He removed the lens cap, sprinted into the frame and sat on a stool for a minute before returning the cap. From camera obscura to the digital camera, photography has come a long way. In the decades since its invention, it has helped shape both how we see the world and how we live in it.
You may have heard of camera obscura. It occurs when a scene is projected through a pinhole onto an opposite surface, upside down. Some have suggested cavemen may have been inspired by the effects of camera obscura perhaps through tiny holes in their tents when creating their paleolithic cave paintings.
More recently from the s , artists have used camera obscura devices to help them with their drawings or paintings. Using a camera he designed, he captured an image on a piece of paper coated in silver chloride. This is where glass or metal is coated with a type of asphalt that hardens in proportion to its exposure to light.
When you wash the plate with lavender oil, only the hardened areas remain and voila! You have a photo. Today, we still have one of these photographs — the earliest surviving snapshot in history, called View from the Window at Le Gras or A daguerreotype photograph sits on a mirror-like silver surface, usually under a protective layer of glass.
Depending on the angle you see it from, it can appear positive or negative. While we have the daguerreotype to thank for making photography mainstream, it was hardly an ideal form of photography.
The art behind it was incredibly complex: A photographer had to polish a sheet of silver-plated copper and treat it with fumes that made its surface sensitive to light before exposing it in a camera. The image then had to be fumed with mercury vapors and treated with a liquid chemical treatment so it was no longer sensitive to light.
Finally, it was rinsed, dried and sealed behind glass. Cheaper devices continued to be developed. This meant that ordinary people could now experiment with photography. We wish or are compelled to inform, educate, entertain, reform, or share some experienced with others. An effective photograph can disseminate information about humanity and nature, record the visible world, and extend human knowledge and understanding.
For all these reasons, photography has aptly been called the most important invention since the printing press. Captions are also an integral part of a photo story that should help the viewer understand each image.
Elements like lighting, the rule of thirds, lines, shapes, texture, patterns, and color all work well together to add interest and a great deal of composition in photographs. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. Skip to content Home Architecture How has the digital camera impacted society? Ben Davis February 7, How has the digital camera impacted society?
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Does film go bad if not developed? In the end, out of the eight plates he got four award-winning photos. Even when rolls of film were at their most popular, photography could be an expensive hobby for the amateur.
But now in the digital age there is almost no consequence or cost to taking pictures, beyond charging the phone or dedicated camera. The most popular camera used on photo-sharing website Flickr is actually an iPhone, says Nate Lanxon editor of technology site wired. The rise of the camera phone means that compact digital cameras are on the way out, with only the larger digital SLR cameras - used by keen amateurs and professionals - doing good business.
Now the iPhone 4S has a resolution of eight megapixels, not far off that of the bottom end of 10 megapixels carried by most cheap cameras. People's behaviour in public has changed thanks to digital cameras. Nowadays diners in restaurants might greet the arrival of their food with a few excited clicks of their phone to capture that sushi or pizza for posterity. Go back a couple of decades and the idea of showing a friend a picture of a dinner you'd been served earlier would raise eyebrows.
One of the most pronounced changes is at concerts and sporting events. Go to see a stadium gig and you'll be confronted by a forest of arms holding cameras aloft. At a football match thousands of little camera flashes speckle the crowd at kick-off and after goals. Steven Colburn is a PhD student at Sussex University, working on a doctoral thesis on people who film concerts and post the footage on YouTube.
And then they're uploading it onto YouTube, demonstrating their attendance at the event. Effectively they are showing the rest of the "fan community" that "I was there".
They are also offering the first record of the event, beating the traditional media. The amateur filmers and snappers are aware that not everyone at the concert appreciates what they do. Concerts are dark places and a camera provides a distracting light source.
And then there are the arms in people's line of sight. It can result in disputes, Colburn says, adding that a man from Texas told him he even elbows people out of the way to get the footage he wants.
The main impact of digital is the sheer number of photographs being taken. If an uncle went to his niece's first birthday in he might have considered shooting off a single 24 exposure-roll of film a rather generous photographic record. Today, with a digital camera, he would think nothing of taking or photos. In the week of the royal wedding, a survey projected that some million pictures relating to the event were likely to be taken on digital cameras.
The idea of photography being free is amazing. Today photography is cheap and almost effortless.
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