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By Richard Howard


photography as been seen as a brilliant art form since cameras were introduced one hundred years. People have, for years, wanted to be able to keep images in a place were it could be preserved and admired for a long time. A predecessor for this was painting. Painting, before cameras was a thing in the modern century, is capturing images based on what the painter want to interpret. But this look a lot of skill and time to accurately get a portrait of a person.

The 19th century showed the idea of having cameras to take photos and place them in certain frames or stills. Being invented during the early 19th century, cameras became a popular thing amongst citizens and panoramic photographers alike. The popularity would eventually be enough for it to spread towards the entire world, leading it to be developed further.

An early type was developed during the advent of 1890s. The prototypes that were built back then used a type of glass to develop the pictures so it would not fade way when its hit by light. Since films were introduced much later in time, glass plates were what began it all. When films were developed, it was not favored due to how fragile it was compared to glass plates in that time.

When the film was released, not many professionals like it. This was because of cost for getting it and how quickly it was used up. Although it was perfect for amateurs to use and it became popular because of that. It science, the glass plates had many different applications and was used for various things as well. One these was holography and that was a method that has endured well enough into 2010s.

The years go buy and the film was invented. In its creation during the 20th era, the item has overtaken glass plates as the dominant way of developing pictures. But the coming of modern times came and saw the rise of digital cameras as a preferred use for photographers due to how much film cost and how fast they run out. Although it is still popular among professionals who prefer the style of film.

Originally, when it was invented, photos were monochrome. Also known as black and white, monochrome stayed popular even though color was already invented. This is due to peoples love of how classic these look. This plays with how people love the past and black and white style shows that. Tones are shown in contrast to show the effect of light and dark areas.

Colors took a few tries to create. Glass plates could not fully get colors because they could not hold them and the color would eventually fade in the light. Since the pictures takes hours and upon hours to develop, colors would not stick and fade once flight was shown on it. The first time a picture with colors was taken was 1861 according to history and became a game changer in photography forever.

During the early 80s, the first digitally taken picture and camera was introduced for public use. The digital imagery began to replace film as digital cameras had unlimited shots and was not expensive to get more. Since then, digital photography has became the mainstream method of taking photographs of people and it has not let go since.

Cameras have come a long way. They have had changed peoples lives forever with the many contributions that cameras had made. A very good one is the use eventually transferred to moving pictures that is now known as movies.




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