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History of Photography

By AnNi3

  • Camera Obscurs

    Camera Obscurs
    The Camera Obscura is a 18th century device used by artist to ake quick sketches in a field. "Camera Obscura" means "dark room" and the camera was made in a box shape with a pinhole which would reflect the image onto a wall upside down, the artists would then sketch the image.

  • Daguerreotype Era Begins

    Daguerreotype Era Begins
    The daguerroetype process becomes more popular, leading to pictures such as this one, taken around 1850
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    History of Photography

  • First Photo Of Lightning

    First Photo Of Lightning
    In 1847, early pioneer Thomas Easterly makes a daguerreotype of a bolt of lightning-the final picture to capture this natural element.

  • First Colour Photo

    First Colour Photo
    James Clerk Maxwell creates a colour image superimposing onto a single screen, Three images were passed through three filters- red, green and blue. His multi colored ribbon is the first to prove the efficacy of the three coloured method.

  • First Action Photos

    First Action Photos
    Eadweard Muybridge began taking photograph sequences that capture animals and humans in motion.

  • First photo of a tornado

    First photo of a tornado
    Taken by an unknown photographer, this image is thought ot be the oldest exisiting photo of a tornado

  • First series of photos in National Georgraohic

    First series of photos in National Georgraohic
    National Geographic national publishes its first stand alone photographic series in 1905. The piece, a photographic tour of Lhasa, Tibet, runs in the January 1905 issue and fills 11 pages.
    Magazine editor Gilbert H. Grosvenor thought he would be fired by the pictorial but unexpectedly he was congratulated.

  • First Underground Photograph

    First Underground Photograph
    The dome room in New Mexico's Carlsbad Cavern marked the first underground color photograph ever shot.

  • First underwater photos

    First underwater photos
    Ichthyologist William Longley and photographer Charles Martin use an autochrome camera and a raft full of explosive magnesium flah powder to illuminate the shallows of Florida's Dry Tortugas and make the first underwater colour photograph.

  • First high speed photography images

    Dr. Harold Edgerton works with nationla geographic to perfect high-speed stroboscopic photography , freezing on film the rapid movements of nature that elude the eye.

  • view of earth from moon

    view of earth from moon
    Taken by Lunar Orbiter the image reveals the first view of Earth from the moon. Shot from a distance of about 236,000 miles.

  • First Digital Camera Was Invented

    First Digital Camera Was Invented
    Steven Sasson finishes work on the worlds first digital camera. The device, about the size of a toaster, uses a new electronic sensor called a charged coupled device, or CCD, or a recording cassette.

  • Discovery of the sunken titanic

    Discovery of the sunken titanic
    Photographer Emroy Kristof accompanies ocean photographer Robert Ballard on a mission to discover the wreckage of the titanic. National Geographic publishes a major package on the discovery in its december 1985 issue.

  • Adobe Photoshop Released

    Adobe Photoshop Released
    In February 1990, Adobe systems released its first photo editing software package, Photoshop 1.0

  • First Camera Phone

    First Camera Phone
    Japanese electronics firm sharp introduces its J-Sh04, or J-phone, the first mobile phone to feature an integrated image sensor for taking digital photos.

  • Launch Of Instagram

    Launch Of Instagram
    In October 2010, Co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Streiger launched instagram. It is an online photo sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures, apply digital filters to them and share them with everyone.