Photography

Over the past few years I have become more and more interested in the world of photography. The tool of the trade is obviously a camera and throughout time it has changed in some very drastic ways. Cameras allow us to capture a moment in time. The style or quality of a camera can show certain times in history. This is shown best when watching the history channel. You can easily see how old a video clip is simple by looking to see if it has color. The camera has shaped the way we look at history.

In 1822 a french man named Nicèphore Nièpce took the first photography of an engraving of the Pope Pius VII. Before this a camera obscura was used to capture images. This camera of sorts would project the image you wanted on to a piece of paper and then the image would be traced by the camera operator. In the 1850's an English inventor came up with the first positive/negative process and this is considered to be the precursor to the modern way of developing film. This allowed for the use of one negative to make multiple positives. The ability to reproduce the same exact picture is a big advantage and allows you to reproduce the picture for more then one person.

In 1861 James Clerk Maxwell, a Scottish man, showed off his color picture at a Royal institution lecture. The picture, seen above, was taken with three different color filters. The red, green, and blue filters were each used to take three pictures of the tartan ribbon. The three images were projected on to a screen and when focused properly a color image appears. In 1877 over a bet the first fast motion pictures were taken. The bet that a horse doesn't fully leave the ground when galloping was settled after Eadweard Muybridge took a picture of a horse while in gallop. The picture showed that before the hind legs hit the front legs had left the ground. The pictures taken would be used in a simple version of stop motion. These advances all lead up to what we see to day in the world of photography.