From Chemical Poisoning to Exploding Cameras – 14 Photography Facts
Today we’re going to take a look at some of the most interesting facts from the history of Photography. Let’s dive in: […]
Can quality in photography be objectively measured?
Are there any standards on how can quality in photography be objectively measured (and art generally not only photography)? I would love to have your comments on this topic. Write your comments down in the comments areas please. […]
The First Digital Camera: Kodak’s Secret Breakthrough
Kodak’s Secret Breakthrough These days it’s almost impossible to imagine a world where digital photography didn’t exist; where pictures took hours and hours to develop, and you had to have them processed by a professional in a dark room, and couldn’t do it yourself on your phone or computer. [...]
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky: Pioneer in Colour Photography
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky Pioneer in Colour Photography Today, colour photography is the default, it’s easy, and anyone can do it. But it is only in the last century that colour photography has even been possible. […]
Daguerreotype – The birth of Modern Photography
Daguerreotype – the birth of modern photography In our previous blog on the history of photography, we looked at the work of French amateur scientist and early photographer Joseph Nicephore Niepce. The photographic process that he called Heliography produced the first photographic images by placing a bitumen covered steel plate [...]
Photo editing before Photoshop
Photoshop has become a byword for image manipulation in the digital era; enabling anyone to alter the photographs they take. The word itself has become a verb; often with negative overtones. It is the ease in which images can be altered that leads many into questioning the ethics behind such [...]
Tracing photography back to the first photograph
The first photograph These are boom times for photography. Just when you’d had enough of buying film and waiting for your snaps to be developed, along came digital cameras – and just as your computer hard drive was brimming with images of all kinds, along comes the photo-sharing site Instagram [...]
Camera obscura and the beginnings of photography
Camera obscura and the beginnings of photography Before there was photography as we know it today, there were portraits, paintings, and the camera obscura. Also known as the pinhole camera, it was a vital step for the developing art of photography. […]