Research paper :)

Michelle Lee

Photography 1

Mr. Sandoval period 2

19 August 2011

"Photography" has the root words from the Greek; photos means "light" and graphy means "to draw". The word was first used by the scientist, Sir John F.W. Herschel, in 1839. It is a method of recording images by the action of light on a sensitive material. The first photographic image that was ever made was on a summer day in 1827; Joseph Nicephore Niepce used a camera obscura to create his very first photography. Prior to Niepce, people just used the camera obscura for viewing or drawing purposes not for making photographs. Louis Daguerre was also another person to experiment to find a way to capture an image. But it took him another dozen years before Daguerre was able to reduce exposure time to less than 30 minutes and keep the image from disappearing afterwards. Although he was the inventor of the first practical process of photography, in 1829, he formed a partnership with Joseph Nicephore Niepce to improve the process Niepce had developed. That’s how the photography start and it soon improved all the way to the modern photography.

There are different types of photography:

1.      Aerial – standing tall above the subject, or shooting from a tall building, plane, etc.

2.      Architecture – shots of buildings (no people).

3.      Artistic – any shot of a subject where creativity is the number 1 goal.

4.      Black and White - aka… B&W, working with no color.

5.      Underwater – any subject captured under water.

6.      Event – concerts, large parties, gatherings.

7.      Macro – photographing very small, or very up close images. Very detailed.

8.      Nature – land, water, plants and animals.