Different Photography Terms!

Camera Obscura

The camera obscura is considered to be the first cameras.

To create a camera obscura photo you would enter a completely dark room and have a single hole, which would have a light shining from the outside.

Also known as “Pinhole camera” because it only has one hole as a light entry. Image is upside down in the process of creating these types of photos.

Calotype

 

Calotype is an early photographic process introduced in 1841 by William Henry Fox Talbot.

This method of creating images was by using paper coated with silver iodide

Photos are created in negatives. (Black & white)

Brownie Camera

 

The creation of the brownie camera allowed cameras to be easily used within the family and any time use; for the factor of the simplicity. Photos were taken at a click of a button, fully automatic camera.

First Brownie camera came out in February 1900 for only $1!

Brownie cameras, which included flash, used a light bulb as a light source within the camera.

Dry Plate Proccess

 

 It was invented by Dr. Richard L. Maddox in 1871, and by 1879 it was such a successful that the first dry plate factory had been established.

Dry plate photos were created by adjusting to different light sensitivityies of silver bromide.

Due to the silver bromide images were coated with a silver, yellowish, or negative colour effect.

The Daguerreotype

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was the founder of the Daguerreotype photography process.

Silver Salts

Silver Halides are used in photographic film and photographic paper, including graphic art film and paper, where silver halide crystals in gelatine are coated on to a film base, glass or paper substrate.

Silver salts are extremely light sensitive

Silver salt is one of the compounds formed between silver and one of the following halogens silver bromide, chloride, iodide, and three forms of silver fluorides.