The Definition, the Form, and the Technique

Let us now define what in the hell I'll be doing here in blogger for the rest of my life, as long as I have a camera, digital or film, and an active Internet connection.

Photography-
According to www.wikipedia.org
It is defined as the process of making pictures by means of the action of capturing light on a film or any medium. Light patterns reflected or emitted from objects are recorded onto a sensitive medium or storage chip through a timed exposure. The process is done through mechanical, chemical or digital devices commonly known as cameras.

I wonder if there are chemical cameras around? Or if there were chemical cameras...

Anyway,

The word comes from the Greek words phos ("light"), and graphis ("stylus", "paintbrush") or graphê, blah blah blah "drawing with light" or "representation by means of lines" or "drawing." Blah blah blah product of photography has been called a photograph. blah blah blah also call them pictures. In digital photography, the term image has begun to replace photograph. (The term image is blah blah blah geometric optics.)

i kinda get to like that word XD

    -No history
    -No significat people
    -No Whatso ever

Form-
Photography, I may now call IMAGERY since we are dealing with digital photographs, has many form. These forms use to describe the artistic value an which the Photo/Image are made or taken.

    • Candid photography -- candid shots
    • Documentary photography -- "roiji was here!"
    • Glamour photography -- look at my shirt, i am emo!
    • Erotic photography -- you know... "seduce me." "ah"... I might post some, joke.
    • Fashion photography -- am i beautiful?
    • Fine art photography -- Photograph that pass the fine arts something
    • Forensic photography -- Look Ma, i'm DEAD
    • Nature photography -- For the trees!
    • Wildlife photography -- Rar!
    • Macro photography -- Take a closer look!
    • Cloudscape photography -- I see a rabbit!
    • Landscape art -- Soil formations
    • Photojournalism -- this is me before, this is me after
    • Stock photography -- free for all photos
    • Street photography -- Look at the traffic..
    • Vernacular photography -- accidental art by th common man, i'm not common
    • Sports photography -- threeeee points!!
    • Portrait photography -- Family Picture! Picture!!

Why would I elaborate on them, some definitions are bogus anyway...
They're clickable if you want to read more.

Technique-
The techniques are the usual things that we do with our cameras to get those "artistic" effect, so to speak.
There are some techinique that I use quite often. And some, I cannot risk do with my phone/camera/media player

