Photography 2

The last blog I did ended a little early so I thought it would only be appropriate for me to finish it off. In the last blog I talked about how the first picture was taken and how that soon lead to the positive/ negative developing process. I also talked about James Maxwell and his way of showing the first color pictures. I left off in 1877 when the first fast motion pictures was developed over a bet on whether or not a horses hooves all leave the ground when running. They do. I obviously couldn't just leave it at that. There is a large chunk of history left out. This leaves a lot of room to blog.

There have been many improvements on the camera since 1877. In 1885 George Eastman invented the first roll film. This allowed you to take many more pictures in less time and it made a much safer way to handle the unexposed film. This made it possible for Kodak to come out with the first mass produced camera in 1888. This was the beginning of the easy-to-use cameras where basic point and click is all you need to know. This roll film technology also was essential to early motion picture makers such as Thomas Edison. The roll film really is what lead to cameras gain in popularity and the same basic design is still used today.

In 1891 Thomas Edison invented the kinetoscope or motion picture seen above. Edison was the first to get a copyright for his short motion picture clip of his assistant sneezing. Soon after that the Lumière brothers introduced the first projected motion picture. The photography then started to really boom. The Lumière brothers soon had a new color film process and were quick to market it. Throughout this time Kodak continues to make smaller and more efficient. They soon come out with the first pocket camera and continue to improve upon the development process. This ends my history on photography.

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.