Photo II: Research
Camera and Processing Technique Research Project
Students will research different cameras and processing techniques for this research project. Students will need to go in detail with their answers and use their camera book as well as the internet (DO NOT USE WIKIPEDIA).
Part 1:The Worlds First Camera (Give me a example images for each question)
Students will research the history of the first camera, Camera Obscura, it is the simplest of all cameras.
1. What is a Camera Obscura? Explain it.
2. How does it work? Explain it.
3. How did people use this camera? Explain.
4. How did it change the world when it was created? Explain.
5. How did it lead to the modern day camera? Explain.
6. What type of images were captured by the Camera Obscura? Explain.
7. How did one keep a image from a Camera Obscura? Explain.
Part 2: The Race to the Modern Camera (Give me a example images for each question)
1. Which camera is considered the father of all modern-day cameras? Explain why.
2. What was so special about this camera? What did it do that was so unique? Explain.
3. What did it take to process the image this camera took? Explain.
4. What all did this camera kit entail when you bought it? Explain.
5. What type of film did this camera use or did it use film at all? Explain.
6. What was the camera made out of? Explain.
7. Was it easy to use? Was it for everybody? Explain.
8. Why was it a race to be the first modern day camera? Explain.
Part 3: Plates: Wet vs. Dry (Give me a example images for each question)
1. Cameras used plates to capture the image they took, which material was used as the plate? Explain why it was used.
2. What does it mean if it is a wet-plate? Explain what a wet plate is.
3. Did dry plates require a different processing method then wet plates? Explain.
4. What was the value/benefit of using a wet plate vs a dry plate? Explain.
5. How did one travel or take location shots with wet plates? Explain.
Part 4: Stereo Photography (Give me a example images for each question)
1. What is Stereo Photography? Explain.
2. How are Stereo Photography mounted? Explain
3. What child toy (that is still used to day) came out of Stereo Photography? Explain how it came about and what images where usually used for this toy.
4. What does the cameras that capture the image of Stereo Photography look like? Explain.
5. How are they different from regular cameras? Explain.
Part 5: Changes in the Camera (Give me a example images for each question)
1. What does the addition of bellow to the camera body allows the photographer to do? Explain.
2. How does the lens being able to adjust how much light is allowed into the camera affect the image? Why was this a good thing? Explain.
3. How does the size of the camera change over time and how does it affect the way images are capture? Explain.
4. What allowed for cameras to become smaller? Explain.
Part 6: How did Photography change the way we see the world.
1. What were the first images ever taken by a camera? Explain why that subject matter was probably chosen.
2. As the camera got smaller and easier to carry what did we start documenting? Explain.
3. How did photography ease the pain of loss for families? Explain.
4. What is Death Photography? What different kinds of Death Photography are there? Explain.
5. What weird thing did some photographers do to the subject in their death portraits to make them look alive? Explain. (Its nothing gross).
6. How was photography look upon in its infancy? Explain.
7. How did the way photography looked and changed over time? Who help change how photography was seen by the world? Explain.
8. How is photography seen today? Explain.
Part 7: Camera Inventions
1. Who created the the Polariod Camera?
2. When was the first Polariod camera made?
3. What size was the picture and how long did it take to develop?
4. Who created one of the first spy cameras?
5. What major camera company then created a better spy camera?
6. What shapes did spy cameras take on over the years?
7. How many well known spy cameras are there?
8. What is the best known spy camera?
9. What is a bellow and how does it work?
10. In 1906 which camera was marketed to kids and why to kid?
11. Who was Kodaks biggest competitor in the early 1900's?
Part: 8 Photographers through out time.
Find 15 different artist and their work from 1839-1950. Give me two examples of the artist and answer the following questions:
1. Who is the artist?
2. When did they take the picture?
3. What type of camera did they use?
4. What type of photography print is it?
5. When you look at the image what do you see? Explain in detail what you see.
6. What value does society put on this image? Explain.
7. Why did you pick this artist and this image? Explain in detail.
8. What value do you put on this image? Explain in detail.