List of basic photography topics
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Photography is the process of making pictures by means of the action of capturing light on a film. Light patterns reflected or emitted from objects are recorded onto a sensitive medium or storage chip through a timed exposure. The process is done through mechanical, chemical or digital devices known as cameras.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to photography:
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[edit] Essence of photography
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[edit] Photography techniques
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[edit] Basic photography concepts
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- Daguerreotype to Digital: A Brief History of the Photographic Process From the State Library & Archives of Florida.
- Judging the authenticity of Photographs: 1800s to Today Guide for collectors and historians
- Rarities of the USSR photochronicles Pioneers of Soviet Photography.
- "Every Picture Has a Story" - uses pictures from the Smithsonian's collections to show the development of the technology through the nineteenth century.
- Shades of Light (Australian Photography 1839 - 1988) the online version of the original Shades of Light published 1998, Gael Newton, National Gallery of Australia.
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