school, I have noticed a decisive pattern in my selection of models for my photographs, which lend their selves to fashion specifically, or at least attempt to. While I have not yet developed a particular favor for the aesthetic of one model over the next, it is my experience that the best models, the most responsive, self-aware, intelligent models, are the ones in which I was able to fall in love with. My models usually being women, I could not photograph her if I could not establish some relationship with her that transcended the superficial. I had to spend time with my models, grow with them in some way and understand them, and them myself, to the point where I only needed to provide them with the most minimal of direction during the shoot, and the rest they were able to guide independently. More generally speaking, the relationship between a photographer and those models who remain a distinctive presence in front of the camera amid the “make-up, hairstyling, and clothing being documented” (Koda and Kohle), is particularly fascinating in it’s ability to create additional layers of depth both within the assembled image and the ever-evolving idea of feminine beauty. Accordingly, photographers and designers have been able to portray their artistic visions...
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...operations to respond to external environmental changes. In this way, through carefully analysing the political, economic, social and technological changes in its external market, Jessops has been able to develop new business opportunities. 2. What has been happening to margins at Jessops? How have these margins been affected by changes in the economy, and by changes in competition in recent years? Jessops has been a leader in the photographic business for over 75 years. The Jessops story began in 1935, when Frank Jessop opened a photography store in Leicester. Today, the company is the UK’s premier photographic retailer operating from over 200 stores around the UK. In addition it has an online shop and call centre. Jessops is the trading name of The Jessop Group Limited, which is a subsidiary of Snap Equity Limited. A key part of Jessops’ product portfolio is its photo and imaging business. Jessops operates in two main sectors of the photography market. The modern photographic industry has changed radically. The business originally focused on producing prints from...
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...DeAngela Taylor Ms. Warner English 112-104 9 February 2014 A Place to Call Home Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit Christian organization. The main goal for Habitat for Humanity is to build houses for people who have low income, or for people who do not have a place to live. Also they want would-be homeowners to help them in the building their house and to get others to decrease the cost of owning a house. The website for Habitat for Humanity gives a good example of how they can help people who want to help others in being able to own a home of their own; through its links, slideshow of pictures, and how they can be contacted with ease without having them to have a hard time trying to find what they are looking for; unlike some websites. The first thing that stands out on the website is the links. It is set up so that a person can click on them and it will take them to where they want to go. Some of the websites that people go to look at have a whole lot of information cluttered up together; making it hard for people to find what they are looking for. The website has two places for finding links. The first set of links can be found at the top of the page and the other set of links are found in the middle of the page. The links in the middle of the page are bolder and more colorful for people who might have visual problems, or to make it easier for people to find their way around the website. For example, if a person wanted to become a volunteer without having to...
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...Topic: How to better your photography Specific purpose: To show some basic steps for taking good pictures Thematic statement: The three basic steps for taking better pictures are: handling the camera, lighting, and composition. INTRODUCTION I. Attention-arousing material: “ You do not take a photograph, you make it ” Ansel Adams II. Ethos-establishing material: I have been studying photography and on the basis of what I learned I picked some simple rules to show how to take good pictures. III. Preview: The three most essential steps which form the basis of taking good photographs are handling your camera, lighting, and composition. BODY I. (Step 1) Handling your camera A. How to hold your camera 1. The wrong way 2. The right way B. Stance 1. The wrong way 2. The right way II. (Step 2) Lighting A. Best light 1. Sunset and dawn B. Worst light 1. Sun is bright 2. Sun is right above you C. Placement of the subject in relation to light source 1. Don’t want light in the back of subject 2. Want light to be shining on subject D. Use of flash 1. Not just for night shooting III. (Step 3) Composition ...
