The Role Of Photography In Chad Orzel's Eureka !

Throughout Chad Orzel’s book, Eureka! Discover your inner scientist he heavily emphasises that science can be connected to most of our everyday activities. He demonstrates this by using the scientific method that is looking, thinking, testing, and sharing. Each step can be seen being used in everyday activities like Crosswords, Angry Birds, or Where's Waldo. I believe photography uses all 4 of the steps. Photography has grown a lot over the years. Instagram Snapchat and smartphones have helped bring photography to the mainstream. Lots of people are growing an interest in photography. This has lead people to believe that photography isn’t complicated or takes a lot of thinking. People think it's as easy as point and shoot. There is however a lot more than that, such as settings to adjust and hours of time spent into editing a picture. While many would say being a photographer requires no skill, a good photographer requires steps from the scientific method of looking, thinking, testing, and sharing.

Photography demonstrates the step of looking. In
Orzel explains in his book that after you look at what you have you think about what you can do to move on to what you want to achieve. In the section of thinking on page 89 Orzel talks about how there are many different ways of organizing something such as alphabetic, numeric, and even autobiographical. All ways of organizing are valid as long as you give a reason in why you did that. This is the same in photography because while some photographers would say a photo is underexposed (not bright enough) others would argue it helps the aesthetic of the picture. There are different ways to take a picture, there is no one way to take a picture. You can adjust a pictures brightness by changing how fast the picture is taken or how much light is let into the lens. Both have benefits and drawbacks. In science Orzel explains there are many incarnations