These days, photography is something that can be done by almost everyone, because cameras are pretty much everywhere. This is why people, both amateurs and professionals, can do everything from simple point and shoot photography, all the way to specialty skills like product, architectural, and commercial photography. But before this was possible, photography had to undergo over 200 years of development, using the ideas and experiments done by the ancient minds from over thousands of years ago.
Long before the dawn of chemical photography, our ancient ancestors have already begun experimenting on the fundamentals and concepts that will make photography possible. Ancient philosopher Mo Ti, and almost at the same time, Greek mathematicians Euclid and Aristotle, have toyed with what is called a pinhole camera, from as far back as the 5th and 4th centuries BC. But it wasn't just the ancient Greeks and Chinese that experimented, because during this time, Byzantine mathematicians have also been using their form of a camera obscura for multiple experiments.
Those examples, however, only played around with the principles behind the craft, but true photography wouldn't really exist until 1826, when the very first actual and permanent photograph was made. The first photo was made by Joseph Nicephore Niepce, when he used a polished pewter plate, and bitumen of Judea, a material that hardens when exposed to light. When the bitumen hardened on the plate, the negative image left behind could then be coated with ink, and pressed on paper to produce a print.
From that point onward, very similar processes would be developed, each one taking one step further. The next big step would be made by Fox Talbot in 1840, when he invented the calotype process, which used paper sheets coated with silver chloride to create an intermediate negative image that can then be used to reproduce positive prints. This silver chloride covered paper was a precursor of the modern chemical film.
During this time however, film and camera technologies weren't the only things being developed. Styles and techniques in taking photos were advancing as well, like in 1849 when Count Sergei Lvovich Levitsky, first suggested, and used, proper artificial lighting, and a dedicated studio, to take photos of subjects. It was a big step forward from the previous manner of taking photos, which just relied on natural or simple artificial lights.
These major milestones of the past, paved the way for more modern cameras, lenses, and films, to be made. With the arrival of digital photography, however, along with massive advancements in technology, photography is poised to take even greater strides in the near future. These advancements would make photography even more accessible, and more enjoyable by the average person.
Long before the dawn of chemical photography, our ancient ancestors have already begun experimenting on the fundamentals and concepts that will make photography possible. Ancient philosopher Mo Ti, and almost at the same time, Greek mathematicians Euclid and Aristotle, have toyed with what is called a pinhole camera, from as far back as the 5th and 4th centuries BC. But it wasn't just the ancient Greeks and Chinese that experimented, because during this time, Byzantine mathematicians have also been using their form of a camera obscura for multiple experiments.
Those examples, however, only played around with the principles behind the craft, but true photography wouldn't really exist until 1826, when the very first actual and permanent photograph was made. The first photo was made by Joseph Nicephore Niepce, when he used a polished pewter plate, and bitumen of Judea, a material that hardens when exposed to light. When the bitumen hardened on the plate, the negative image left behind could then be coated with ink, and pressed on paper to produce a print.
From that point onward, very similar processes would be developed, each one taking one step further. The next big step would be made by Fox Talbot in 1840, when he invented the calotype process, which used paper sheets coated with silver chloride to create an intermediate negative image that can then be used to reproduce positive prints. This silver chloride covered paper was a precursor of the modern chemical film.
During this time however, film and camera technologies weren't the only things being developed. Styles and techniques in taking photos were advancing as well, like in 1849 when Count Sergei Lvovich Levitsky, first suggested, and used, proper artificial lighting, and a dedicated studio, to take photos of subjects. It was a big step forward from the previous manner of taking photos, which just relied on natural or simple artificial lights.
These major milestones of the past, paved the way for more modern cameras, lenses, and films, to be made. With the arrival of digital photography, however, along with massive advancements in technology, photography is poised to take even greater strides in the near future. These advancements would make photography even more accessible, and more enjoyable by the average person.
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