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...3D Focus Tracking An invaluable feature for sports, action and wildlife photography, 3D focus tracking, available in select Nikon D-SLRs, automatically shifts the focus point to follow the movement of the subject. With the shutter release pressed halfway, you'll see in the viewfinder the lens continuously maintain focus as the subject moves. However, maintaining focus doesn't guarantee a sharp image, as there is a short time lag between the release of the shutter and the capture of the picture. To solve this problem, the focus tracking system is a predictive system that uses special algorithms to forecast the position of the subject at the moment the image is captured. The prediction is based on a measurement of the subject's movement and speed. Simple predictive tracking is very effective for pictures of a subject moving at constant speed toward the camera, but to provide maximum focusing performance for a subject that abruptly changes direction at high speed, or a subject with low contrast, moving randomly, the AF system must accumulate subject location data using multiple focus areas. The AF modules built into selected Nikon D-SLRs have as many as 51 focus areas that can detect vertical, horizontal and diagonal movement of the subject. To realize high-precision AF for high-speed continuous shooting of a fast-moving subject, the processing speed of the AF cycle is vital. To provide that speed, a Nikon proprietary technology called overlap servo prepares for the focus detection...
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...When dealing with photography there are two significant parts that create the photographs, optical and chemical. The optical portion of the photographic process varies depending on the type of photography. When dealing with film, the optical process works with the camera body, shutter, and the lens. When handling a digital camera, there usually isn’t a shutter. This style of camera uses the lens to focus light on a semiconductor in order to capture the image. The chemical processes mainly involve film or camera obscura. The chemical process is how the photograph is permanently captured. It is first captured on the silver coated paper. The chemicals are next used to develop that paper: the d76, stop bath, and fixer chemicals. Joseph Niepce was a French inventor credited with the creation and development of the first internal combustion engine along with his older brother Claude. In 1827 Niepce developed what is now considered the first surviving photograph which he called a heliograph. Heliograph is a Latin term meaning sun-writing. Shortly after Niepce teamed up with an artist named Louis Daguerre, they developed a process called physautotype. After Niepce’s death in 1833 Daguerre continued to work on the process and developed the Daguerreotype. The emulation of painting was notably the first style of photography, mainly due to the fact that photography had not yet been experienced. Photographers tried to reproduce the ideals that existed in their current popular art forms in...
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...best attribute goes to Henri Cartier–Bresson by all means. This legendary photographer’s contribution in the field of filming the scenes into stills is a perfect reference for almost all the brilliant hands that worked behind camera from the very time he encrypted the depth of this creative art. It is needless to say that the lovers of the art of photo shooting and the audience across the world have equally praised his glory that stretched throughout the twentieth century. Any amount of congratulation and the height of honor bestowed to his creative craftsmanship will not be sufficient to reflect his excellence and dedication in this fine art. This biography tries to make a journey through his life that was all about making a history of photography with outstanding moments of achievements from the rarest events in the chronicle of world politics and his revolutionary vision in the future of photojournalism. Early life Henri Cartier-Bresson was the first of the five children born to a rather wealthy family based on textile manufacturing industry on August 22, 1908 in Chanteloup-en-Brie in France. His hometown and the support of his family provided him with the facilities required for his choosing the desired path; and the young Henri embraced the art of sketching at every free minute-probably as a foundation for his development as a photographer later. Right from his childhood, Cartier-Bresson has a fascination for handling snapshot cameras and cherished a secret love for being...
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...Notes, on the media (1978). This selection was a response to the “The Boston Photos,” that were captured by Stanley Forman, from the Boston Herald American who used a motor –driven Nikon set at 1/250, 15.6-s. Ephron tries to inform and persuade the readers on why those Boston photos should be publish and why all photos make great journalism and she accomplish those things. With that being stated, her thesis and purpose of this selection is that photojournalism is better than written journalism. Ephron explains and give her opinion and others opinion on why and why not these Boston photos that were token around the 1930’s should or shouldn’t be publish for the public eyes. The audience of this selection would be students that major in photography or journalism, and on the other hand people who read the newspaper on the daily. Ephron starts her selection off by giving the reader background information on the Boston photos. She did not leave the audience guessing on what she was talking about. These pictures were taking while a firefighter was trying to save a young women’s and child’s life during an apartment fire. The photographer, Stanley Forman did not know the ending outcome of that failed rescue. As he took the photos you see the firefighter grabbing the ladder as the young women and child were felled unto the ground. The young women failed to her death but saved the child life while he landed on her dead body these photos were not captured. Ephron explains that over four...
