To see film and photography

The miracle that is sight is amazing, but when you utilize your sight to decode imagery produced from the work flow of a camera, you are combining two equally special processes. You are taking in the imagery with your eyes, that has already been taken in by a lens, refracted through an open shutter, and transposed to film, video, and still photography. To work with cinematography, is to master the will of the machine to put forth what your eyes have taken in, and present it for others to taken in with their eyes. You are literally the machine's master.

Film and video production.

Any piece of film or video is moving imagery and light captured by a camera. The camera is quite similar to the human eye. Light hits the lens and it is instantly transported through a series of mediums before it can be decoded to a flat surface known as film and video. The lens is similar to our corneas. It captures the light that hits it, and is responsible for focusing the image. This focused image passes through an open shutter and is refracted through a series of mirrors. The image may bounce back and forth covering over 10 feet worth of traveling within the tiny body of the camera. The image will eventually reach an area where it is exposed to light sensitive material known as film and video. Once this film and video is exposed to light, it will hold the image exposed to it on top of it. Light can be shown through this translucent surface and projected onto a much larger surface, such as a movie screen. This is how a camera captures and produces imagery. Further information can be found at: http://www.gallarotti.net/

Sight

Sight is the incredibly complex process of conveying messages from the eye, to the brain. The first step of this process is for light to enter the cornea. The cornea is the bent clear part of the sclera directly in front of the colored part of the eye. It is clear so light may pass through it. As light passes through it, the cornea focuses the image before it is encoded into an electrical signal, passed through the iris and the pupil, and carried to the retina. The retina is a flat surface at the back of the eyeball, where the image is decoded to a flat image. The image is then encoded again as an electrical signal, and carried by the optic nerves that are connected to the retina, to the back of the eyeball, where the optic nerves form together as one long nerve. This long nerve carries the electrical signal to the brain where the message is decoded and analyzed for the last time. This is sight. Further information can be found at: www.sightsaversusa.org/learn_more/the_eye/11494.html