Aubzie Arts And Photography

The majority of people believe that you are born with a photographic memory, however, this is not always the case. You can develop an eidetic memory, often called photographic memory, with a lot of practice and a good deal of patience. If you are interested in developing your memory skills you should firstly seek some instruction on how to have a photographic memory. You can start by reading books on the topic or listening to audiotapes that deal with how to have photographic memory. Other people prefer to watch video tapes or DVDs or even engage some personal instruction from someone who teaches photographic memory techniques.

For those who need reminding our brains function in a way that is similar to a computer’s hard drive, as it has the ability to store enormous amounts of information. A computer stores information in files and allows you to retrieve the data from the files whenever you need them. Our brains work in a similar fashion, so it is important to send the information we want to store and later recall to the correct ‘file’ in our brain.

Can you imagine trying to retrieve information that has just been stored in a great bundle and not put in any particular order? When learning how to have a photographic memory, you learn to file information away in an orderly fashion so that it is instantly retrievable whenever you need it.

Association and Pictures – Helpful Techniques for Brain Training

We have all, at some time, been introduced to a new person and within two minutes have completely forgotten their name. A photographic memory technique which is effective for remembering this type of detail is to use word association. If, for instance, you were to be introduced to a rather large gentleman by the name of Albert, by using name association you could reference Albert to the cartoon TV Series ‘Fat Albert’. While this association may be unkind, it is a very effective way of quickly remembering someone’s name – try it, you will be surprised at how well this works.

You need to know that the mind works with the senses a lot as the flow of information comes from the outside world to the one inside us in the cortex of the brain. How it works is that the mind does a lot of association in the first place, which means that whatever information there is in the first place that we get exposed to, the brain associates to whichever sense that is closest to it. This is why, when we try to force information into the brain, a lot of it is filtered away into the unknown.

Plenty of students who try to study and cram as much information as possible would have a revelation that they cannot actually remember some of the things they remember. However, of course, we as individuals are not trained to remember by association alone, as we have been exposed to a study pattern that forces us to force information down the pipeline into the brain as much as possible. There are some things you must know about how the mind works before you decide to go on a rampage and try to develop a photographic memory and one of these things is that the mind is not trained to be discerning in the sense that it will try to remember everything possible.

Part of secret service training, or memory training, is that they are trained in mental therapies that allow them to remember the most important things in a scenario and you need to be able to do this. Of course, you do not need to enter into some military outfit to do so, there are many available commercial consumer level programmes that you can use as well for much of the same results.

Also, when you do try to focus your mind, you need to learn in an environment where you can slip yourself into a period of extreme concentration. This is important because distraction is one of the banes of moulding your mind into a memory machine. In the end of the day, you need to be able to associate and visualise. You can see this from the very fact that a smell of a certain food or a certain place or even a certain fragrance can bring up even forgotten memories from the past and this is very much the same thing.

This is called association and many of the memory experts in the world use this as the perennial tool to sharpen the mind and make remembering that much easier. There are many programmes and guide books on how you can do this. Picking them up is quite easy but in this respects, you need to do some research to get the best ones. There are plenty of review sites out there that will give you the low down on the best programmes out there and how they apply to you. Very soon, after some months, you will be able to make your mind into a photographic memory machine.

Who says that only mind freaks can have photographic memory? You definitely can hear the oohs and aahs when the Mind Freak himself was able to draw for you a detailed drawing of the entire city just after a 5 min helicopter ride. It is a miracle how these people are able to remember so well. Now, imagine if you have the exact same power and ability. Wouldn’t that be incredible? Just glimpse through your textbooks the hour before you sit for your exam and you will definitely score a miracle ‘A’. Check out these 3 effective photographic memory techniques for you that you can use and benefit from.

Before getting started, photographic memory requires some kind of practice and technique too. So if you cannot do it after the first try, do not quit. Give yourself some time to get used to it too.

First, the link system is usually used to aid you with all sorts of memory work. This is highly useful for memorizing texts in the form of lists or chores. So, lets say if you have a long shopping list to remember, try to get all the words and try to make it into mental scenario out of it. Example, if you are given a list of things – pink, shirt, cat, slippers, ironing and flowers, make a picture out of this by thinking of CAT wearing a SHIRT printed with FLOWERS and so on. When you reach the last item, try to link it to the first. This short mental film will help you to remember effectively and quickly.

The second method is to use the peg system. The peg system is used usually to remember images in a sequence. This number-shape system will help you to remember the sequences of images accurately in a jiffy. For example, you are given pictures of a dog, cat, mouse, elephant, antelope and giraffe arranged in this sequence. To use the peg system, simply attach a number to each picture Example 1 dog, 2 cats, 3 mice, 4 elephant et cetera. At the same time, use your mental scenario to make the peg system work. Remember to link the animals to each other, by using the same technique as mentioned in the link system.

The last technique would involve the use of the ever-famous mind mapping. Back in the school days, the mind mapping technique is a very popular and highly encouraged technique. However, over time, people choose to chuck this technique away simply because they are finding it harder to use. Well, this of course depends on the kind of area you are planning to use the mind mapping technique for. To use the mind mapping technique effectively, simply take the key central image of the concept and branch out information that is related. It might get messier as you go by, but it is an excellent tool for organizing a busy timetable or storing large quantities of information.

Photography has come a long way since the invention of the Daguerréotypes and the Calotypes. Photographic prints are as important to photography as is the camera. You can have the camera, the technology but if you can’t take a photographic print, you can’t see how the picture has come out.

Though, with the advent of digital cameras, the use of photographic prints has been taken to the point of becoming obsolete. The Daguerréotype process involved the use of metal sheets and a positive silver image was fixed on top of the metal sheet. William Henry Fox Talbot was the man responsible for moving a step ahead by using a negative through which multiple prints could be made.

Around 1856, Hamilton Smith patented a process termed as Tintypes. The process used a thin sheet of iron as the base to yield a positive image. In 1889, it was made simpler by George Eastman, who realized the true potential of the photography market. He released a film that had a flexible base for easy rolling. The emulsion coated cellulose nitrate film base made the process of shooting images easier.

Now photographers could carry their boxed cameras without worrying about the large and cumbersome plates. Eastman’s first camera was launched in 1888 and came with a preloaded film. Once the pictures were taken, the camera with the films had to be sent to the Kodak factory where these films were translated into photo prints.

Even though the camera was well on its way to popularity, the film rolls were available only in Black and White. So Photography of that period was devoid of colors. B&W films were made of cellulose nitrate that is a chemical compound that is similar to guncotton. A film with a nitrate base will deteriorate with time and in the process would release acidic gasses and oxidants. The nitrate base film was also highly flammable. Nitrate films actually built the foundation for the first flexible roll films. It also created the base for development of the 35-mm roll film in the mid 1920’s.

By the end of 1920, the medium type roll film came into existence. This film roll was 6cms wide and was covered with a paper sheet to make it easy for anyone to carry it along in broad daylight. Nine years later, the TLR or the twin reflex camera was developed.

By the beginning of the 1940’s, the film roll market had gained momentum and color films were born. Though by 1935, Kodak had already developed their color film called Kodachrome. The new color films used the dye-coupled colors technology. This technology used a chemical process, which connected the 3 layers of dye together to create a color image. This system is still in use.