Definition

This is a short and sweet definition I came across about composure and exposure.

Compose: This is the creative or artistic bit where you arrange all of the elements of your picture within the frame or viewfinder to produce what should hopefully be a pleasing composition.
Expose: This is the scientific and mechanical bit where you expose your film to light through the lens of your camera and if you are lucky preserve the image for posterity

What is the rule of thirds?

One of the most popular 'rules' in photography is the rule of thirds. It works like this:
Imaginary lines are drawn dividing the image into thirds both horizontally and vertically. Then place important elements of your composition where these lines intersect. The subject is now off center
Using the Rule of Thirds helps produce nicely balanced easy on the eye pictures.

How We Got The News Before TV

I found this interesting on you tube. It's about how important photographs were back when there was no T.V and it was the only source of news to show the rest of the world what's going on. There are some good images shown of documented events.

How to get the correct exposure

To get the “correct exposure” I use the light meterthat’s built into thecamera or a studio light meter. The studio light meter measures the light strength in the area of the photo that will be taken and it  will  give a suitable setting. Using the light meter on the camera I must adjust the shutter speed, aperture and/or ISO.

Grain

Film consists of a layer or layers of emulsion containing light sensitive silver halide crystals coated onto a plastic base.

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After processing the image is made up of lots of clumps of silver from the developed crystals, dyes in the case of colour film, these are referred to as grain.

Grain size is directly related to film speed. Slow films have a finer grain structure than fast films.

Proposal

I find mind mapping a great way to help me create stories for my images. I am working on my proposal at the moment, this is where I must product 4 - 8 prints from processed in the darkroom, that tell a story. At first I had no idea what I was going to shoot, where, when, how but when I stopped panicing I done a mind map and came up with 2 stories "behind the scenes" or "gofler." I have choosen to shoot behind the scenes, I think it would be interesting to work with the stage lights etc...

How to id camera shake.

If the subject movement appears as blurring in the image it will only affect the part or parts that actually move during exposure while camera shake will affect the whole image to the same degree.