As much as I love drawing, I do love photography. It helps me to capture a very fast moment that I could not possibly get by sketching. So what is photography? Some say that photography is a form of art that reproducing image of people, objects, animals, or places into printing materials or pixels. But I always like this definition: Painting with light.
Old day photography
What tool do you need? Of course the main tool would be the camera. Cameras have been through incredible developments since the first time it was invented. The first camera did not have any film. It had a small-shield box with lens and translucent screen on the other side. How the object would be capture, it had a small hole and the image traveled through the hole and the lens and it was stored on the screen. It was known as camera Obscura, usually it was used as a sketching device for artists.
Several years later, the inventors found a quality silver nitrate that changes its color when exposed to light. The photographers place objects on the paper dipped in silver nitrate and expose it to the sunlight. After a while the area covered under the object stayed white while the rest of the space turned black. However, the image formed was temporary, so the method did not last long.
Years gone by and decadeslater great improvement have been achieved. Some experiments were done using very different technique like Daguerre and calotype process, finally collodion, or the wet plate technique was universally accepted.
Nowadays, photography becomes more and more simple. It creates the possibility to capture special moments easily. Everyone could grab a camera and preserve their special moment with family and friends.
