Monday, September 24, 2012

Monday, September 24th

1. Daguerreotype is the first successful commercially photographic process. the surface of daguerreotype is like a mirror, it very fragile and can rubbed with a finger. Depending on the angle of view the color of the surface will reflected into it, the image can change from a positive to a negative. Exposure times when daguerrotypes was first use, it would be 3 to fiftteen minute. Modifitions to sensitization process with the improvement of photographic lenses reduced the exposure time to less than a minutes.It replace camera obscura
2. The piece of paper was usually 1000000000% of cotton and was coated with emulsion of egg white. the paper was then dipped in silver nitrate an water, the dried in UV light. By adding electron during the development/ printing process, and the remaining silver chloride is washed out during the fixing
3. Strerograph is when two stereoscopic image images, design to give a three-dimensional effect when being viewed  through a stereoscope or special glasses
4. Each photograph was the size of a visiting card, and they were photograph cards become enormously popular and were traded among friends and visitors

5.Alexander Gardner and Matthew Brady  is a famous civil war photographer. They used Carte de vista. 



Alexander Gardne

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Nicephore Niepce

Nicephore Niepce was famous for being the one of the inventors of photography. he was famous for his "world first photography" in 1825. He made that photograph by "metal plate covered with a ground that was etched following exposure to sunlight"