Photography

What Is Photography?

The definition of Photography: the process or art of producing images of objects on sensitized surfaces by the chemical action of light or of other forms of radiant energy, as x-rays, gamma

rays, or cosmic rays.

What Photography Is To me…

• To me it is a art form.• To me it is a creative outlet. • To me it is a way to capture people, moments,

or scenes you love and want to always remember.

• A way to communicate and get your point across through images.

But what is Photography to you?

Photography does not always have to be a professionally taken

picture. It can be something as simple as this: Capturing the moment Dani decided

to steal her mom’s lipstick.

Photography is capturing a moment: A quiet summer evening on the lake.

Photography is art: You see something that catches your eye, plan out the picture, and snap it.

What Others Think About Photography…

• Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

– Edward Abbey

• And that desire--the strong desire to take pictures--is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working or not, photographers are looking, seeing, and thinking about what they see, a habit that is both a pleasure and a problem, for we seldom capture in a single photograph the full expression of what we see and feel. It is the hope that we might express ourselves fully--and the evidence that other photographers have done so--that keep us taking pictures.

– Sam Abell -Seeing and Shooting Straight by Sam Abell

• You should never think without an image.

- Aristotle

• ...people say they need to express their emotions I'm sick of that. Photography doesn`t teach you to express your emotions it teachs you to see.

– Bernice Abbott - Art News, January 1981

• Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

- Dorothea Lange

Photography means many different things

to many people.

So.....

It is up to you to decided!