Photography 101

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Photography 101

• Focus

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Depth of Field

• Shallow
• to
• Deep

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Focus

• Automatic or
• Manual???

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Camera Shake

• Stance -
• Tripod
• Night Photography
• requires long exposure slow shutter speed

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Photographs that Changed the World

• "Any picture can speak 1,000 words, but only
  a select few say something poignant enough to
  galvanize an entire society. The following
  photographs screamed so loudly that the entire
  world stopped to take notice."

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Ground Zero SpiritPhotographer Thomas E.
FranklinYear 2001
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The Afghan GirlPhotographer Steve McCurry
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Napalm Girl
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Starving Boy and Missionary
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Segregated Water FountainsPhotographer
Elliott Erwitt Year 1950
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Earthrise Photographer William Anders,
NASAYear 1968
The late adventure photographer Galen Rowell
called it the most influential environmental
photograph ever taken. Captured on Christmas
Eve, 1968, near the end of one of the most
tumultuous years the U.S. had ever known, the
Earthrise photograph inspired contemplation of
our fragile existence and our place in the cosmos.
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Anne FrankPhotographer unknownYear 1941
Six million Jews died in the Holocaust. For many
throughout the world, one teenage girl gave them
a story and a face. She was Anne Frank, the
adolescent who, according to her diary, retained
her hope and humanity as she hid with her family
in an Amsterdam attic. In 1944 the Nazis, acting
on a tip, arrested the Franks Anne and her
sister died only a month before their camp was
liberated. The world came to know her through her
words and through this ordinary portrait . She
stares with big eyes, wearing an enigmatic
expression, gazing at a future that the viewer
knows will never come.
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Migrant MotherDorothea Lange, 1936
For many, Florence Owens Thompson is the face of
the Great Depression. Taken while visiting a
dusty California pea-pickers camp in February
1936, the photographer captured the resilience of
a proud nation facing desperate times.
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HindenburgMurray Becker, 1937
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Einstein with his Tongue OutArthur Sasse, 1951
While Einstein certainly changed history with his
contributions to nuclear physics and quantum
mechanics, this photo changed the way history
looked at Einstein. By humanizing a man known
chiefly for his brilliance, this image is the
reason Einsteins name has become synonymous not
only with "genius," but also with "wacky
genius."While Einstein certainly changed history
with his contributions to nuclear physics and
quantum mechanics, this photo changed the way
history looked at Einstein. By humanizing a man
known chiefly for his brilliance, this image is
the reason Einsteins name has become synonymous
not only with "genius," but also with "wacky
genius."
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Hazel Bryant
It was the fourth school year since segregation
had been outlawed by the Supreme Court. Things
were not going well, and some southerners accused
the national press of distorting matters. This
picture, however, gave irrefutable testimony, as
Elizabeth Eckford strides through a gantlet of
white students, including Hazel Bryant (mouth
open the widest), on her way to Little Rocks
Central High.
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Tianammen SquarePhotographer Stuart
Franklin-MagnumYear 1989
A hunger strike by 3,000 students in Beijing had
grown to a protest of more than a million as the
injustices of a nation cried for reform. For
seven weeks the people and the Peoples Republic,
in the person of soldiers dispatched by a riven
Communist Party, warily eyed each other as the
world waited. When this young man simply would
not move, standing with his meager bags before a
line of tanks, a hero was born. A second hero
emerged as the tank driver refused to crush the
man, and instead drove his killing machine around
him. Soon this dream would end, and blood would
fill Tiananmen. But this picture had shown a
billion Chinese that there is hope
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Abbey Road1969 Ian MacMillan
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I Have a DreamPhotographer Bob AdelmanYear
1963
WASHINGTON, D.C.At the climax of his I Have A
Dream speech, Martin Luther King Jr. raises his
arm on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and
calls out for deliverance with the electrifying
words of an old Negro spiritual hymn, Free at
last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are
free at last!, 1963.
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Mandela Walks FreePhotographerYear
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The Kiss at Times SquarePhotographer Alfred
Eisenstaedt Year 1945