Speech on Photography

MUTUC

Photography

Hello everyone! My name is Jean Thor Renzo Mutπuc, but you can call me Renzo. Today, I will talk about what I’ve loved doing for the past years, Photography. In my talk today, I will speak about photography in general and the history of Photography. Also, I will give composition techniques, which you can utilize as you take pictures with your smart phones and I’ll show some of my works by the end of my speech.

I believe that it would be best to start off by defining some of the terminologies that I will be using so that all of us will be on the same page.

Let’s start with my main topic today… Photography.

What is Photography?

According to Stuart Russell of the Urban Times

Photography is a term derived from the Greek words photos ("light") and graphos ("to paint or to draw"). It is a method of recording images by the action of light.

Next is composition. It refers to the arrangement of objects, shapes, and patterns in your photograph. This shows the viewer your personal view of the subject.

One last essential term for my talk today is the rule of thirds. It is a fundamental composition principle that most photographers are familiar with.

The rule of thirds is applied by aligning a subject with the guidelines or allowing linear features in the image to flow from section to another.

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Those are just few terms in photography. I assure you that there is still more but we won’t dwell on that. Instead, what I want to share with you all is a brief history of photography.

History

According to an online article from the School Curriculum in Photography, in 1827, Joseph Niepce (Joseph Nieps) made the first photographic image with a camera obscura. Prior to photo taking, people just used the camera obscura for viewing purposes.

However, Niepce’s photograph required eight hours of light exposure to create and after appearing, it would soon fade away.

Louis Daguerre (Loui Dagerr) was also experimenting with photography trying to find ways to keep the image from disappearing. To do this it took him another few years, but eventually he managed and was also able to reduce exposure time to less than 30 minutes.

Daguerre and Niepce eventually joined forces to further improve the photography process.

In 1839 after several years of experimentation, Daguerre developed a more convenient and effective method of photography, naming it after himself - the daguerreotype.