2010年9月29日 星期三

Digital or Analog technology?

        1)What are some photographic effects that can be achieved using digital or analog (darkroom, film, lights etc) technology?
         Some photographic effects can be achieved by using both digital or analog  technology.Colour filtering and Multiple exposure are examples.



2)What are some photographic techniques that can only be done using digital technology?By using computer editing,people can make photos perfect.Take Madonna for example,she hired the professionals to edit every parts of her in the advertisement.She in fact is a middle-aged woman but she looks young and have a perfect figure in the photos by using all kinds of effects from photoshop.Sometimes, we were fooled by this kind of photographic techniques ,and we might think that all female stars have the perfect figures as shown in the advertisements.


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3)What is the difference between analog photography and digital photography?
Nowadays,digital photography has been more popular than analog photography.
Analog photography can be produced in the dark room.And we cannot see the photos right away.It is interesting that someone still like using the analog photography they enjoy the surprises when they finally wait and get the photos.The films are easily to damage,too.We need the skills of using the camera in order to take nice pictures.




Digital photography,however,the photos are saved in the sd card.We can see the photos immediately.
We may not need the skills of using the camera beacause we can edit the photos by using the softwares.

There are different pixels of digital cameras that we can choose. But for traditional cameras, the quality of the photos highly depends on the film.The colours of the photos of digital cameras are sharper. Traditional photography is good for the people who have professional skill.On the other hand, digital photography is more easy to use for most of us.


References:

Foley, James D.; Andries van Dam, John F. Hughes, Steven K. Feiner (1990). "Spatial-partitioning representations; Surface detail". Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice. The Systems Programming Series. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-12110-7. "These cells are often called voxels (volume elements), in analogy to pixels."

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  1. Tammy~The example of Madonna is interesting.The use of digital technology is so powerful.Also, I agree that the digital one is user-friendly since people do not need special skills to master the digital camera.Photo can be token easily by the use of modern technology.However, the traditional one also have its strength to remain for taking artistic pictures.

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  2. Penny,I think you have made a good point here. We should appreciate the skills of the photographers who take lots of artistic pictures by using traditional cameras.Their photos are meaningful and of course beautiful.

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