Hadley Manfredi - Week One

I took this photo at Crandon Park Beach in Key Biscayne, Florida with a Nikon Coolpix camera.  I love the texture of the footprints in the sand and the contrast of the sharp blue and white sky with the color of the sand. I also like that the scene isn't empty but has people and the lifeguard house in the shot.

This photograph is titled Boulevard du Temple.  This photo was taken by Louis Daguerre in 1838 and is apparently the first ever photograph of a person.  The photograph is of a street scene and it is hard to even seen that there is any motion on the street due to the fact that the exposure time had to have been quite long, possibly ten minutes or so, but you can see that there are two men, at what looks to be a shoe shine station, toward the bottom left-hand corner of the photograph.

This is a range-finder camera.  When using a range-finder you never actually look through the lens of the camera but instead you look through a little window and then use a ring to bring 2 images into focus.  Range-finder cameras produce a higher quality image than single-lens reflex cameras especially when it comes to distance and wide-lens photographs.

This is a single-lens reflex camera.  These are the most popular type of camera currently.  A single-lens reflex camera means that there is a mirror that bounces light up from the lens onto the flat glass screen.  You see the image through the lens as a prism like it's in front of you.  SLRs allow you to look through a lens and see exactly what you are taking a picture of and are great for close up shots.