    • Aerial Photography
-the taking of photographs from the air with a camera mounted, or hand held, on an aircraft, helicopter, balloon, rocket, kite, skydiver or similar vehicle. I used this technique when I was on-board the plane going to Laoag City, Ilocos Norte last December 26-30, 2006. I used the "Flight Mode" feature of the phone so that I may not cause interference with the plane's communication system, according to the flight stewardess. Though here in the Philippines, they just want it OFF, unlike myself I wanted to use the feature, I paid for it, so I used it secretly. And go spectacular aerial photographs! Especially on the way home to Manila where I begged to have a window seat. I'll share them in my Laoag post Dec. 26-30, 2006 soon... wait for it!
    • Astrophotography
-a specialized type of photography that entails making photographs of astronomical objects in the night sky such as planets, stars, and deep sky objects such as star clusters and galaxies. I might try this using the Camera's Twilight Landscape preset. I still don't have the opportunity to try one since i don't have a tripod and the place where I lives/stay is "light-polluted". I got an image of the moon at my window. I guess that's enough. Considering that it's pitch dark outside at that time... That moon wakes me up at night during FULL phase... even at 3am... it stares at me saying wake up! i'm FULL... LOlXZ
    • Bokeh
-(from the Japanese boke, "blur") is a photographic term referring to out-of-focus areas in an image produced by a camera lens. The aesthetic qualities of the bokehs "balh blah blah", but it is generally conceded that an out-of-focus background image can at the very least reduce distractions and emphasize the primary subject. The definition itself is wierd... Does it points to the subject as bokeh or the blurry background? Anyway, I achieve this effect in macro mode and sometimes in auto mode and close up of up to 1 meter (with a far background). I use this alot. It's quite fun specially when it is time to view it in your computer or laptop with the bundled cable...
    • Contre-jour
-is French for 'against daylight', referring to photographs taken when the camera is pointing towards the light source. Commonly known as Silhouette. I use this when I fell like using it.. harharhahr! that was suppose to be a joke, anyway. I just got a few shot of this, or was it one (as of Jan 7, 2007) anyway, let's continue.
    • Cross processing
-is a term which describes the procedure of deliberately processing photographic film in a wrong chemical solution. Well, I can't use this since I can't process my images with chemical solutions... I can use photoshop with mine... click here
    • Cyanotype
-an old monochrome photographic printing process which gives a cyan-blue print. In short, blueprints! like here
    • Digiscoping
-is a method of obtaining photos using a digital camera through a telescope or, less often, binoculars. Afocal projection is a method of astrophotography in which photographs are taken by holding or mounting the camera over the telescope eyepiece, with the camera taking the place of your eye. Afocal projection is the method most commonly associated with digiscoping. I did this while I was at the Ilocos Sur LightHouse to view the waves of water along the shore while it splashes on the wall of rock along the shore.. it was really spectacular... Sorry guy no pic as of now... connection is crap. You'll see them soon, i promise.
    • Film developing
-chemical processing of the film after it was exposed in order make the negative or positive image to be futher process to be on paper or media... Sorry, I was kinda talking about somethings over there. I can't shorten the explanation... I can't even use this techinique with my Imagery...
    • Harris Shutter
-The effect is produced by re-exposing the same frame of film through Red, Green and Blue filters in turn, whilst keeping the camera steady. This will generate a rainbow of colour around any object that moves within the frame. It's not an equipment but a technique. It porduces those rainbow colors on moving object... The film is exposed trice for the RGB colors...
    • Kite aerial photography
-aerial photography using a kite. this is what i'm talking about. I WILL NEVER PUT MY PHONE IN A KITE! and no one can fly the kite at the right altitude in 10 secs for the camera's TIMER function. nor rig up a clicking device where you could just climb a building and take the picture there.. hehe'
    • Lith-Print
-a photographic printing process that uses standard black-and-white, photographic paper with lithographic developer to produce a grainy print with dark shadows and soft delicate highlights.. not much of an explanation though.. and i too is not familiar with this technique. this is a good site where you can view lith prints.. they're nice, with more emphasis on highlights and contrast, and whatchama call it.
    • Macro photography
-refers to close-up photography; the classical definition that the image projected on the "film plane" (i.e film or a digital sensor) is the same size as the subject. K800i macro mode is so cool that it can have that bokeh effect and nice clear crisp closeups with or without the flash... most of my subjects for macro mode is my eye, and plants specially flowers.
    • Night photography
-refers to photographs taken outdoors between twilight and dawn.Night photographers generally have a choice between using artificial light or using a long exposure, exposing the scene for seconds or even minutes, in order to give the film enough time to capture a usable image, and to compensate for reciprocity failure. With the camera's Twilight Landscape mode, you can too take nightshots! Gosh! this topic is getting boring, sorry...
    • Panoramic photography
-a style of photography that aims to create images with exceptionally wide fields of view, but has also come to refer to any photograph that is cropped to a relatively wide aspect ratio. Panoramic images captures a field of view comparable to, or greater than, that of the human eye - about 160° by 75° - and should do so while maintaining detail across the entire picture. The camera also have this so you can let your family and friends view the great beach, or how high you are, or how beautufil the plains are, or how far out is the mountain range...
    • Photogram
-a photographic image made (without a camera) by placing objects directly onto the surface of a photo-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light. Like that of X-ray machines or scanner, no direct focus, depth of view or what so ever, plain 2D image.
    • Photographic print toning
-any chemical process used to modify the color of monochrome photographic prints. They make the tones of the image different before printing. An example of this would be Sepia Toning. The Camera also has this toning so that you don't need to bother editing your images to get that antique effect.
    • Push printing
-push printing and push developing refer to a process where a picture is printed as if it were a film speed higher than intended by the film manufacturer. It doesn't seem to clear but to me. It's like white balance or metering mode. No need for push printing to perfect your image... use the setting and you can have that great image even before printing.
    • Rephotography
-the act of repeat photography of the same site, with a time lag between the two images; a "then and now" view of a particular area. The before and after effect...
    • Rollout photography
-in the basic technique, a camera with a vertical slit aperture is positioned opposite a turntable on which an object is centered. Both the object and the camera are oriented as precisely as possible so as to eliminate aberrations due to the focusing mechanism of the camera, the aperture, and the characteristics of the object itself. In short, it taked the murals of a vase or something round and prints it in a roll out paper or film... Just a few more... hayz
    • Sabatier Effect
-or the Solarisation effect on prints and films maybe... a phenomenon in photography in which the image recorded on a negative or on a photographic print is wholly or partially reversed in tone. Dark areas appear light and vice versa. The camera also has this feature.. it's cool especially in sunny days...
    • Stereoscopy
-3-D (three-dimensional) imaging is any technique capable of recording three-dimensional visual information or creating the illusion of depth in an image... can't be done with the camera though.. maybe some editing can.. at least you have 3.2Mpx of picture to edit ^^,
    • Sun printing
-it is a photographic process in which the final print is produced by conventional lithographic printing processes. According to the text in wikipedia, the gelatine thingy.. We once did this in WorkShop class, 6 years ago, when I was 1st year High School in Don Bosco Technical College, we used this technique for sreen printing, printing images on T-Shirts. We prepared an image on an ACETATE/Transparency. Spread the gelatine mixture to the screen let it dry and placed the transparency over the screen and placed it under the sun until it left a mark on the screen , washed it off and it left the mark on the screen that could not be washed on and then we paint it over shirts and we have a project.. hehe' or maybe that's not the technique that i was talking about? hehe'
    • Infrared photography
-uses infra-red filters and infra-red sensitive film to capture the infra-red spectrum that bounces fo objects...
    • Ultraviolet photography
-like that of the infrared but uses Ultra Violet rays.
    • Time-lapse
-a cinematography technique whereby each film frame is captured at a rate much slower than it will be played back. The k800i doesn't have this since it takes long time intervals or long exposure time. What the camera has is the BestPic. the high-speed photography version.. the oppsite of time-lapse photography..

Well, that's all I can say.. *phew* gosh, it took me the whole day to prepare and write this. I only have words to show you... I too is anticipaitng my own images online

Did you notice that I highlit useless words...? nothing in particular....