Black And White Photography. By Pranjal Bhatia. Introduction.

Cavell beliefs in movies black-and-white is that you pay attention to the details of the film, which include the storylines, and the content of what it is in the frame, while movies in color can be distracting; it is considered appealing and attractive, but it can take away from the subject matter of the story. Cavell’s states “film has been moving into the modernist environment inhabited for generations by the other major arts” (Cavell 60); he continues to say that “each arts among, had

Photographs have been circling the world for years now . There are many different types of cameras, but only some have changed and revolutionized the world. The history behind them and the history it has captured throughout the years has impacted the world in numerous ways. It is very important to know how certain things like lighting and angle affect the outcome of photographs. To be able to capture a perfect photograph one will have to understand how lighting , angle , third rule affect a photograph. Not only are there different types of ways to take photographs but different types of photography.

     While the film is in color, sometimes it appears to be in black and white. There are no bright colors in the film. Most of the colors are either browns, beiges, whites, blacks, and grays, so that even when the characters are outside or in daylight, there are contrasts between lights and darks. For example, at the beginning Mr. Gettes is seated in a somewhat dark office, yet he is wearing an all-white suit. Later, when he goes to examine the dried up river bed, his black suit contrasts with the bright sunlight and light colored sand.

As we all know, color is the voice for the artist 's sentiment. It makes up the appearance of a picture. Color is the decisive factor in depths of the two-dimensional plane of the artwork, making the viewer feel physically and mentally attracted, or the context of things - the phenomenon the author wants to present. Colors have been around for a long time, but there is not a common definition for colors. And perhaps humans are one of the luckiest creatures that can identify colors. Often, the recipient 's eye knows a myriad of colors and colors that always change based on the relationship between light and perspective. In art, color creates a sense of

And examples like these is what made the use of Technicolor in The Wizard of Oz so incredible. Filmmakers, actors, and film lovers across different spectrums were being exposed to how Technicolor made certain scenes in films come alive. The use of vivid color added artistic value to cinema. Color also represented many different vivid ideas and thoughts. And color was an important aspect in The Wizard of Oz. imagine if the yellow brick road was a plain gray or if the Emerald City never sparkle with mystifying colors of green. We would have experience a completely different Wizard of Oz.

Film photography is in my opinion, more of a sense of occasion, just the feel of having to cock the mechanism, and wind the film as you start your shooting and as you finish, always being gentle with the fragile delicate black tape, and once the photos taken there’s nothing you can do to edit it within reason, when developing the shots, it is a laborious task to take time and get all the correct chemicals. Film is ultimately higher in resolution than digital. So, for making very large scale prints, film currently can’t be beaten. This is specifically true for photos which have a lot of texture that needs to be preserved, such as landscapes. The dynamic range of film, which is its ingenuity to retain details in low light and areas of highlights, is greater. Also, it is much more merciful of overexposure and will not blow out the highlights nearly as much as digital will. While this is essentially idiosyncratic, some photographers and myself, we believe that film is a more “original and authentic” form of photography. However, the same line of thinking was protuberant in the antecedent

Minor White is one of my favorite photographers. I was intrigued and inspired the first time I looked at his photographs. The first images I laid my eyes on were some of his infrared images and I fell in love. White’s landscape photographs have a large death of field and I believe that helps draw you into his images.His abstract work is very interesting since you never really can tell what White was actually photographing. It draws you in because it makes you curious and want to inspect the image further for a meaning. He was a very technical photographer which I love because I am very technical myself. His attention to detail when he printing his images are remarkable. The contrast in his images remind me of Ansel Adams. They have bright whites,

In literature color is often used to create a mood within the story. Within the two mediums I picked. The Book Thief and A Single Man. Zusak and Ford utilize color to represent emotions and feelings in a character. More specifically, they focus on darkness to further accentuate the main characters’. George and Liesel. struggles with death and trauma. George and Liesel both experience traumatic deaths in their lives; however, Liesel finds a way to overcome this trauma without letting it define her, while George lets it fester and remains lost in mourning.

I recently took a photography class at my high school. I enjoyed taking photos with my phone and camera. However, I have grown a love for film photos. Initially, I was

Color in films has been around since the early 1900s, though we did not see films being mass produced in color until much later. In 1915 “Technicolor was formed as a corporation”, but it wasn’t until around the 1940s that we started to see “greater use” of color in films (Vacche, 13-17). During this rise of color films, you tended to only see certain genres of films were done in color. Period pieces and musicals were the two genres that were most known for their use of color during this time. Then in the 1950’s the development of “Eastmancolor, a one strip color negative process,” we saw more and more films being done in color (Bitoun). Before the development of Eastmancolor, the process that had to be done to make a film in color was too costly. In the 1930s “color added about 30% to the average production cost of a film” (Bitoun), causing studios to have to pick and choose what movies were going to be made in color. Eastmancolor helped lower those cost, making it much more affordable for filmmakers to make films in color. This lead to filmmakers being able to make more films in color and began to start using color to their advantage.

The name "Photography" comes from the Greek words for light and writing. Sir John Herschel, was the first to use the term photography in 1839, when he managed to fix images using hyposulphite of soda. He described photography as "The application of the chemical rays to the purpose of pictorial representation". Herschel also coined the terms "negative", "positive" and "snapshot".

Lastly, a huge component to a photograph that aids in arousing emotion is color, bringing out different emotions whether color is present or not.

No matter who a person thinks invented the motion picture camera, whether it was Louis Lumiere or Thomas Edison, I'm sure they had no idea what it would become at the turn of the century. Motion pictures, has become an entertainment medium like no other. From Fred Ott's Sneeze to Psycho to Being John Malkovich, the evolution from moving pictures to a pure art form has been quite amazing. Different steps in filming techniques define eras in one of the most amazing ideas that was ever composed. Silent to Sound. Short to long. Black and white to color. Analog to Digital. All were important marks in the History of Motion Pictures. "It's different than other arts. It had to be invented"

Until recently, at least, it was possible to define photography as a process involving optics, light sensitive material and the chemical processing of this material to produce prints or slides. Today though, that definition is subject to change. Technological innovations…are shifting photography from its original chemical basis towards electronics… It is not overstating it to say that the advent of this new technology is changing the very nature of photography, as we have known it. (Bode and Wombell 1991)

The cinematographic camera industry emerged in fact more than 100 years ago, it was only until recently that significant digital changes took place, apart from minimal technological improvements. Before the invention of digital cameras the main medium for shooting a movie was on celluloid film in which the quality of the image was very high from the beginning. However these cameras had some inconveniences. The cinematographer would have to set the lighting and frame to the directors vision and make sure that it was right. He could not see immediately if the scene was shot as desired and this caused the workflow to be very complex and time consuming which most producers would see limited. The developing, processing, transferring, editing and conforming the film normally took a day and the director along with the cinematographer would sit