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...The point of this exercise is to experiment with the camera and with technique, not necessarily to create high-quality photos. In fact, some of the photos (indoors without flash, for example) may be of poor quality. Do not alter these photos in Photoshop…submit the original file as it comes off your camera. Assignment: Take 16 digital photos using varying subjects and techniques to apply what we learned in class today. Name all photos as indicated below and place in a folder named yourlastname_firstphoto. Place this folder in the 59VanWyke folder. 1. two photos must be of the same subject at two different resolutions (640x480 and 1600x1200, or your smallest and largest resolutions). ▪ Slug these photos yourlastname640.jpg and yourlastname1600.jpg 2. two photos must be an indoor portrait of a person, one using auto flash and one without flash. ▪ Slug these photos yourlastnameindoorflash.jpg and yourlastnameindoorsnoflash.jpg 3. two photos must be an outdoor portrait of a person shot at mid-day (10 a.m. – 2 p.m.) in bright sunlight, one using fill-in flash (or “force flash”) and one without flash. ▪ Slug these photos yourlastnameoutdoorflash.jpg and yourlastnameoutdoornoflash.jpg 4. one photo must be a close-up (macro) of text in a book or other printed publication. ▪ Slug this photo yourlastnamemacro.jpg 5. two photos must be of the same subject, one using the camera’s zoom feature and one without zoom. You must shoot...
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...understanding of its goal will dictate its design. All the layout, information, functionality and its content should focused only to its main purpose. For this report, let us design a photographer’s website for a portrait studio specializing in family and children, even newborn babies, and event photography. Photo sessions can be taken in a studio location or to the clients’ homes, or to any location of their choice. The intended target for this website is primarily for families, but also caters to anyone who wants to have their pictures taken, whether on a formal studio setting or on any place of their choice. The content of the website will include the Homepage, Portfolio, Galleries, About, Contact, and Blog. The Homepage will have a grid layout of images from the most recent photography sessions. The Portfolio will have two menu selections for Portraits and Events, to showcase the photographer’s image processing ability. The Galleries section will show selected images that may or may not show under Portfolio, to promote the photographers versatility in every kind of special events and occasions. The About section is the photographer’s resume, qualification and maybe his current photography tools and gears. Contact section is the clients section to contact the photographer for appointments and special events. Blog section is where the photographer describes his personal experiences regarding a particular session. Tutorials may also be provided on this section to give clients a...
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...Photo Prints Price at Zoomin http://www.zoomin.com/Prices Corporate Name Calendars in 3 minutes! Click here Photo Books Photo Prints Canvas Prints Cameras All Products Sign In Help Join & get a Flipbook! Prices Prints Frames Books Mugs Cards Calendars Canvas Prints Posters Gifts Photo prints Think every photo print is the same? Think again! One look at our prints will make you a believer. At ZoomIn we go to great lengths to ensure every print we deliver to you is of the highest professional quality . From professional grade Kodak paper to the finest inks and equipment - all to complement our easy ordering process. Prints come in 13 different sizes - including 3 great square sizes and 2 large posters. Our new 6x4.5 size is perfect for compact digital cameras and will eliminate the cropping that is needed for 4x6 prints. Finish: Matte Size (all sizes are in inches) Shipping To:India - Standard Price per print Rs. 4.00 Rs. 4.00 +Shipping: Flat rate ANY QUANTITY Rs. 45.00 Rs. 45.00 Rs. 45.00 Rs. 45.00 2x3 (set of 4) 6x4.5 4x6 5x7 Rs. 3.00 Rs. 5.50 Rs. 4.00 Rs. 7.00 Enlargements 6x6 6x8 8x8 8x10 Rs. 28.00 Price per print Rs. 10.00 Rs. 15.00 Rs. 30.00 Rs. 40.00 +Shipping: First(10) Rs. 45.00 Rs. 45.00 Rs. 45.00 Rs. 45.00 Additional Rs. 4.00 Rs. 4.00 Rs. 4.00 Rs. 4.00 Large Sizes 8x12 12x12 12x18 12x24 12x36 16x20 20x24 20x30 Price per print Rs. 45.00 Rs. 80.00 Rs. 120.00 Rs. 180.00 Rs. 280.00 Rs. 210.00 Rs. 310.00 Rs....
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