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Photography is the process of making pictures by means of the action of light. Light patterns reflected or emitted from objects are recorded onto a sensitive medium or storage chip through a timed exposure. The process is done through mechanical, chemical or digital devices known as cameras. Traditionally the product of photography has been called a photograph. The term photo is an abbreviation; many people also call them pictures. In digital photography, the term image has begun to replace photograph.

For centuries images have been projected onto surfaces. Artists used the camera obscura and camera lucida to trace scenes as early as the sixteenth century. These early cameras did not fix an image, but only projected images from an opening in the wall of a darkened room onto a surface, turning the room into a large pinhole camera. The phrase camera obscura literally means darkened room. The first photograph was an image produced in the year eighteen twenty-six by the French inventor Nicephore Niepce on a polished pewter plate covered with a petroleum derivative called bitumen of Judea. Produced with a camera, the image required an eight-hour exposure in bright sunshine. Niepce then began experimenting with silver compounds based on a Johann Heinrich Schultz discovery in the year seventeen twenty-four that a silver and chalk mixture darkens when exposed to light.

Color photography was explored throughout the eighteen hundreds. Initial experiments in color could not fix the photograph and prevent the color from fading. The first permanent color photo was taken in the year eighteen sixty-one by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell. One of the early methods of taking color photos was to use three cameras. Each camera would have a color filter in front of the lens. This technique provides the photographer with the three basic channels required to recreate a color image in a darkroom or processing plant. Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii developed another technique, with three color plates taken in quick succession.

Practical application of the technique was held back by the very limited color response of early film; however, in the early nineteen hundreds, following the work of photo chemists such as H. W. Vogel, emulsions with adequate sensitivity to green and red light at last became available.

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• Selecting Good Stock Photography in the Age of Digital by Beth Brodovsky
  The business of stock photography has drastically changed over the last few years. Ten years ago, selecting photographs for your brochure or newsletter meant spending hours pouring over stock photography catalogs and ordering photo research to find the exact image. When the order came in a giant overnight package, designers would spread transparencies out on the light table, squinting through a
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• The Catalog Production by Maricon Williams
  After the completion of the planning process, catalog production starts. These are the steps when producing a catalog:First is the gathering of data. Before any design to exist you must first gather a complete list of all the products you will include in the catalog, as well as all non-product copy. If some items will be grouped together as one catalog photo block such as a shirt that
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  Have you ever considered renewing design of your web site? In that case you may want to know about place where you can find free photo content for your web.Artmill Photostock is a new name in the design world that provides graphics professionals with a full range of image options in a friendly, intuitive and professional environment. Artmill Photostock, a Canadian company,
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Have you ever considered renewing design of your web site? In that case you may want to know about place where you can find free photo content for your web.

Artmill Photostock is a new name in the design world that provides graphics professionals with a full range of image options in a friendly, intuitive and professional environment.

Artmill Photostock, a Canadian company, produces and distributes unique, premium quality professional photo imagery for the advertising, graphic design, publishing and multimedia corporate communities.

Artmill Creative Group, a company founded by entrepreneurial newcomers in 2001, launched Artmill Photostock in December 2002 with a firm resolution to compete successfully in the Canadian and world imagery market.

“We offer many advantages over our competitors”, - stated Michael Kostrov, President of Artmill Creative Group.

-First of all we hope to provide small and medium sized businesses with affordable product, that is both unique and of high quality. Our prices on Right Managed images are 5 to 10 times lower than other well established Stocks Photography whose prices are better suited for larger corporations with considerable budgets. As such, Artmill's first competitive advantage is providing unique quality product at a competitive price.
-The second very important advantage Artmill has over well known Stocks Photography is the choice of product. We do not increase the assortment because of poor images. We prefer to keep our gallery clean, with our primary focus on people, business, abstract and wildlife. We have high standards and choose product for our gallery accordingly.
-Exclusivity is our third key. We exclusively represent talented photographer Olga Kostrova who has a great sense of colour combination, light, and composition.
-Another advantage is a flexible choice for Royalty Free images. Other major photo galleries require you to buy an entire CD with numerous images that will never be used. Instead of this inconvenient method, Artmill offers a membership system. During the membership period our clients can choose Royalty Free pictures one by one as needed for a specific topic. Prices for Royalty free images can be purchased for as little as .99 CDN per image. When a client purchases a One-year Gold Membership for only 9.00 CDN they have access to 100 unique, exclusively distributed quality images for their personal and professional use.
-In addition our clients have access to FREE photos. This section, as with the others, is updated weekly.
-All images in the People category are model released. It allows the opportunity to use Royalty Free images for any purpose without any limitation.
-Many of the images in Artmill's gallery have stories behind them. Using category or keyword searches, our clients can find images that may suggest new ideas for a promotional campaign. Artmill Photostock is “A PLACE WHERE CREATIVE MINDS EASILY FIND CREATIVE IDEAS”.

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