Tuesday, April 12, 2016

WEEKLY VOCABULARY

1. Cyanotype: This is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. It is mainly used in printing architectural blueprints. 
2. Solarisation: This is a phenomenon in photography when the images appear reverse in tone. The dark areas appear light and the light areas appear dark.
3. Photogram (Man Ray's rayograph): Photos produced by photographic material such as light-sensitive paper, but not using a camera.

Friday, April 1, 2016

WEEKLY VOCAB

GIF: Stands for Graphic Interchange Format. This is the standard format for saving color graphics and short animations. 
Zoopraxiscope: The way they made olden days' animation which worked by showing a sequence of still photographs in rapid succession.
Kinetoscope: an early motion-picture device in which the images were viewed through a peephole.
Chronophotography: This was an old photographic technique from the Victorian era which captures movement in several frames of print that could be arranged next to each other for a bigger picture.