Photography

For my creative topic, I decided to research about photography. Photography has always interested me, even at a young age, especially nature photography and sports photography. Nature photography is extremely fascinating to me because of the pictures with mountains, oceans, sunsets and sunrises, and many more and it would be very cool to be a nature photographer because you would be able to travel around the world. Sports pictures are the most interesting pictures to me because of the excitement in some of them, like a Michael Jordan dunk in basketball, or a goal-line touchdown run in football. I chose this topic because I wanted to learn more about sports and nature photography, the camera itself, and photographers in general.

An article by Rob Miracle in June of 1999 says sports photography has three main factors that make a good breathtaking sports photo. The three categories are location, the decisive moment, and the required equipment. Obviously, location is extremely important in taking a photo, as you want to be a close to the action in possible so that means on the sideline if you are a photographer, or a good seat if you are a fan. Timing is extremely important in capturing an epic sports photo as you have to be at the right place at the right time and anticipate it before it happens. Rob Miracle said that if “you see the action, you missed it.” He says you have to click the button right before it actually happens, because the mirror has time to flip out of the way and the shutter open and close. For sports photography, most photographers use a 35mm camera with the length of their lens varying from the location they are located in. Rob Miracle says that for every 100mm in a lens, you get about 10 yards of zoom. Also, lens speed is extremely important because it makes the timing much easier to capture because you can take pictures of the action faster.

            

            An article by Tom Harris talks about the three basics behind a still frame camera that photographers use to capture a picture. The three aspects of a camera are an optical element, which is the lens, a chemical element, which is the film and a mechanical element, which is the camera body itself. The job of the lens is to take the beams of light bouncing off of an object and redirect them so they come together to form an image that just occurred. I have always been interested in sports photography, but after reading the two articles by Miracle and Harris, I am much more intrigued by photography after reading about the three basis of taking a good picture and the three aspects of a working camera.

Works Cited

·      Harris, Tom. "How Cameras Work." HowStuffWorks. 07 Apr. 2014 <http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/camera.htm>.

·        Miracle, Rob. "Sports Photography." Sport Photos: A how-to and tip guide from Photo.net. June 1999. 07 Apr. 2014 <http://photo.net/learn/sports/overview>.