100 things / Research and collect

Before i begin my thorough research i think its needed i pick one specific subject within the theme 'techniques'i am every fond of all the aspects, art, music and dance however i am most interested in photography from the subjects, i would like to learn new techniques myself of how to use different models of cameras, learn about digital and film cameras, software programs and the history of photography and how its progressed as an art form. 


Photography 'Techniques'

I have always been attracted to photography, after studying it last year at university for a year I learned a lot about the academic side of ‘photography’ however not so much about the ‘technical’ side of it. Subsequently I have chosen to look into my ideal topic.

I have chosen to do a little background and history research on photography and the depths of were cameras and imagery first began.


Birth of photography

* "Photography" is derived from the Greek words photos ("light") and graphein ("to draw") The word was first used by the scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel in 1839. It is a method of recording images by the action of light, or related radiation, on a sensitive material.

* Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham), a great authority on optics in the Middle Ages who lived around 1000AD, invented the first pinhole camera, (also called the Camera Obscura} and was able to explain why the images were upside down. The first casual reference to the optic laws that made pinhole cameras possible, was observed and noted by Aristotle around 330 BC, who questioned why the sun could make a circular image when it shined through a square hole.

* In 1825, Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image with a camera obscura. Prior to Niepce people just used the camera obscura for viewing or drawing purposes not for making photographs. Joseph Nicephore Niepce's heliographs or sun prints as they were called were the prototype for the modern photograph, by letting light draw the picture.

* Louis Daguerre was the inventor of the first practical process of photography. In 1829, he formed a partnership with Joseph Nicephore Niepce to improve the process Niepce had developed. In 1839 after several years of experimentation and Niepce's death, Daguerre developed a more convenient and effective method of photography, naming it after himself - the daguerreotype.

First ever photograph taken: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.

View from the Window at Le Gras. Heliograph, in original frame. 25.8 x 29.0 cm.cameras and imagery first began.

In 1825 Niepce obtained the first ever Photographic image with his invention of the ”Camera Obscura”. This managed to take an image after around 8 hours of sunlight exposure, however the image only stayed for a short while, as it faded shortly after being taken.