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Hands of Emotion
Emotional photographs draw viewers in, instantly building a connection. It is a true gift to be able to capture the emotion in a photograph. Photojournalists create emotional photo stories everyday. So what makes a photograph emotional? It is simple; any photograph that causes a reaction is emotion. Emotions are the feelings that are generated when a person is viewing a photograph. They can be joyful, sorrow, love, hate, fear, intrigue etc.
How do you draw out emotions with your photographs?
Research
First, plan your photograph. What is the story you are going to tell? What is the subject that will be in the photograph? Find out as much as you can about the subject, if it is a person learn the story about the person and then plan the photo around what you know about them.
Composition
Composition is really where your artistic expression can be felt and what drives the emotions felt by viewers. It is the relationship of the elements within the frame. The composition of the photo is where your audience can see the image how you want them to see it. Check out our Tips and Project Center for great tips on to compose your photographs
Experiment
When I was in school for photography the first lesson they taught us was, film is cheap, shoot a lot. Well now with digital cameras there is no reason not to just keep shooting! Put the camera into a continuous shooting mode and see what happens, it is truly an experiment.
Just plain luck!
Let's be honest, some times the best photograph happens because you are in the right place at the right time. Since you never know when that may happen always be prepared with a camera in hand!
Take a minute, and enjoy the images on our homepage. Do they draw out any emotions? Tell us how, leave us a comment!
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Old and New
By: Myra Meko
I used my daughter's camera to snap this picture of my nephew's hand grabbing my mother's.
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Priorities Change
By: Norma Warden
This is my brand new grandson, Cash, in his Daddy's arms. He is my first grandchild, and was born 5 weeks early. He is home now and doing well. I literally watched the transformation in his Daddy's eyes, as he realized this little person was the most important thing in his life. He was amazed at the depth of the love he felt for his son, and I was so happy to have been there to record everything in photographs.
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Sun in My Hand
By: Igor Sivjakov
I love this picture a lot because it is artistic and unusual. The shape of this flower is amazing; it looks like a sun... :) Taken in Bukovik, near Sarajevo, 22-05-2005.
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The Butterfly Effect
By: Abdul Kadir Audah
A butterfly flew to a boy's hands at the Butterfly Garden in ARTIS Zoo in Amsterdam, Holland. I added texture and sepia tone in Adobe Photoshop
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5th Avenue
By: Nicolas Eertmans
I was on vacation in NYC mid-October 2005, and was unlucky to be there during what must have been NYC's rainiest week ever. Still, rain did not prevent me from taking pictures, like this snapshot of an ad across 5th Avenue.
Earth: From a Different Point of View
In celebration of Earth Day, we wanted to share with you a little bit of our history with the Earth - from a different perspective - Space.
Over the past 40+ years Kodak has played an important role in Space Photography. NASA has used Kodak Professional products to capture and transmit some of the most dramatic images taken in space to audiences across the globe. Initially, Kodak made customized cameras for NASA's specialized needs. Once man started taking pictures in space Kodak was commissioned to customize film that could adapt to the dramatic climate changes. In the late 1990s, astronauts quickly adapted to using Kodak digital cameras. Today, Kodak is focusing on the CCD image sensors used in satellites that orbit the Earth, Moon Mars, and Venus.
Lunar Orbiter
In the mid sixties, NASA launched a series of five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft that collectively photographed 99% of the moon's surface in preparation for an Apollo moon landing. Each carried an ingenious photographic system, designed and built by Kodak
This system was designed to be used as an unmanned satellite to take high-resolution pictures of the moon's surface in preparation for an Apollo moon landing. The Lunar Orbiter system took photographs, processed and scanned the film, and converted imagery into a continuous video signal for pickup by Kodak-built receivers on Earth. At that time, it was the most complex instrumentation payload ever launched aboard a spacecraft.
