What is Digital Photography?
Digital photographs can be produced in many ways:
1) directly with a digital camera
2) capturing a frame from a video
3) scanning a conventional photograph
Digital Photography is a photographic method that stores the image digitally for later reproduction. Use of a digital camera which stores pictures digitally instead of on film like a traditional camera. A type of photography in which images can be viewed on a computer screen, the art and science of producing and manipulating digital photographs. Once a photograph is in digital format, you can apply a wide variety of special effects to it with image enhancing software. With Digital Photography you can blur the background of your pictures, change the lighting, make the picture look sharper and change the color of the picture. Some features in digital cameras are image stabilization, auto focus, face recognition, file format support and other favourable features.
The Presidential Portrait of Barack Obama was the first official U.S. Presidential Portrait to be taken with a digital camera.
Disadvantages of digital cameras
· When highlights burn out, they burn to white without details, while film cameras retain a reduced level of detail.
· The possibility that in the future certain digital file formats (for example, JPEG) may become obsolete/replaced.
· Dust particles can adhere to the cover glass of the image sensor in digital cameras, resulting in persisting dust spots in images. Film cameras use a fresh piece of film for each shot, so dust does not build up on the film. Digital image sensors may be cleaned with a simple cleaning kit or professionally, and some digital cameras have built-in sensor cleaning mechanisms, mitigating this problem.
Advantages of consumer and professional digital cameras.
· Instant review of pictures, with no wait for the film to be developed: if there's a problem with a picture, the photographer can immediately correct the problem and take another picture
· Minimal ongoing costs for those wishing to capture hundreds of photographs for digital uses, such as computer storage and e-mailing, but not printing
· Many digital cameras now include an AV-out connector (and cable) to allow the reviewing of photographs to an audience using a television
· Anti-shake functionality (increasingly common in inexpensive cameras) allow taking sharper hand-held pictures where previously a tripod was required
· Digital manipulation: A digital image can be modified and manipulated much easier and faster than with traditional negative and print methods. The digital image to the right was captured in RAW format, processed and output in 3 different ways from the source RAW file, then merged and further processed for color saturation and other special effects to produce a more dramatic result than was originally captured with the RAW image.
Digital Photographers
Digital Photographers
Shaun Simpson
Shaun Simpson, a Halifax, Nova Scotia based professional photographer, captures and creates photographs with a unique digital twist. Specializing in glamour, modeling portfolios, actor head shots, and product and fashion photography.
“We specify "digital" photography in the name because we offer services that far exceed what could be done with traditional photography. We offer complete post-production solutions, such as advanced image retouching and recomposition, damaged and antique photo restoration.”
Post-production, Retouching, and Restoration:
From portraits and products, to homes and hair; Shaun Simpson Digital Photography has the expertise and experience to take your photographs to the next level: restore old photographs to a new level of glamour, turn your snapshots into keepsakes, or get a touch-up to those professional photographs.
His shots have been seen in Fashion, the Coast, the Chronicle Herald, and various commercial websites. His own website, ssimpson.ca, features an impressive selection of landscapes, commercial work, and portraits, from avant garde models to truly beautiful people.From portraits and products, to homes and hair; Shaun Simpson Digital Photography has the expertise and experience to take your photographs to the next level: restore old photographs to a new level of glamour, turn your snapshots into keepsakes, or get a touch-up to those professional photographs.
August 2010
Lower Prospect
Nova Scotia
June 2010
June 2010
Dave Black
Dave's work has appeared in a variety of magazines such as Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek, ESPN, Parade and The Wall Street Journal. And with such publishers such as Simon & Schuster, Bantam Double Day, Pindor Press, Hyperion, Scribner, and Broadway. Television shows on ABC Sports, CBS Sports, E Entertainment, NBC Sports, and the award winning ESPN Classics also use Dave's work. Some of his clients include Chevy, McDonalds, Reebok, Hallmark, Coca Cola, Xerox, Nikon, Visa, Johnson & Johnson, Nikon, Kodak, NFL Properties, and The United States Olympic Committee. Dave is a regular staff member and featured speaker with several workshops including Rich Clarkson's Sports Photography Workshop with Sports Illustrated, Photography at the Summit with National Geographic, the Digital Summit with Nikon, Nikon's Churchill Downs Photojournalism Seminars, Sports Shooter Workshop, Nikon College Series and a variety of lectures and workshops at various colleges and universities. Dave has been a featured speaker at Photokina.
