Today is National Camera Day. Take a picture of yourself, or of another subject. Be sure that is is a fashionable photograph.
Photography is important to the fashion industry for many reasons. Fashion photography is a genre of photography devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items. Fashion photography is most often conducted for advertisements, fashion magazines, fashion events such as fashion week, etc. Learn more about fashion photography.
Are you a professional photographer or simply having fun with photos? Either way, it is a perfectly fabulous idea to take plenty of photos on National Camera Day.
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Fun Fact: Fashion photography has been in existence since the earliest days of photography. In 1856, Adolphe Braun published a book containing 288 photographs of Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione, a Tuscan noblewoman at the court of Napoleon III. The photos depict her in her official court garb, making her the first fashion model.
What is a camera? Many young people only know that they can take selfies from their smart phones. A camera is an optical instrument to capture still images or to record moving images, which are stored in a physical medium such as in a digital system or on photographic film. A camera consists of a lens which focuses light from the scene, and a camera body which holds the image capture mechanism. The still image camera is the main instrument in the art of photography and captured images may be reproduced later as a part of the process of photography, digital imaging, photographic printing.
A selfie is a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and shared via social media (or for other purposes).
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