Watch this amazing podcast of Todd Gustavson, curator of Technology from the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, discussing the Lunar Orbiter Camera manufactured by Eastman Kodak. The Lunar Orbiter is now a part of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film Technology Collection. It is really cool to see how the lunar orbiter really worked!!
Photographs of the Lunar Orbiter
Kodak Film in Space
Did you know: John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth, Kodak film recorded his reactions to traveling through space at 17,400 miles per hour.
Kodak was asked by NASA to develop thin new films with special emulsions double-perforated 70mm film, which permitted 160 pictures in color or 200 on black and white.
Apollo 8 was one of the first missions to use this film. There were three magazines loaded with 70 mm wide, perforated Kodak Panatomic-X fine-grained, 80 ASA, b/w film, two with Kodak Ektachrome SO-68, one with Kodak Ektachrome SO-121, and one with super light-sensitive Kodak 2485, 16,000 ASA film - which produced 1100 color, black and white, and filtered photographs from the Apollo 8 mission.
Digital Photography in Space
In the late 1990s Kodak Professional Digital Cameras were used by the astronauts to document their missions. Kodak made improvements to the cameras enabling them to be easy for the astronauts to use in their bulky suits. The astronauts were able to transmit the images back to earth prior to landing. This was considered a great success!
There are still a few of these cameras in use by the astronauts today!
Kodak CCD Image Sensors
Kodak CCD image sensors are used today in satellites that orbit not only the Earth, but Mars and Venus as well. Kodak image sensors were the "eyes" of the Sojourner rover that first explored the surface of Mars in 1997. When NASA returns to the moon with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter later this year, Kodak image sensors will be imaging the surface at 0.5 meters per pixel. And when the Jupiter Orbiter launches in 2011 to take the first 3-color images of Jupiter, you can probably guess which sensors will be used to take the pictures.
What does the future hold? Are the missions of our image sensors a precursor to man landing on a new surface? Will Mars and Venus be the next surfaces man will land on and explore?
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Earth-rise captured by Kodak's lunar module camera, 1966.
Title: First View of Earth from Moon
Date: 08.23.1966
The world's first view of Earth taken by a spacecraft from the vicinity of the Moon.
The photo was transmitted to Earth by the United States Lunar Orbiter I and received at the NASA tracking station at Robledo De Chavela near Madrid, Spain. This crescent of the Earth was photographed August 23, 1966 at 16:35 GMT when the spacecraft was on its 16th orbit and just about to pass behind the Moon.
Image Credit: NASA/courtesy of nasaimages.org
Original URL: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=1757
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Title: Earthrise - Apollo 8
Date: 12.29.1968
This view of the rising Earth greeted the Apollo 8 astronauts as they came from behind the Moon after the lunar orbit insertion burn. Earth is about five degrees above the horizon in the photo. The unnamed surface features in the foreground are near the eastern limb of the Moon as viewed from Earth. The lunar horizon is approximately 780 kilometers from the spacecraft. Width of the photographed area at the horizon is about 175 km (109 miles). On the Earth 386,000 km (240,000 miles) away, the sunset terminator bisects Africa.
Image Credit: NASA/courtesy of nasaimages.org
Original URL: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=1793
Watch the podcast with Todd Gustavson to see how the lunar orbiter captured the above two images.
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For years, astronauts have been photographing with Kodak Digital Cameras. Below are a few of the images captured.
Image courtesy of Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov
Mission: ISS016 Roll: E Frame: 35583 Mission ID on the Film or image: ISS016
Date: April 9, 2008
Camera: E4: Kodak DCS760C Electronic Still Camera
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Title: Ash Plume from Cleveland Volcano
Date: May 23, 2006
Description:
At 3:00 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time on May 23, 2006, Flight Engineer Jeff Williams from International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 13 contacted the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) to report that the Cleveland Volcano had produced a plume of ash. Shortly after the activity began, he took this photograph. This picture shows the ash plume moving west-southwest from the volcano's summit. A bank of fog (upper right) is a common feature around the Aleutian Islands. The event proved to be short-lived; two hours later, the plume had completely detached from the volcano (see image from May 24). The AVO reported that the ash cloud height could have been as high as 6,000 meters (20,000 feet) above sea level.
