Photography Portraits

Thank you to the beautiful models

Assignment #7 Part One

Texture

Pattern

Selective Focus

Leading Line

Exploring Photoshop

Understanding Your Camera

History of Photography

      History of Photography

Intro

The invention of photography is the combination of multiple different advances in technology. The process of capturing light and transcribing it onto an object (first materials like wood and metal, and later modern photographic paper) was first discovered in the 18th century. Although, Leonardo DaVinci had diagrams an designs as early as 1515. The technology was not used to capture accurate photographs until much later.

Early Advances

In 1816 the first camera negatives were taken, these photos consisted of images where the lighting was reversed and therefore were unclear and inaccurate

First Photographs

The first proper photographs were captured as early as 1835 when Henry Fox Talbot discovered the process to convert negatives to positives where the light is properly represented and not reversed. The method is still used to this day in modern non digital photography.

Advancing Technology

Through the remainder of the nineteenth century further advances in camera photography were made. Including when Edmond Becquerel created the first full-color photographs, but they are only prototypes where an exposure lasting hours or days is required and the colors are so light-sensitive that they sometimes fade right before the viewer's eyes while being examined. Then later in 1888 the Kodak box camera, the first easy-to-use camera, is introduced with the slogan, "You press the button, we do the rest."

The 20th Century

The 20th century saw many advances in photographic technology, the extremely portable and self self developing Polaroid camera became immensely popular. people could now have copies of the photos right after they were taken, the first 35mm slr cameras are also developed during this decade. then in 1995 Kodak and Apple release the first digital cameras to consumers

Modern Photography

Today photography is almost entirely dominated by digital cameras, hardly will you see a roll of film now. Even the sighting of a device which sole purpose is to take pictures is becoming rarer because of the introduction of camera phones. Who knows, maybe eventually camera phones will surpass the capabilities of DSLR's and they will become obsolete.