Photography. What is it?
This is a question, which goes far back to early 1800s.
The first photographic images (which have survived) originates from the period 1926 - 1968. During the early 1800s, the first self-portrait (or selfie) as most people preferer to call them. Self-portraits origins from the very first photographic process called the Daguerrioprocess (Invented by Louis Daguerre).
To make an image, using the Daguerrioprocess, the photographer would polish a sheet of silver-plated copper to a mirror finish, treat it with fumes that made its surface light sensitive, expose it in a camera for as long as was judged to be necessary, which could be as little as a few seconds for brightly sunlit subjects or much longer with less intense lighting; make the resulting latent image on it visible by fuming it with mercury vapor; remove its sensitivity to light by liquid chemical treatment, rinse and dry it, then seal the easily marred result behind glass in a protective enclosure.
Photography has in this case been through a constant development, from the first Daguerreotype to analog to the new digital age, and it is still being improved from this day forward.
But the question is; What does it mean to take the shot?
Photography can be various of things, it can be science, art or just a quick snapshot to your friend.
However, Photography is way more than that. It's the way to capture the moment, which will be gone forever.
To bring back to the topic of this discussion "Taking the shot". What does it mean to take the shot?
Taking a picture of a situation is one thing, making the same situation into art is another. I believe you should always take a picture no matter how small or how irrelevant the situation may be. Because the beauty of photography is not what you actual see on the picture, but rather what the meaning of it is.
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This was a short describtion of the beginning of photography, and what I mean it should be to take a picture.
But what do the rest of you actually think on this topic?
Let me know in the comments below
This is a question, which goes far back to early 1800s.
The first photographic images (which have survived) originates from the period 1926 - 1968. During the early 1800s, the first self-portrait (or selfie) as most people preferer to call them. Self-portraits origins from the very first photographic process called the Daguerrioprocess (Invented by Louis Daguerre).
To make an image, using the Daguerrioprocess, the photographer would polish a sheet of silver-plated copper to a mirror finish, treat it with fumes that made its surface light sensitive, expose it in a camera for as long as was judged to be necessary, which could be as little as a few seconds for brightly sunlit subjects or much longer with less intense lighting; make the resulting latent image on it visible by fuming it with mercury vapor; remove its sensitivity to light by liquid chemical treatment, rinse and dry it, then seal the easily marred result behind glass in a protective enclosure.
Photography has in this case been through a constant development, from the first Daguerreotype to analog to the new digital age, and it is still being improved from this day forward.
But the question is; What does it mean to take the shot?
Photography can be various of things, it can be science, art or just a quick snapshot to your friend.
However, Photography is way more than that. It's the way to capture the moment, which will be gone forever.
To bring back to the topic of this discussion "Taking the shot". What does it mean to take the shot?
Taking a picture of a situation is one thing, making the same situation into art is another. I believe you should always take a picture no matter how small or how irrelevant the situation may be. Because the beauty of photography is not what you actual see on the picture, but rather what the meaning of it is.
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This was a short describtion of the beginning of photography, and what I mean it should be to take a picture.
But what do the rest of you actually think on this topic?
Let me know in the comments below