Cleveland Volcano, situated on the western half of Chuginadak Island, is one of the most active of the volcanoes in the Aleutian Islands, which extend west-southwest from the Alaska mainland. It is a stratovolcano, composed of alternating layers of hardened lava, compacted volcanic ash, and volcanic rocks. At a summit elevation of 1,730 meters, this volcano is the highest in the Islands of the Four Mountains group. Carlisle Island to the north-northwest, another stratovolcano, is also part of this group. Magma that feeds eruptions of ash and lava from the Cleveland Volcano is generated by the northwestward movement of the Pacific Plate beneath the North American Plate. As one tectonic plate moves beneath another—a process called subduction—melting of materials above and within the lower plate produces magma that can eventually move to the surface and erupt through a vent (such as a volcano). Cleveland Volcano claimed the only known eruption-related fatality in the Aleutian Islands, in 1944.
Image Credit:
Astronaut photograph ISS013-E-24184 was acquired May 23, 2006, with a Kodak 760C Digital Camera using an 800 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Group, Johnson Space Center. The image in this article has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast. Lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.
Original URL:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=16689&oldid=13597
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Image courtesy of Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov
Mission: ISS010 Roll: E Frame: 8497 Mission ID on the Film or image: ISS010
Camera: E4: Kodak DCS760C Electronic Still Camera
Caption:
ISS010-E-08497 (24 November 2004) - This picture, apparently the first verifiable photo of the Great Wall of China made from low Earth orbit, was taken by International Space Station Commander Leroy Chiao on Nov. 24, 2004.
Additional Resources:
There is a tremendous amount of photographs taken from Space. Visit the following web sites to view other photographs.
A special thank you to Michael DeLuca, our very own expert on everything space! Read all of Michael's blog posts.
http://michaeldeluca.pluggedin.kodak.com/
Just in case you missed this above...
Watch this amazing podcast of Todd Gustavson, curator of Technology from the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, discussing the Lunar Orbiter Camera manufactured by Eastman Kodak. The Lunar Orbiter is now a part of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film Technology Collection.
Night Photography
Getting Started:
- Plan your escapade - scope out the area you would like to photograph. Notice what the conditions are like. Is there a place to set up your camera? Investigate different view points. Try different times as well, just as the sun is going down, when it is really dark out, when there is a full moon vs. no moon.
- Turn off your flash. Capture the lights of the night, stars in the sky to the cars flying by. When you do turn off the flash the exposure time will increase - you will definitely need to use a tripod or a solid surface!
Experiment with Your Camera Settings:
- Using a high ISO will allow more light in resulting in a shorter exposure time. A high ISO is perfect when trying to capture lightning or an image where you do not want a lot of movement.
- Using a lower ISO allows the shutter to stay open longer; use this to capture all the movement with car lights. Take multiple pictures at different ISOs to see the difference.
- Night scene mode - To compensate for the lack of light, Night Mode uses a longer exposure to catch all the subtle warm and cool colors that come with an intriguing night shot.
- Be careful with optical zoom it may cause camera shake in the picture. If you can use a release cable or a timer on the camera that will help decrease any movement when pushing the button.
Interesting Subjects for Night Photography
Here are just a few ideas for subjects at night:
- Neon lights
- Streaking cars
- City lights
- Bridges
- Full moon
- Lighting
Things to Remember:
- Take lots of pictures
- Be creative: blurry movement is ok, try different angles,
- Have fun!
This week on our homepage we are featuring a variety of photographs that were captured at night. Enjoy the nighttime photographs!
