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Photography Training Program (PTP)

Notre Dame Nature Study Club (NDNSC)

Assignment

Topic : Lecture of Previous Class (Class 1)

Previous Class Date : 22/07/2016 (Friday)

Submitted by : Md. Nafees Rahman Chowdhury

College Roll : 11814141
PTP Roll : 16PTP02
Submission Date : 29/07/2016 (Friday)
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Introduction to Notre Dame Nature Study Club

(NDNSC) and Photography Training Program (PTP) :

NDNSC, being one of the most organized clubs of the institution gives
us the opportunity to acquire the very basic knowledge in different
fields through its training programs. One of such training program is
Photography Training Program (PTP) which allows us to acknowledge
the very basics of the photography field.

PTP is such a platform which allows the students to have a clear idea
about the fundamental aspects of photography. As a result, starting
from the history of photography to the scientific advancement of it, all
will be discussed here in this program.

Literal Meaning of Photography : Photography is a word

derived from the Greek words ‘photos’ (light) and ‘graphein’ (to draw).

History of Photography (as per the description of

previous class) :

Pin Hole Camera : Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham), a great authority on

optics in the Middle Ages who lived around 1000AD, invented the
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first pinhole camera, (also called the Camera Obscura} and was
able to explain why the images were upside down.

A pinhole camera, a variation of Camera obscura, is a

simple camera without a lens and with a single small aperture,
a pinhole – effectively a light-proof box with a small hole in one
side. Light from a scene passes through this single point and
projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box.

Fig : Image formation of a pinhole camera

Contribution Of Joseph Nicephore Niepce : Joseph Nicephore

Niepce made the first photographic image with a camera obscura
(Pin hole Camera). Prior to Niepce people just used the camera
obscura for viewing or drawing purposes not for making
photographs. However, Niepce's photograph required eight hours
of light exposure to create and after appearing would soon fade
away.
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Box Camera and contribution of George Eastman : George

Eastman's first simple camera in 1888 was a wooden, light-tight
box with a simple lens and shutter that was factory-filled with film,
also known as a box camera.

Polaroid or Instant photos : Polaroid photography was invented

by Edwin Herbart Land . Land was the American inventor and
physicist whose one-step process for developing and printing
photos created instant photography.

First Digital Camera : In 1984, Canon demonstrated

first digital electronic still camera.

Definition Of Photography : If a definite amount of light

for a definite period of time reacts with a definite amount of
chemical substance, then a photo Is created.

It can also be said that, the art or process of producing images

by the action of radiant energy and especially light on a
sensitive surface is called photography.

So it can be said that, main principle of photography

includes the following 3 things :

1) Light
2) Time
3) Chemical Substance

Important features of a photograph :

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A - Art
P - Philosophy
E – Engineering
A picture must have the mentioned features to be considered as
an ideal one. A perfect picture should have an artistic beauty,
philosophical message in a perfectly engineered way.
Things to maintain to click an ideal picture :

S – Shutter
A – Aperture
F – Focus
E – Emulsion (ISO)
Shutter : Shutter actually refers to time.
Aperture : Refers to the amount of light that is to be entered to
the sensor of the lens.
Focus : Refers to clarity.
Emulsion/ISO (International Standard Organization) :
Refers to photosensitivity.
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The Chancellor of Photography of Bangladesh

(বাাংলাদেদের আদলাকচিত্রািার্)য

Manzoor Alam Beg (মঞ্জুর আলম

ববগ)

Manzoor Alam Beg (মমমমম মমম মমম) (1 October 1931 – 26

July 1998) (Rajshahi) was a Bangladeshi photographer. He played a
pioneering role in the modern art of photography movement in
Bangladesh, setting up of the first photographic training centre known
as Begart Institute of Photography (1960) and Bangladesh
Photographic Society (1976) in Dhaka, of which he was the founding
principal and former president. He was well known for organizing
photographers and photographic activities in a place that had
practically no recent history of institutional or professional
photography. Manzoor Alam Beg was honored as ESFIAP at the FIAP
(the distinction "Excellence for Services Rendered" is awarded to
those persons who have accomplished exceptional services over a
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long period for the benefit of The International Federation of
Photographic Art) 19th Congress in Germany, 1987. He was honored
with a title Aalokchitracharjo (The Chancellor of Photography) by BPS
on behalf of Bangladeshi photographers community. He is considered
as the Father of Fine Art Photography Movements in Bangladesh. He
received photographic training at the Technical Training Centre of the
Pakistan Air Force in Karachi (1949). UNESCO training on
microfilming in Karachi (1957). British government training on
document reproduction at Hatfield College of Technology in UK
(1968). Kodak Colour Film course at Kodak Photographic School at
Harrow in London (1968). Diploma in photography from the British
Institute of Reprographic Technology (1976). A training course for
information centre managers organised by UNESCO and the
Government of India in New Delhi (1980). Aalokchitracharjo (The
Chancellor of Photography) Manzoor Alam Beg has been awarded the
most prestigious Ekushey Podak given by Bangladesh government in
2007 besides 200 more national and international awards and honors.

Daddy Of Photography Of Bangladesh :

Golam Kashem Daddy (বগালাম কাদেম ড্যাচড্)

Golam Kasem, nick named Daddy, the earliest photographer of

Bangladesh, was born on the 5th of November 1894, in
Jalpaiguri, West Bengal. His photography for pleasure began in
the school days when he bought a quarter sized Ensign Box
camera with the savings of bus fare to school and began taking
photographs of the things he loved, animals, flowers and children.
Importantly he preserved those negatives. In his archive there are
glass plate negatives dating back to 1918. The harbour in
Calcutta, early steam engines, the Gurkha regiment in shorts, and
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large number of portraits are as if the glimpses of history. His

spontaneous pictures were those of animals and children, and
amongst them are some gems. ‘Her first dance’ is a delicate
photograph of a child amidst a twirl, centre stage with her family
as an audience. Strong portraits of his friend a teacher and the
calm portrait of his grandmother also add to the list. The founder
of the Camera Recreation Club, Daddy arranged regular meetings
at his house in Indira Road where the club was housed. Regular
visitors included poet Sufia Kamal, painter Qamrul Hassan and
photographer Manzoor Alam Beg. Daddy was the first Bengali
Muslim short story writer. He used to write regularly for Shawgat,
and continued to write, both technical articles on photography for
the BPS newsletter, and short stories for general publication.
Always articulate, on his 100th birthday, at the opening of a joint
photographic exhibition by him and Manzoor Alam Beg at the Drik
Gallery, he talked eloquently of how photography was the way for
people of the world to make friends, to break barriers, to discover
one another. As the chief guest at the opening of the 1996 World
Press Photo, he talked of his own struggle to overcome the
limitations of an ageing body. “My body says no, but my mind
says you must, and in the end it is the mind that wins.” On Friday
the 9th January 1998, at the age of 104 , this legendary
photographer passes away.
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Iconic Photographs of Bangladesh

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Iconic Photographs of The world