Principles

 of
Photography
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PHOTOGRAPHY, ITS MEANING

 Photography was derived from Greek words, photo which

means light and grapho that means to draw.

 The production of a permanent record of an image by the

combined action of light and chemical processing.
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PHOTOGRAPHY, ITS CONCEPT

 Photography is the production of visible images by using the

action of light on a sensitized material. The word photography
was derived from two Greek terms PHOTO which means light
and GRAPHY which means to write. Thus, literally,
photography means to draw with light.
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PHOTOGRAPHY, ITS PRINCIPLE 

 A photograph is a mechanical result of photography.  To produce a

photograph, light is needed aside from sensitized material (films and
photographic papers). Light radiated or reflected by the subject must
reach the sensitized material while all other lights must be excluded.
The exclusion of all other lights is achieved by placing the sensitized
material inside a light tight box. The light maybe visible or invisible. 

 The effect of light on the sensitized material is not visible in the

formation of images of objects. The effect could be made visible with
the aid of chemical processing of the exposed sensitized material
called development
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Principle involved in Photography

 In photography, the light writes when it strikes minute crystals of

light sensitive surfaces (films and photographic papers), a
mechanical device (camera) and chemical processing (film
development and printing). As a process, photography is the
method of using light to produce identical image of an object that
can be preserved permanently by employing:

1. camera: camera use to regulate, absorb and filter light.

2. film and any sensitized material to record light.