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Belgian Night
Photographer: Jennifer Woodward
Taken in Brugges, Belgium on a cool night in Sept 2007. We walked back to our room a different way and stumbled on this scene off a side street. I wonder how many thousands of travelers and residents have paused at this same spot.
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42nd Street
Photographer: Broddi Sigurdarson
I wanted to look at an often photographed subject and try to get a look that's a little bit out of the ordinary, while also getting a sense of the bright lights of the big city.
This was shot using an ND filter, which allowed me to increase the exposure to 77 seconds and capture more car lights. The idea was to convey a sense of busy New York City streets.
Taken in New York City, March 2008
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Wonderful Night
Photographer: Brandon Soh
Taken on New Years Eve, together with my lovely wife at Esplanade Theaters of Singapore. Both of us have wonderful memories of that night.
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Vegas Storm
Photographer: Ed Puskas
Taken from the top of the Voodoo Lounge rooftop in Vegas.
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Midway Night Lights
Photographer: Cynthia Bates
This was one of the first long exposure shots I had ever taken and was amazed at how well it turned out for my first time! The picture was taken at the 2005 Texas State Fair - Oct 2005. I chose Holiday and Events as my category - because it is a yearly event in the state of Texas.
Introducing KODAK eyeCamera 4.1. It's Amazing!
This is the kind of breakthrough idea that makes us wonder why we didn't come up with it sooner.
Here is the full scoop on this feature-rich, eye popper...
"What you see is what you get" Viewfinder - Now you can take that photo at the exact moment you see that special scene. Don't try this while driving as objects may be closer than they appear.
Facial Recall Assistant - We have all been there...you are at a party, "I know her. Oh, geesh, she is coming this way...Hello, er, um..." How embarassing. Well, worry no more. This handy feature connects to a customizable "BFF file" connected to your Facebook page. Go to parties and reunions with confidence! Hello Marci, long time no see! Like my stylin' new specs?
Image Stabilizer - After a glass of wine or two, this feature will ensure that all of your photos are razor sharp, maybe even sharper than you remember. Our patented "I love you man Gyro Adjuster" was tested at numerous focus groups and it worked perfectly...I think.
Isn't the design captivating? Our engineers worked very hard to come up with a look that is hardly noticeable from regular eye glasses. Fashionistas everywhere will be clamoring for this accessory to wear at red-carpet events. Okay, back to the features...
Selective Auto-Focus & Zoom - See something you like? Just look, focus, zoom & snap! This is a new feature so use it wisely. It might get you in trouble at the beach so practice at home first.
Wink and Shoot Shutter - Taking photos is now as easy as a winking! We use our patented eyeVu technology to activate only on a wink, not a blink. When you have a cold and are sneezing it is advised you not wear your KODAK eyeCamera 4.1 or you will get pictures of your feet (think about it).
Digital X-Ray Vision - No way? Yes way! In partnership with the Superman Corporation located in the Fortress of Solitude, we co-developed this amazing feature at a bargain price. But remember, even though you will be able to see through walls and closed doors you will not be able to walk through them.
Panoramic Mode - Achieved merely by employing classic Kodak ease-of-use and turning one's head 360- degrees
The KODAK eyeCamera 4.1 is social media compatible so you will be able to stream your life 24x7! Easy photo uploads to Facebook, Flickr, KODAK Gallery, and Twitter are a snap. Now you can impress your friends with an endless stream of photos to accompany the running commentary of text updates you currently provide.
But wait, there's more! The KODAK eyeCamera 4.1 comes with a ton of cool accessories too.
- Super zoom. Oh baby! If standard zoom isn't enough we have the answer (comes with neck brace).
- Lens lashes - Available in natural, bat, and flirt lengths
- Baseball cap printer. For prints on the go. The cap's bill is the paper tray! Clever.
- Dual lens steroscopic option lets you take photos in 3-D
- Flash earrings. Genuine CZ (cubic zirconia) rechargeable flash with unmatched cut, clarity, color, and coruscation (look it up ;-)
