Thursday 1 April 2010

Timeline of Photography

Timeline of Photography:

1666
Issac Newton discovers white light is composed of colours

1727
Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light

1814
Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura - however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded

1837
Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype; the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed less than thirty minutes of light exposure

1851
Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process - images required only two or three seconds of light exposure

1861
Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer

1888
Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera

1925
Oskar Barnack created first LECIA camera. His diminutive, lightweight LEICA A offered a new, undreamed-of freedom in reportage and artistic photography.

1948
Edwin Land markets the Polaroid camera

1963
Polaroid introduces instant colour film

1968
Photograph of the Earth from the moon

1980
Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder

1984
Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera

1985
The Minolta 7000 auto focus was created

1990
Adobe Photoshop 1.0 photo manipulation created

1998
The first consumer mega pixel camera was introduced

2000
first camera phone introduced in Japan

Photo 5

The only editing i have done with this photo was cropped and then cleaned image to make it smarter, Yet again using the clone tool. I debated changing the colour's on it but then i decided against it as i thought the photo would look better its near natural state: