Introduction to Digital Photography
History of the camera
A course by Jesús G. Pastor , Photographer
About the video: History of the camera
Overview
“Is not it amazing that in less than 200 years photography was born and grew until it reaches the current daily omnipresence? Here we will see how we got from the camera obscura and the daguerreotype to Instagram. ”
In this video lesson Jesús G. Pastor addresses the topic: History of the camera, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Digital Photography. Learn to control the basic parameters of your reflex camera.
Partial transcription of the video
“Camera history The first camera of which we have proof it's the eye and the eye has several hundred million years of existence. It's that little device, that little organ that we have many living beings that allows us to see the world, interpret its colors, movements, predators, prey, Everything, a little, what's on the planet. See it, transmit it to the brain and based on that react and run or swim, whatever, right? So, from the eye we pass to the dark chamber, that would be a very old discovery and that was basically, as you see here in the image, the first or one of the first dark camera...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Digital Photography
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Jesús G. Pastor
A course by Jesús G. Pastor
The path of Jesús G. Pastor, a journalist by training, led him little by little towards images, always with a connection to social assistance. As an inveterate traveler, he spent two uninterrupted years in Asia, in addition to a month or more in Lebanon, Syria, Mexico, and Cuba, and two years living in the Balkans in the former Yugoslavia. It was during his travels that Jesús developed his photographic style.
Currently, he is a professor in a higher-level vocational training degree in Image and Sound. He has taught corporate communication workshops for Amnesty International and on travel photography, authorial photography, and digital retouching (especially Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw).
He has been published in national press (La Vanguardia, Público, Metro, Avui, Interviu, Periodismo Humano, The Huffington Post) and internationally (Travel Africa Magazine, Sunday Times, Corbis, Demotix, ACNUR), has worked for companies and NGOs, and has won awards for his work at a waste disposal site in Phnom Phen.
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