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Artist of the Week- Henry Fox Talbot
Artist of the Week- Henry Fox Talbot 1. The composition is very good considering the time period he was in. You can see how he used negatives and positives to vividly display images. 2. I find it interesting how he persevered through the tough process of creating the photos and took so many. 3. Considering the fact that Talbot was living in the 19th century, his technical quality is amazing. You can clearly see images in his photos and he was not able to use any modern technology to help himself.
Weekly Vocabulary 9/14
1. Histogram: A graph showing the distribution of light on a photo. Shows how many pixels of each brightness are in each photo. 2. Focal Length: The distance between the point of convergence of the lens and the sensor or film recording the image. It tells you how much of a scene you will be able to capture. 3. Metadata: This is specific data about an image which can include the author, file name, content, theme, etc. 4. Megabyte: Unit of measurement of how large a digital file is. One megabyte is equal to 1,024,000 bytes. 5. Gigabyte: Another unit of measurement of how large a digital file is. This is made up of 1, 000 megabytes.
Discussion
I thought it was really interesting how the daguerreotype photos are biologically active and are one of the first examples of nanotechnology. The conservation of one of MoMa's oldest images is a lot harder than it may seem as they have to be careful not to do anything of the simple things that may ruin the image. I thought it was really cool how Talbot continued to improve his process of making photos by changing some substances he was using until he perfected his images.
