Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Malvern Photography - The Evolution Of Photography

By Billy Edward

Photography! Who could have thought that we would now be able to take pictures by means of a digital camera and transfer to a computer and alter the colors or any of the properties of a picture or a photograph? Digital cameras are sharper and give high quality photos that could be utilized over multiple mediums.

Sir John Herschel is the man who invented the term 'Photography' in 1839.

This was also the year when the process of Photography was unveiled to the public.

How did photography truly develop? Well! It's the bi-product of laws of physics and compounds of chemistry. The evolution of photography is a completely scientific process starting with the use of optics in the 1830's.

The dark room or Camera Obscura existed some four hundred years back, though cameras had been being used ever since the 11th century and yet photography did not come into public use prior to the 1830's.

There had been various observations created by a number of individuals that finally led to putting together of all the missing pieces and this also introduced the advent of photography. Some of those essential findings are:

* In the 15th century, Robert Boyle found out that silver chloride became dark if exposed to air and not light.

* In the early 1800's Angelo Sala observed that when silver nitrate powder is stored in the sun for long, it turns black.

* Around 1727, Johann Heinrich Schulze made a discovery with regards to colors. There had been some liquids that changed their colors when they had been exposed to light.

* Thomas Wedgwood conducted a few studies in the early 19th century. He had captured images but could make the images permanent.

* The first ever triumphant production of a photograph emerged in June-July of 1827 by Joseph Nicphore Nipce. The material used for this turned out to be solid when uncovered to light for nearly 8 hrs. Nipce went into a partnership with Louis Daguerre on 4th Jan, 1829 to work more on this.

Four years later in 1833, Nipce died and Daguerre continued alone to find out how to develop photographic plates. Invention of the photographic plates supposed that the exposure time was reduced considerably, from 8 hrs to 30 minutes. He also created another important observation and the conclusion shown was that immersing an image in salt would make it permanent.

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