The camera or camera obscura is the image-forming device, and photographic film or a silicon electronic image sensor is the sensing medium. The respective recording medium can be the film itself, or a digital electronic or magnetic memory. Any way you approach it Photography is fun and you can learn a lot about angles and composition from viewing other photographer's work. The links on this page will expose your third eye to all the tricks and skills of the professionals by allowing you to view the end results of their labors. You will see beauty and detail as captured by the best camera jockeys in the world and your idea of what makes a great photograph will be forever enhanced.

All photography was originally monochrome, or Black and White . Even after Color film was readily available, black-and-white photography continued to dominate for decades, due to its lower cost and its "classic" photographic look. In modern times, black-and-white has mostly become a minority art form, and most photography has become color photography.

Some interesting formats are Hand Colored, Sepia Tone and Tinted.

Specific topics and subjects to study, Animals - Architecture - Erotic -
Figurative - History - Humor - Landscape - Object - Panoramic -
Sports and Transportation.

Camera controls are inter-related, the total amount of light reaching the film plane (the "exposure") changes with the duration of exposure, aperture of the lens, and focal length of the lens (which changes as the lens is zoomed). Changing any of these controls alters the exposure. Many cameras may be set to adjust most or all of these controls automatically. This automatic functionality is useful in many situations, and in most situations to occasional photographers. View the Associated Press or
Daily Mirror Collections to see how light and duration of exposure figure into the finished product. See also the Library of Congress collection.

The duration of an exposure is referred to as shutter speed, often even in cameras that don't have a physical shutter, and is typically measured in fractions of a second. Aperture is expressed by an f-number or f-stop (derived from focal ratio), which is proportional to the ratio of the focal length to the diameter of the aperture. If the f-number is decreased by a factor of the square root of 2, the aperture diameter is increased by the same factor, and its area is increased by a factor of 2. The f-stops that might be found on a typical lens include 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22, 32, where going up "one stop" (using lower f-stop numbers) doubles the amount of light reaching the film, and stopping down one stop halves the amount of light. View Oxford-Scientific, National-Geographic or Danita-Delimont Collections. See also Garden-Picture-Library or Index-Stock images.

Exposures can be achieved through various combinations of shutter speed and aperture. For example, f/8 at 1/125th of a second and f/4 at 1/500th of a second yield the same amount of light. The chosen combination has an impact on the final result. In addition to the subject or camera movement that might vary depending on the shutter speed, the aperture (and focal length of the lens) determine the depth of field, which refers to the range of distances from the lens that will be in focus. For example, using a long lens and a large aperture (f/2.8, for example), a subject's eyes might be in sharp focus, but not the tip of the nose. With a smaller aperture (f/22), or a shorter lens, both the subject's eyes and nose can be in focus. With very small apertures, such as pinholes, a wide range of distance can be brought into focus. Visit Serac-Adventure-Films or Superstock-Photography Collections.

Image capture is only part of the image forming process. Regardless of material, some process must be employed to render the latent image captured by the camera into the final photographic work. This process consists of two steps, development, and printing. During the printing process, modifications can be made to the print by several controls. Many of these controls are similar to controls during image capture,
while some are exclusive to the printing process.

For some out of the world images visit Jupiter-Images or Lonely-Planet
Collections. Have fun and make some memories.

Can you tell the gender of the photographer by the work? I have no idea but here are some Female Photographers and their art. See if anything in their style gives away their gender. View Sondra Wampler, Pamela Williams or Maureen Love.

Berenice Abbott
(July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991), was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the 1930s. Abbott was part of the straight photography movement, which stressed the importance of photographs being unmanipulated in both subject matter and developing processes. Throughout her career, Abbott's photography was very much a display of the rise in development in technology and society. Her works documented and praised the New York landscape. This was all guided by her belief that a modern day invention such as the camera deserved to document the 20th century.
Margaret Bourke White
June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971, was an American photographer and photojournalist. In 1929, she accepted a job as associate editor of Fortune magazine. In 1930, she became the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union. She was hired by Henry Luce as the first female photojournalist for Life magazine. Bourke-White was the first female war correspondent and the first woman to be allowed to work in combat zones during World War II. In 1941, she traveled to the Soviet Union just as Germany broke its pact of non-aggression. She was the only foreign photographer in Moscow when German forces invaded. Taking refuge in the U.S. Embassy, she then captured the ensuing firestorms on camera.

Linda Mccartney Wife of Beatle Paul Mccartney and well known and respected photographer.
See Also Amy Melious, Inge Morath and Christine Triebert.