Photo History! Before Photography 1. The term photography in Greek means what? Light drawing. 2. What does Camera Obscura mean? To make an image from a small hole in a dark room. It makes an Image upside down. 3. How did Schultz contribute to the evolution of photography? Photos are produced by light not by heat.
Photo History! Talbot's Processes 1. What did Talbot use to create a photo sheet? Silver nitrate. 2. What did he have to do to "keep" the image? From switching from silver nitrate to silver iodine. 3. What did Talbot essentially introduce? Negative positive process.
1. Photography is primarily what? Portraits 2. What different types of images could a wet collodion process plate give? can give you a negative or a positive 3. What is historically important about tintypes? earliest democratic type of photograph. They were used by soldiers to send back home.
4. Photo History The Cyanotype 1. This produces what type of image/ look? The image looks like a permeant blue and white image.
2. In the 1940's what was Cyanotype used for the most? They use it most as a blue print in construction zones.
1. What century was this process most popular? 19th century 2. What did photographers keep so that they could supply the albumen for this process? They kept chickens so they could make the albumen. 3. What did the Albumen Print make possible? Convey knowledge.
The Pigment Processes 1. The gum print is based on what? Light sensitivity on chromium. 2. If you look at a gum print, the darker areas of the picture are because of what and the whiter areas of the picture are because of? Where the areas are struck by light it gets darker and the whiter the print, the light didn't touch it. 3. (Watch video to the end to help develop your answer for this question) Is digital photography as fine of an art form as photography from the past that took more time to process? Why or why not? Explain your reasoning. No because today, you can take a lot pictures and get the shot you want but, back then, you had to think about the shot and take the best one.
The Woodburytype - Photographic Processes
1. The Woodburytype photomechanical process combines what? photography and the press. 2. What happens when the warm gelatin with pigment is pushed into the mold? Pushed into the mold and you get a formed image. 3. Why are Woodburytype images not considered photos? Because they are a cast of an image. They are a mold.
We will watch this at the start of class to continue our history of Photography. We will slowly work our way from more recent historic events to the oldest. 1. What is in the gelatin emulsion? it consists of silver halide crystals dispersed in gelatin. The emulsion is usually coated onto a substrate of glass, films (of cellulose nitrate, cellulose acetate or polyester), paper, or fabric. 2. When was gelatin silver print first introduced? in the late 1800s 3. What about silver gelatin made it so important? It has a smooth surface and holds the image.
1. Why were there no clouds in the 19th century landscape photos The white of the sky and the blue of the sky are the same value. 2. Whats one of the earliest ways to get a color photo? He put three negative photos on top of each other. 3. How is the subtractive color method done? Mixing magenta cyan and yellow.
1. What was one of the hardest things the developers of the Digital camera (the fair child devise) had to overcome? From going to kinetic energy to Digital. 2. What is the significance of prints vs. a digital image, what is changing about our memory to images? Digital is right on your everyday phones or cameras and nobody prints anymore. 3. Give one fact that you found interesting from this video. When they were talking about the differences about print and digital.
Historical Essay. 1. How do photographers care for and maintain materials, tools, and equipment now in the digital age compared to when film reigned supreme. (Use the questions and answers that relate to process and materials They care for them way differently then they do back then. Now in the digital age, all you have to do is take a picture on your phones and you have that image forever but back then, you had to take extra careful with how you take an image. Cameras were really sensitive to light back then. You had to go to a dark room to develop the images.
2. What important scientific markers happened because of photography throughout its development from the early stages to now? (Look for the questions and answers that imply major events in time or the changes in history because of photography) An important scientific marker is the photo process called the tintypes. The tintypes were important because solders could take a photo of themselves or of something and send them back to their families because it was made of metal and not paper. 3. What visually was the most memorable event in the historic videos to you? and why The most memorable things for me were how far photography has come and how much it has evolved. I liked all of the different types of styles and different concepts people made over the years. Ansel Adams sticks out to me the most because he took a lot of nature shots and I tried to do nature shots like him in my photos. He made sure that the image was perfect before taking the shot.