Hello, and welcome to my GCSE Photography website. On this website, I will be uploading pictures that I have taken, and include research of many different photographers during each research project.
About Me
Photography is probably one of my main passions, and I love capturing and expressing the beauty of our surroundings. I adore how cameras can make even the dullest of places amazing thanks to advancements in technology. My favourite type of photographs to take are landscape photographs because I love exploring and everywhere I go, I record with a series of stunning pictures to keep for memories. When I am older, I want to become a professional photographer and explore the world for all of its beauty, capturing mesmerising still images that hold their own style and grace. I will most likely try to specialise in mobile landscape photography because they are much more portable and thanks to technology, are just as good at taking pictures as actual cameras. I always want to get out there to make more photographs because you never know when you will get those 'perfect' photographs.
Photography is probably one of my main passions, and I love capturing and expressing the beauty of our surroundings. I adore how cameras can make even the dullest of places amazing thanks to advancements in technology. My favourite type of photographs to take are landscape photographs because I love exploring and everywhere I go, I record with a series of stunning pictures to keep for memories. When I am older, I want to become a professional photographer and explore the world for all of its beauty, capturing mesmerising still images that hold their own style and grace. I will most likely try to specialise in mobile landscape photography because they are much more portable and thanks to technology, are just as good at taking pictures as actual cameras. I always want to get out there to make more photographs because you never know when you will get those 'perfect' photographs.
Quotes from photographers:
- "You don't take a photograph, you make it" - Ansel Adams
- "Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still" - Dorothea Lange
- "Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera" - Yousuf Karsh
- "Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst" - Henri Cartier-Bresson
- "There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are" - Ernst Haas
- "Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject" - Elliot Porter
- "Photography is a major force in explaining man to man" - Edward Steichen
- "A camera is a SAVE button for the minds eye" - Roger Kingston
The history of photography
Photography is actually a word derived from two Greek words, one being 'photos' which means light and the other is 'graphein' which means to draw. Cameras have allowed us to capture pieces of history and hold on to memories, and also changes the way we see the world.
The first ever photograph was taken in 1826 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce and it depicts the view from an upstairs window at Niépce's estate, Le Gras, in Burgundy, France. The first coloured photograph was produced by Thomas Sutton in 1861, but the idea of colour photography, also known as the three colour method, was created/theorised by James Clerk Maxwell. The first picture of the moon was produced in 1839 by John William Draper. The first picture of the sun was produced in 1845 by Leon Foucault and Louis Fizeau.
Photography is actually a word derived from two Greek words, one being 'photos' which means light and the other is 'graphein' which means to draw. Cameras have allowed us to capture pieces of history and hold on to memories, and also changes the way we see the world.
The first ever photograph was taken in 1826 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce and it depicts the view from an upstairs window at Niépce's estate, Le Gras, in Burgundy, France. The first coloured photograph was produced by Thomas Sutton in 1861, but the idea of colour photography, also known as the three colour method, was created/theorised by James Clerk Maxwell. The first picture of the moon was produced in 1839 by John William Draper. The first picture of the sun was produced in 1845 by Leon Foucault and Louis Fizeau.