World of Film and Photo

Candid Photography: Taking Pictures Of Your Friend Without Their Attention Candid photography is by definition taking pictures of people when they are unaware. Part of the fun in photography is catching your human subjectís off guard so that your pictures have more emotion. Photographers who work for magazines, like Time Life, have been able to get candid shots of their subjects. I think most of us can remember the black and white photographs of Africans and others giving rise to more emotion from the viewer. Taking candid shots may appear easy although there are few techniques in the photography world...

Candid Photography: Taking Pictures Of Your Friend Without Their Attention Candid photography is by definition taking pictures of people when they are unaware. Part of the fun in photography is catching your human subjectís off guard so that your pictures have more emotion. Photographers who work for magazines, like Time Life, have been able to get candid shots of their subjects. I think most of us can remember the black and white photographs of Africans and others giving rise to more emotion from the viewer. Taking candid shots may appear easy although there are few techniques in the photography world...

  “What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.” —George Eastman George Eastman Biography (1854–1932) George Eastman invented the Kodak camera, helping make photography accessible to the public. His company remains one of the largest in the industry. Who Was George Eastman? George Eastman was born on July 12, 1854, in Waterville, New York. In 1880, he opened the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company. His first camera, the Kodak, was sold in 1888 and consisted of a box camera with 100 exposures. Later he offered the...