Articles and Tutorials

Photography 101 - Part 2 - One Exposure, Many Looks

Author: 
Michelle Cox
Source: 
Groundglass, December 2005

In the last part we learned how shutter speed, aperture, and ISO work together to form an exposure. As promised, this part we will be discussing how changing one or more and compensating with the others can offer the same exposure but a very different photo.

Photography 101 - Part 1 - Understanding Exposure

Author: 
Michelle Cox
Source: 
Groundglass, November 2005

Picture an ordinary garden hose. One end of the hose is attached to the spigot on the house and the other is lying in a bucket. Your goal is to fill the bucket with the exact amount of water that fulfills your creative vision. If you don’t add enough water, it will be under filled (under exposed) if you add to much, it will be over filled (over exposed). With water in a bucket, it doesn’t get much more complicated. No matter how you fill it, you still have just water in a bucket.

Gordon Parks

Author: 
LeeAnne Bulman
Source: 
Groundglass, February, 2004

Imagine being a photojournalist on your first big assignment in Washington D.C. You grab your camera and start walking up and down the streets, looking for things to shoot, checking out different locations for possible action. The excitement soon turns to disappointment. This is the 40s, and you are black. You are not welcome.

Christopher Burkett

Author: 
LeeAnne Bulman
Source: 
Groundglass, March 2004

On the fourth day of creation, God said "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens . . . to give light on earth." And photographers are grateful for that light, especially Christopher Burkett.

Martin and Osa Johnson

Author: 
LeeAnne Bulman
Source: 
Groundglass, December 2003

Ever wonder what photographer meat tastes like? The world almost found out in 1917 on Malekula Island when Martin and Osa Johnson started on their first of many photographic adventures. They went to shoot pictures of natives who decided Martin and Osa looked good enough to eat. Fortunately, for them and the world of photography, a British patrol boat came by and rescued the couple. A year later they returned to the same place and the same tribe and played back the film for the would be cannibals, who were impressed.

H. H. Bennett - Pioneer Photographer

Author: 
LeeAnne Bulman
Source: 
Groundglass, November 2003

(Tom Pahs talked about this at the September meeting and suggested members take a visit. Here is a more detailed account.)

The man who did the most to put Kilbourn City, now known as Wisconsin Dells, on the map was a little known pioneer photographer named Henry Hamilton Bennett. He did not intend on being a photographer, but came upon his vocation through an accident.