Photograph
Summary
A photograph (often shortened ffuguto photo) is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see. The process and practice of creating photographs is called photography. The word "photograph" was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φῶς (phos) "light" and γραφή (graph) "representation by means of lines" or "drawing", together meaning "drawing with light".The first permanent photograph was made in 1822 by a French inventor, Joseph Nicphore Nipce, building on a discovery by Johann Heinrich Schultz (1724): that a silver and chalk mixture darkens under exposure to light.
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Biden’s office forces reporter to delete photos, apologizes
Capital News Service A staffer for Vice President Joe Biden demanded that a reporter delete photos he’d taken at an event in Rockville, Md. , Tuesday. The vice president’s office later apologized to University of Maryland J-school Dean Lucy Dalglish after … Read more.
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App of the week for journalists: Beamr, for sending photos
Beamr is an iPhone app that reduces the file size of photos without affecting the quality, allowing you to send a batch of images quickly and efficiently.
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Businessweek features ‘erasable’ cover about Snapchat
Businessweek. Underwear. Two words that previously were strangers. Until this week’s cover story about the photo app Snapchat, which lets people send one another disappearing photos. Guess what it’s mostly used for.
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Use of generic photos can be dangerous for illustrating news stories
Maybe you have a Web CMS that requires an image to be associated with some stories. Maybe you just need some kind of image, any image, to color an otherwise gray slate of text.
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Who Really Owns Your Photos in Social Media? (Updated 2013 Edition)
A recent U. S. court decision clarified that media organizations cannot assume that photos shared via Twitter are rights-free, to be used as though they were in the public domain. In the case of Agence France-Presse (AFP) v. Morel, U. S. District Judge Alison Nathan ruled in favor of freelance photographer Daniel Morel.
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Spanish newspaper withdraws 'fake photo' of Hugo Chávez
El País apologises over photo published online and in print, and says it has launched investigation.
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Photographer, trooper from Klan rally image meet
Athens Banner-Herald | Gainesville Times Former Georgia state trooper Allen Campbell met Tuesday with Todd Robertson, who photographed a child in a Ku Klux Klan robe looking at Campbell two decades ago.
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Instagram being pushed in the charts by EyeEm
Instagram is the darling of tech, and the king of all photo apps. It made its founders millions of dollars, and made each of us into top artistic photographers with just our iPhone.
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Why BuzzFeed’s photo spat with Reddit could be just the tip of the iceberg
BuzzFeed’s impressive growth — capped off by a recent $15. 5-million venture-financing round — is a testament to the site’s ability to find and package “viral” content on a range of topics, from heartwarming photos of charitable acts to a collection of cookie jars shaped like dogs. But a blowup with the online community Reddit over the ownership of some of the pictures that BuzzFeed used in a recent post has reignited a debate over the way the site uses such images.
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Polaroid to launch photo stores…to print your Instagram photos
Are tangible photographs on the way back? Polaroid seems to think so. The firm was once the king of popular photography, with its instant camera achieving iconic status, and arguably helped the rise of Instagram. While the photo app has gone onto achieve great success Polaroid is a shadow of its former self.
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