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Please attempt to answer each question for full credit. Use your textbook as a resource and to cite specific works as necessary. *****Type and submit all answers on Blackboard. Chapter 7: Photography
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Identify the creator of the first photographic image? Joseph Nicphore Nipce.

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What part of the camera controls the amount of time light can strike the film? The camera shutter cont.

3. What was George Eastmans contribution to the development of photography? George Eastman developed the first dry plate process and later he developed the first Kodak camera.

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Why is the lens considered the most important part of a camera? What are the various capabilities of a good lens? - The lens is important because the quality of the image depends on it. The lens gathers and focuses the amount of light that gets into the camera.
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A good lens allows enough light to pass through it to produce a sharply defined image on a film with short exposure times.

- Lenses also have a large aperture permitting faster shutter by the photographer.

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5. Explain how a camera works, making sure to describe the shutter, lens, and aperture. Light first reflects on the object you intend to snap then passes into the camera by a pair of lenses onto a mirror. The light later bounces back into a piece of glass called a pentaprism. Once the light gets into the pentaprism, it passes through the eyepiece and enters your eye. When the camera button is pressed, the mirror flips up out of the way. Light from the object passes directly to the back of the camera to hit on the photographic film and then starts to perform a chemical reaction. 6. Discuss the developments in history that would lead to the development of photography up to the beginning of the 20th century.

7. The invention of photography has changed art more than any other invention. Citing examples, explain this statement. Discuss the evolution of photography as an accepted art form. Who were the primary contributors to this acceptance? Julia Margaret Cameroon pioneered the use of close-ups in photography. Before photograph wasnt considered as arts but now it is considered as an important tool in photography. Alfred Stieglitz opened the first photography studio in New York. 8. Who was Alfred Stieglitz and what was his contribution to photography? He was the first American photograph who opened a photography gallery in New York City in 190. He founded the magazine called Camera Work which helped in the publications of photography and essays about modern art and culture. His images had no manipulations. 9. Compare and contrast Jane and Louis Wilsons The Silence is Twice as Fast Backwards I with Man Rays Rayograph. How does process influence their imaging? Jane and Louis Wilson photography of The Silence is Twice as fast Backwards is quite similar to that of Man Rays Rayograph in that; they both make allusion of sun rays reflection on their images. Unlike Ray, Jane and Wilson use innovative means to get their ideas run through the minds of their audience. Jane and Wilsons arts look real but its still misleading because the

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objects in the images have undergone a perfect montage, while Rays image is just the use of objects and the act of placing light rays on them to depict a camera-like work. Ray made no use of a camera or a lens in his artwork, Jane and Louis used a camera but they took lots of patience to achieve perfection in taking their photograph. 10. What is digital imagery, and why is it important for the future? How has digital imagery influenced photography? What are the various directions in which photography is headed today? Digital imagery is a numerical representation of a two-dimensional image.it is important to the future in that, it helps preserve the quality of images created years before in a digitized format. Photography is presented in forms of sounds and videos.

Chapter 8: Film and Digital Arts Identify the technique where the actions of the actors are scanned and digitized in 3D modeling and used for recent films such as James Camerons Avatar.
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Motion capture 2. Identify the different types of film. The various types of films are action, adventure, romance, comedy, crime and gangster, drama, epics and historical, horror, musicals/dance, science fiction, war and westerns. The moving image, Montage, feature length animated, experimented films, and international coproduction. 3. When was the first computer art created? The first computer art was created by Desmond Paul Henry in 1960s 1965. 4What kinds of artworks are created for online viewing? Internet and digital artwork. 5. Discuss the development of motion pictures from its beginnings with Muybridge and his motion studies. Discuss the

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contributions of Griffith and Eisenstein in the development of motion picture photography.

6. What were some of the important contributions made by filmmakers who developed the basic visual language of films? Identify names and link them with their respective innovations.

7. Discuss how the use of montage was used by Sergei Eisenstein in The Battleship Potemkin to express powerful emotion. In Sergei film of The Battleship Potemkin, he combined a number of brief shots of different events that had occurred but having the same causes and effects he made use of strong emotions to capture the minds of the audience. In his montage, he showed so much in just less amount of time when he captured the events of a tragic historical event where a revolution that was to take place had failed and how many had died in trying to fight for the right cause during the mutiny on the Potemkin. 8. Discuss the ways the digital age revolutionized filmmaking. With the advent of digital imagery, animation became more animated and special effects got inserted into movies. Movies like Avatar were made that involved motion capture techniques.