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“Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.” This is a quote from Ansel Adams who was arguably one of the most famous photographers. He was also one of the people who embraced the different aspects of the true art of photography in the twentieth century.
Different types of photography are used to evoke different emotions or different effects. Panoramic images are several different images digitally stitched together to give the effect that a single image was taken instead of many different pictures. This is used a lot in outdoor (nature) photographs because sometimes the photographer cannot take a single full image of a huge mountain or a long landscape. HDR or High Dynamic Range photography is an effect that sharpens the details and edits the lighting to make a photo sharper and more interesting to the eyes. High-Speed photos can be used to catch events that may happen faster than a human can see. Examples of high speed photography include water droplets falling into a body of water or a bullet going through a watermelon. Monochromatic photos are photos of all in one color. Photos in one color might be trying to provoke certain thoughts such as sadness, death, and even happiness.
Photos that have no color are called black and white photography. Black and white photography is used a lot in model photography; sometimes to hide uneven skin tones or to enhance shadows. The controversy about models being retouched to unthinkable lengths has been around for a while. Fashion companies have made models look “size zero” for advertisement, using an as...

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... saw; it did not matter what they looked like or how old they were. But showed hope and joy for the end of the war. Photos have also been faked. The famous fuzzy picture of “Nessy” The Loch Ness Monster called the Surgeon’s Photo. It was thought to have been real until in 1994 when Christian Spurling admitted to faking the photo. His stepfather had been hired to catch the monster, so he thought it would be easier to fake seeing it. Christian’s stepfather took him and his son out to the lake and constructed a fake Lochness monster from wood putty and a toy submarine, then snapped a picture of it.
As we have seen throughout this paper, photography is more than just pointing a camera and pushing a button. No, photography is a true art form that can convey emotion and creativity from the photographer. Photography is an art that has and will live on for a lifetime.

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