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White chair: Deliberate use of overexposure for aesthetic purposes
White chair: Deliberate use of overexposure for aesthetic purposes
Two similar images, one taken in auto mode (underexposed), the other with manual settings
Two similar images, one taken in auto mode (underexposed), the other with manual settings
Buildings and trees photographed with an autoexposure time of 1/200 s
Buildings and trees photographed with an autoexposure time of 1/200 s
A street view of Taka-Töölö, Helsinki, Finland, during a very sunny winter day. The image has been deliberately overexposed by +1 EV to compensate for
A street view of Taka-Töölö, Helsinki, Finland, during a very sunny winter day. The image has been deliberately overexposed by +1 EV to compensate for the bright sunlight and the exposure time calculated by the camera's program automatic metering is still 1/320 s.
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Photographers at the Chicago Old Town Art Fair in 1968
Photographers at the Chicago Old Town Art Fair in 1968
A camera obscura used for drawing
A camera obscura used for drawing
Earliest known surviving heliographic engraving, 1825, printed from a metal plate made by Nicéphore Niépce. The plate was exposed under an ordinary en
Earliest known surviving heliographic engraving, 1825, printed from a metal plate made by Nicéphore Niépce. The plate was exposed under an ordinary engraving and copied it by photographic means. This was a step towards the first permanent photograph taken with a camera.
View of the Boulevard du Temple, a daguerreotype made by Louis Daguerre in 1838, is generally accepted as the earliest photograph to include people. I
View of the Boulevard du Temple, a daguerreotype made by Louis Daguerre in 1838, is generally accepted as the earliest photograph to include people. It is a view of a busy street, but because the exposure lasted for several minutes the moving traffic left no trace. Only the two men near the bottom left corner, one of them apparently having his boots polished by the other, remained in one place long enough to be visible.