A picture to change our history

Many people don't realize how photography plays such an important role in our world, and even in our American history. Because of photography, people were able to capture the essence of what our history was. They were able to to capture a better image what who and what our history was.


Robert Capa was a photojournalist that changed our history and photojournalism. Photojournalism is where you travel as a photographer, but right about the pictures you take. For example, the pictures you see in the National Geographic.. these are from photo journalist. Robert Capa arrived on Omaha beach on June 6, D-Day, with the first infinity unit. He was there to document D-Day. He used 4 rolls of film, out of which 11 pictures turned out. One of these 11 pictures in labeled, "Pressure under fire"... this picture will become one of the most famous pictures of are time.

This picture has changed are history, all because of Robert Capa, the Photojournalist. To be able to capture time, and lock it into an image is priceless. This is why I love photography.

Film and digital cameras

In today's modern world, we are all about technology and everything is digital. We can almost do anything and everything using computers. Back in the 1880s, it was a little different. When photography first took off, they used film cameras. Instead of everything being digital, you have to use a type of film paper. I don't know a lot about film cameras... but, I do have one and am learning how to use it. It is good to know not only how to use a digital, but also film.
Once the digital cameras came out around the 1970s, it made the photographic world a lot more simple. Instead of processing the film, you could just download it to your computer. This also helped the photographic design take off as well. People could take photography to a whole new level. They all complimented each other.  Photography has advanced so much since the 1970s... and proceeds to grow in new possibilities opening up to technology.

Editing photos

Everyone has there own way of editing pictures. Some people like to use extreme editing with photo shop or an online editing site and some people like to do the bare minimum of editing. I have a mixture of both. Depending on the picture, I will decide if it needs black and white, cross press, sepia, or sometimes I will mess with the curves of the picture. The 'curves' of a picture are like using your own type of effect. Instead of black and white, you could make it pink and orange, or black and white with more contact. 
If your done messing with the color or how light and dark it is, you can go with the focus of the picture. You can make some things blurry but keep some things in focus. It really helps if you have a good camera with a lense,  like a canon or a Nikon. I have a Nikon D60 and it helps when I want to focus on a certain thing. In this picture in the girl with the rain, it shows that the focus is not only on the girl, but also the rain. This is usually the cameras doing. Also, one last thing to add, it is really easy to edit photos that are in 'raw'. You just have to change the settings on your camera from JPG. to raw. This will help a lot when trying to edit pictures.

How to catch the perfect shot....

Many different photographers have different ways of catching the perfect picture. For me, it is all about the placing of the picture. What are you taking a picture of? Whatever the subject is, you want to make sure you place it right in the picture. When taking pictures of people, I try and keep the person out of the center of the picture, and try and keep their head to the top of the picture. This way, there isn't any extra space in the picture, and puts full attention on the subject.

Some other things I like todo when capturing the perfect picture is backround. if I have two subjects of a picture; one being a person, which would be the 1st subject, and some sort of object, such as the eiffle tower, which would be subject two, I would keep the 1st subject still out of the center, but closer to the lense. This way, I would still have the person as the main center of attention.