A Brief History of Production and The Experts!

The key to becoming an expert is merely through practice, most experts can consider themselves because of specific qualifications and hard work, sometimes its not only the case except for hard work, hard work is expected as it helps a practitioner become an expert, but most importantly it has to do with skill and technique with that the practice can be perfect. Experts are considered to have an intense ongoing experience in what they do in order to push the boundaries of obvious mindsets a creative must work hard and expect challenges along the way. In some cases perfection isn’t the most important factor to be considered most experts are best at their profession because of skill and technique this helps an expert create their own style and own techniques and methods within that particular profession whether it is photography, graphics, or illustration. As a photography student it is natural to get inspiration and ideas from other photographers and visual communicators in the field in order to create my own style of work.

Being a photography student I have come across various photographers but one in particular that inspired me the most for his spectacular and marvelous black and white photography is Ansel Adams, best known for his black and white photographs, Adams had developed the zone system as a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print. The resulting image and depth characterized his photographs. From childhood Adams had appreciation for nature, which would become his primary source of photographic inspiration. He was a visionary figure in nature photography and wilderness preservation. He Inspires me as he produced images of nature which some people take for granted and don’t’ appreciate as much as they should. Adams primarily used large format camera’s despite their size, weight, setup time and film cost, because of the high resolution helped ensue sharpness in his images. Adams photographs are reproduced on calendars, posters and in books making his photographs widely distributed, this skill and preservation is unique in this world of photography today which demonstrates how his skills and techniques is what made him an expert.

From doing research on the history of production I found it interesting at how the first book in Europe was printed , During the 1300’s printing was first printed on cloth, it was in the 1400’s that Johannes Guttenberg a German printer and publisher had designed the Guttenberg Bible also known as the 42-line Bible. It was the first book printed with movable type in the west and the first major book produced on a printing press anywhere in the world. He had used oil ink and a wooden printing press similar to the screw press and production of movable type to produce the printed version of the bible. It is said Guttenberg had created the bible traditionally using metal alloy and hand mould for casting type.