(if you can not see the photos go on this site http://www.daveblackphotography.com)
"I love to make photographs. It is as simple as that. I love to make photographs that draw the audience into a captured moment in time.
My education in graphic design and studio drawing lends itself perfectly to this idea of not only capturing the moment, but to do so in such a way that it draws the audience in for a longer and closer look. While the moment attracts the attention of the viewer, my goal is to hold their attention as well. It is the perfection of the use of light, shadows, background and color, combined with high resolution quality that will keep the audience. I approach each image with these principals in mind. Always striving for perfection means always learning. They are one and the same. One of the best ways to learn is to teach. I have been instructing at workshops and lecturing about photography since 1986."- Dave Black
How digital technology changed the role of photography in the society
Today, everything seems like digital technology is impacting some sort of process in our everyday lives. Digital cameras, especially, have increased into the mainstream of consumers’ lives, and have easily become the preferred choice for taking a photograph. Digital cameras have the ability to have a dramatic effect on the process of the way photographs are taken today for numerous reasons. It is beginning to affect society in a number of ways, both positive and negative. Jane Wakefield of the BBC wrote, “Digital cameras give ordinary people more freedom with their photos”. She stated that it “gives you the ability to decide what you want to print and the freedom to manipulate images, unlike going to a traditional photo print shop where you might get just four decent images back. Also with digital technology, instead of sending a photo through regular mail where it may take quite long to reach it’s recipient, e-mail is a convenient way of sending the photograph in an instant. Another positive note about digital technology changing society is the fact that it gives anyone the ability to point and take a photograph with a digital camera and the ability to know that if you don’t like what you have shot, you have the option of deleting the photograph and take another photograph again. This is much more convenient than yester years of going back to the darkroom to find out that the photograph is not to your standards. However, there is also negativity surrounding the use of digital cameras. Jayne West writes in an article for BBC News that digital photos are causing us to “lose the past.” What West means by this is that we lose the sequence of images that captures the events leading up to whatever image is chosen for publication. West writes, “When you shoot traditional stills, you shoot rolls of film and there are a series of pictures taken while you wait for the news to happen. You shoot everything in the possibility that one of those shots may be the news story. With digital capture, the photographer arrives and shoots his images in the same way. But, because of storage issues on the camera, he will have to delete some of those images as he goes along. A whole collection of material, that may well be far more interesting in the months and years after the even than in the hard news context, is being lost at that stage.” In short, West is making the claim that, because of the digital capabilities and limits, many of the photographs are lost, thus losing a possible alternative viewpoint in the process.
Differences Between Digital and Regular Photography
What Has Been The Impact of Digital Photography on Journalism?
How digital technology changed the role of photography in the society
Today, everything seems like digital technology is impacting some sort of process in our everyday lives. Digital cameras, especially, have increased into the mainstream of consumers’ lives, and have easily become the preferred choice for taking a photograph. Digital cameras have the ability to have a dramatic effect on the process of the way photographs are taken today for numerous reasons. It is beginning to affect society in a number of ways, both positive and negative. Jane Wakefield of the BBC wrote, “Digital cameras give ordinary people more freedom with their photos”. She stated that it “gives you the ability to decide what you want to print and the freedom to manipulate images, unlike going to a traditional photo print shop where you might get just four decent images back. Also with digital technology, instead of sending a photo through regular mail where it may take quite long to reach it’s recipient, e-mail is a convenient way of sending the photograph in an instant. Another positive note about digital technology changing society is the fact that it gives anyone the ability to point and take a photograph with a digital camera and the ability to know that if you don’t like what you have shot, you have the option of deleting the photograph and take another photograph again. This is much more convenient than yester years of going back to the darkroom to find out that the photograph is not to your standards. However, there is also negativity surrounding the use of digital cameras. Jayne West writes in an article for BBC News that digital photos are causing us to “lose the past.” What West means by this is that we lose the sequence of images that captures the events leading up to whatever image is chosen for publication. West writes, “When you shoot traditional stills, you shoot rolls of film and there are a series of pictures taken while you wait for the news to happen. You shoot everything in the possibility that one of those shots may be the news story. With digital capture, the photographer arrives and shoots his images in the same way. But, because of storage issues on the camera, he will have to delete some of those images as he goes along. A whole collection of material, that may well be far more interesting in the months and years after the even than in the hard news context, is being lost at that stage.” In short, West is making the claim that, because of the digital capabilities and limits, many of the photographs are lost, thus losing a possible alternative viewpoint in the process.Differences Between Digital and Regular Photography
There are many differences between film and digital photography. First off would be the sensor. When taking a photograph with a traditional camera, the shutter opens for a certain amount of time to let the light in and the image is captured on the film. When the next photo is ready to be taken the film is rolled to place an empty film behind the lens. In digital photography, it is an electronic sensor that is called a CCD that is placed behind the lens, replacing the film. The photo is captured by valued pixels that make up the photograph, and is saved as digital media. The biggest difference this makes, is that you are unable to blur the background in the photograph and only focus on the subject you are photographing with digital photography, as the entire image will be sharp.
