Different Kinds of Photography
Photography refers to a process of capturing still images or moving images. This form of photography can be used for several purposes ranging from commerce, science, art and pleasure.
In the beginning, its use was popular among the scientists for capturing pictures for recording experiments on different subjects or for studies and researches. Gradually artists realized its importance or significance. The interest of artists gave birth to the movement of ‘Pictorialist’ movement in 1885s. This movement laid stress on the idea that the artistic picture making needs to emulate the art of the time. This movement emphasized on the photographer portraying personal expression or impression of the surroundings in an artistic form. As the world modernized and started introducing innovations and inventions in all sorts of professional fields, picture making field did not remain untouched. The field of commerce and trade found potential in picture making. The businesspersons employed the form in order to promote their goods and services.
Yoga and Photography: Combining Science and Art
Yoga is known as a practice originally performed by the Indians to attain physical improvement and spiritual perfection. It includes meditation to attain mental tranquility and eccentric body formations to achieve better health. In the present times, Yoga has been popular among different nations and different races because it is proven to be beneficial to the health. It is also said to cure a number of health problems such as muscle pains, stress, and abdominal problems.
Yoga as an Art
Elements of Photography
Photography may be roughly defined as the art of capturing memorable moments using a camera. Ever since the process of developing and recording photographs was first invented, people have been using the same in various situations for various uses. Its commercial uses include (but are not limited to) advertising for a product or place, preserving historical documents or structures, to preserve the finer details of a crime scene, surveillance, scientific studies etc. The use of photography is only limited by imagination.
The advent of “point and shoot” cameras has made photography very easy for most people. However, for professional photographers there is more to a picture than just simply pressing a button. This is where photography becomes an art and a science at the same time. Terms like Exposure (the amount of light entering the camera or the duration of time the camera stays open), Shutter speed, Focus (focusing on the subject), White Balance (a compensation mechanism for adjusting the color temperature on photographs), Metering (a mechanism by which light areas and dark areas in photographs may be clearly represented), Aperture (the unit of measure which controls how much area of the lens is exposed to light) etc become the parameters which differentiate an average photograph from an outstanding one.