A History of Photography
Today, we enjoy the availability and convenience of digital cameras, which are present practically everywhere and integrated in almost every modern electronic device. For this reason, a lot of people have easily been able to take up, and enjoy photography, and almost everyone can be a photographer. But it took over two hundred years of modern development, using concepts dating back thousands of years, before it reached this point.
The basic concepts used in photography, are traced back all the way to the ancient minds of civilizations past many thousands of years ago. Ancient philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists, like Mo Ti from China, and Aristotle from Greece, were said to have tinkered with what is known as a pinhole camera. This trend during the ancient times would be shared by the other great civilizations of the era, which had their own scientists playing around with their own camera-like devices, which they used in experiments and scientific studies.
Those were only the principles behind photography, however, and it wouldn't be until 1826, when the first permanent photo was made, that photography would officially be born. Joseph Nicephore Niepce, who used a polish pewter plate and some bitumen of Judea, a substance that hardens upon exposure to light, created the very first photograph. This is caused by the plate, on which the bitumen leaves behind a negative image, covered with ink, and pressed on paper to create a print.
From that point onward, many more developments in the basic process would be made over the years, like the calotype process, invented in 1840 by Fox Talbot, which used paper sheets covered in silver chloride. The paper sheet would then be used to make an intermediate negative image, which is needed, and used, to create the final positive print. It is this paper, along with the way the prints would be made, that would be one of the foundations of modern chemical film and modern film development.
With all these emerging technologies came developments in the way photographs would be taken, because at first, all photos relied on simple lighting, and were done either outside, or at the most well lit room possible. In 1849 however, a Russian photographer named Count Sergei Lvovich Levitsky, who also designed a bellows camera that improved focusing, started the idea of artificially lighting subjects in a studio. The results of his efforts yielded him numerous awards, and since then studio photography began to take off.
All of these past milestones laid the groundwork for further development, which would lead to us enjoying the benefits of modern cameras today. Digital photography is now the norm in many areas, opening the doors to further developments in photography in the future. This would then attract even more people to photography, both as a hobby and as a career.
The basic concepts used in photography, are traced back all the way to the ancient minds of civilizations past many thousands of years ago. Ancient philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists, like Mo Ti from China, and Aristotle from Greece, were said to have tinkered with what is known as a pinhole camera. This trend during the ancient times would be shared by the other great civilizations of the era, which had their own scientists playing around with their own camera-like devices, which they used in experiments and scientific studies.
Those were only the principles behind photography, however, and it wouldn't be until 1826, when the first permanent photo was made, that photography would officially be born. Joseph Nicephore Niepce, who used a polish pewter plate and some bitumen of Judea, a substance that hardens upon exposure to light, created the very first photograph. This is caused by the plate, on which the bitumen leaves behind a negative image, covered with ink, and pressed on paper to create a print.
From that point onward, many more developments in the basic process would be made over the years, like the calotype process, invented in 1840 by Fox Talbot, which used paper sheets covered in silver chloride. The paper sheet would then be used to make an intermediate negative image, which is needed, and used, to create the final positive print. It is this paper, along with the way the prints would be made, that would be one of the foundations of modern chemical film and modern film development.
With all these emerging technologies came developments in the way photographs would be taken, because at first, all photos relied on simple lighting, and were done either outside, or at the most well lit room possible. In 1849 however, a Russian photographer named Count Sergei Lvovich Levitsky, who also designed a bellows camera that improved focusing, started the idea of artificially lighting subjects in a studio. The results of his efforts yielded him numerous awards, and since then studio photography began to take off.
All of these past milestones laid the groundwork for further development, which would lead to us enjoying the benefits of modern cameras today. Digital photography is now the norm in many areas, opening the doors to further developments in photography in the future. This would then attract even more people to photography, both as a hobby and as a career.
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