The next difference would be the instantaneous results of digital photography. You do not have to wait to develop the photos in a dark room to see how the photograph turned out. This can be good or bad. For one, you can see right away if the photograph turned out well or it needs to be re-taken, but on the other hand, if you are trying to get a natural photograph and the subject is reviewing the images as they are being taken, it may affect the pureness of the photo. Although a helpful part of the digital screen is that you are able to take the photograph without looking through the view finder, which increases the range you are able to photograph.
Digital and film photography can be complimentary. Digital photography stemmed from film photography, and having awareness and understanding of film photography can vastly improve your skills using digital media. The majority of editing tools used in photoshop are based on techniques used in a dark room. They are very much inter-related.
(photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/gabby_nunez/2579922054)What Has Been The Impact of Digital Photography on Journalism?
As the technology change, digital photography has become the most popular type of photos. Almost everyone is taking photos digitally rather than in the old film form. So as the journalists, they found digital photography is giving their works more convenience. Compare with the old days, photographers are now working on their computers with many photo editing software than in the darkroom processing the films after taking the photos. By using those photo editing software, the photographers can improve and enhance the quality of their photos, under the ethic of codes of The National Press Photographers Association, this is an acceptable change. However, there are some photographers that do not follow the rules. They misuse the technology, they alter the contents in the photos to make the effects that they wanted. Sometimes they manipulate the photos just to want to make up some interesting headlines to increase the sale of their press. They ignore the accuracy of the information, added many personal opinions and ideas into the photos, and present them subjectively.
You may say the convenience of the digital photo cannot be neglected, yes it unable the photographers more flexibility to do their work, they can have many shoots for an object or event, to make sure there are some great images with least cost, unlike using the films, that might cost them a lot to have a great photo. Digital photography saves their time as well, working on the computer must be faster than the old ways in the darkroom. Photos can be sent through the wires to anywhere, reproduction can be fast. But some are abused the use of technology, they hide the truth, alter the facts, and this may even hurting others, the public can never know the truth.
This photo was taken in June 2001 in the Gulf of Mexico by a crew member of the C-Rambler. The original photo was only with one single waterspout spotted, however someone altered the photo and added two additional waterspouts to make the photo more topicality. Later this manipulated photo has been distributed online to everywhere and titled the photo was taken during the storms of Hurricane Lili in 2002. They were not only manipulated the content in the photo, they even manipulated the date taken. This is serious, this totally betrayed the code of ethic of the photojournalism.
“This heavily manipulated image of a great shark attacking a military helicopter in front of golden gate was a true Internet e-mail "hit" in 2001.” (Sindre Falk, Nov 2, 2009) This photo is absolutely lying, the editor may combining few photos together to get this attractive scene, and made everyone talking about it. The editor did not tell the truth at this point and lie to the audience of creating a “fact”, this is totally unacceptable and cannot be called photojournalism.
Sources:
http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=7192E9D92934B79213901A7C24A7F99F.inst1_2a?docId=5002366574
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=46964
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=46964
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