1) Spider
2) "Love"
3) Flower
4) "Cookie"
5) Medusa
6) Crab claws

Photography: the process or art of producing images of objects on sensitized surfaces by the chemical action of light or other forms of radiant energy

Photo: light + Graphy: a work, an art, or a field of study

    The word photography comes from the Greek words photo, meaning light, and graphein, meaning to draw, and was first used by a scientist named Sir John F.W. Herschel in the year 1839. The first photo is credited to be taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in the summer of 1827 with a camera obscura, or “pinhole camera,” that was created by Alhazen, a great authority on optics around 1000AD. Meanwhile, a Frenchman by the name of Louis Daguerre was finding a way to capture images. After 12 years he was able to reduce exposure time to less than 30 minutes and keep the image from disappearing. Daguerre is known as the inventor of the first practical process of photography and began a partnership with Joseph Nicephore Niepce to improve his process.

In 1839 Daguerre developed a convenient method of photography which he called the Dagurreotype.

In 1814, Henry Fox Talbot created the negative to positive process using sensitized paper and a silver salt solution, calling it a calotype.

Tinytypes were introduced in 1856 by Hamilton Smith where a thin sheet of iron was used as a base for light sensitive material.

In 1851 Frederick Schodd Archer invented the wet plate negative and by 1879 the dry plate was created allowing the invention of a hand held camera.

George Eastman invented a film that was able to be rolled, unbreakable and flexible which became known as the flexible film roll.

Color photographs were introduced to the market in the early 1940s.

Types of Photography

Action Photography

Advertising Photography

Aerial Photography

Art Photography

Documentary Photography

Macro Photography

Micro Photography

Underwater Photography

Portraiture








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