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The Film Photography Handbook
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The Film Photography Handbook

by Chris Marquardt, Monika Andrae
February 2016
Beginner to intermediate
280 pages
6h 47m
English
Rocky Nook
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Exposure

Photography without light is like fishing without water—relatively pointless.

Light sources emit visible and invisible rays, and objects reflect a percentage of these rays back. A specially shaped piece of glass bundles parts of this light and projects an image onto grains of silver salts, triggering a chemical process that causes them to change and turn black in the exposed areas.

Without light, we would not be able to take photos. Light is technically necessary, but can also be used creatively. Light has direction, intensity, and color temperature. It can be emitted by a point or area source of light.

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