in making a picture is a camera lens. The lens is an image-forming device on a camera. If an object is far away use a higher mm lens such as 1000mm. If the object is closer use a smaller mm lens like 10 mm. You also use the lens to focus in the object clearly. The closer the object is, the smaller the focus is. The farther away the object is, the bigger the focus is. The next important thing in making a picture is the shutter speed. The shutter is the device on the camera acting as a gate controlling the duration of time that light is allowed to pass through the lens and fall on the film (Doty 76). Shutters help to take pictures of things moving, without and shutter just about every thing you take a picture of would be blurry making a pretty ugly picture. The last important thing is the film. This determines what the picture's color will look like. Oftentimes, a photographer uses black and white film to show emotion, color to show movement. There are hundreds of different kinds of film to show different feeling in each and every photo taken by a camera. These and other factors make professional photography a complex process. III. What his art says. Alfred Stieglitz's involvement in photography dated from 1883, the year he purchased a camera and enrolled in a photochemistry course, to the year he died in 1946. When Stieglitz returned to America from England, he found that photography, as he understood it, hardly existed. An instrument had been put on the market shortly before, called Kodak. The slogan sent out to ...
